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

The Writing Week with Angie Abdou

The Writing Week with Angie Abdou

For several years, the Denman Festival’s five day intensive writing program has been attracting aspiring writers from all over BC and further afield.  The renowned authors who have led The ...
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Get Up Close and Personal with an Author

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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Back on Track!

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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