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.
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Festival News

Get Up Close and Personal with an Author
One of the compliments over the years that so many of our audience members pay the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival is that they actually get to meet the ...
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Registration Opens Soon for The Writing Week
For several years, the Denman Festival’s five day intensive writing program has been attracting aspiring writers from our island, as well as many places close at hand and far afield. ...
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Back on Track!
Since March 2020, the Readers and Writers Festival literary bus has been stalled, stuck in a Covid cul-de-sac, like a masked actor eager to go on stage, but waiting in ...
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