Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

Home on the Strange: Chronicles of Motherhood, Mayhem and Matters of the Heart

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Change

Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Abraxas Anniversary Event with Edward Slingerland

PLEASE JOIN US for an early Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival three-part special event on Saturday, May 20 in honour of the 30th anniversary of Abraxas, Denman Island’s independent ...
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2023 Festival Workshops

by Stewart Goodings As well as the solo sessions, Main Stage panels, and five day intensive The Writing Week, Denman’s Readers and Writers Festival always offers small group workshops for ...
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Less Than Six Months to Wait for Festival 2023!

…by Stewart Goodings And what a dazzling literary line-up we have ready for loyal Denman Festival fans! Here’s a quick glimpse of the outstanding authors we will welcome to Denman ...
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2023 Festival Authors

Angie Abdou

Omar El Akkad

Seth Klein

Tsering Yangzom Lama

Susan J. Lundy

Suzette Mayr

Dr. Bruce McIvor

Tolu Oloruntoba

Ruth Ozeki

Britt Wray

JP McLean

2023 Festival Book Reviews

What Strange Paradise

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

Each One a Furnace

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

The Sleeping Car Porter

Home on the Strange: Chronicles of Motherhood, Mayhem and Matters of the Heart

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Change

Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Latest Festival News

Abraxas Anniversary Event with Edward Slingerland

2023 Festival Workshops

Less Than Six Months to Wait for Festival 2023!

The Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival is small and intimate. The Festival brings together an invited group of talented Canadian authors with readers and aspiring writers for two and a half days of literary adventures.
Read our mission statement.

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2023 Festival Authors

2023 Festival Book Reviews

Latest Festival News

The Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival is small and intimate. The Festival brings together an invited group of talented Canadian authors with readers and aspiring writers for two and a half days of literary adventures.Read our mission statement.

Sign up to receive e-news from the Festival!

Sign up to receive e-news from the Festival!

The Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival is small and intimate. The Festival brings together an invited group of talented Canadian authors with readers and aspiring writers for two and a half days of literary adventures.
Read our mission statement.