Mark your calendars! With the 2025 Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival just a few months away, we are ready to unveil the exciting details of this year’s event. After nearly a year of dedicated planning, the Festival Committee is proud to present a lineup that promises to captivate, inspire, and engage our community … Read more
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 Writing Week have included Jack Hodgins, Steven Galloway, Steven Price, and for the last four years, Caroline Adderson. This year, the Denman Festival is proud … Read more
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 authors we invite to the Festival….. whether it’s over coffee, at a meal in the Back Hall, sitting on the grass in front of the … Read more
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 the wings, the curtain resolutely closed. Mixing my metaphors, I know, but that’s what happens when plans for the Readers and Writers Festival get frustrated … Read more