Well-known Vancouver author, Caroline Adderson will lead the one week intensive writing workshop known as The Writing Week at the 2017 Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival. Caroline is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories, as well as fifteen books for young readers. She is also the editor and co-contributor of … Read more
For Festival attendees who write or want to write, there will be five opportunities at this year’s Festival to get some intensive advice from published authors. Steven Price, the acclaimed Victoria-based author, will again, for the third year in a row, lead The Writing Week (formerly known as the Writer in Residence program). This is a five day … Read more
Denman Island, get ready to host another group of extraordinary Canadian authors in 2016 during our annual summer festival. Expect top quality writing and information on hard-hitting topics of historical importance, political activism and contemporary urgency. Also expect imaginative fiction, creative expression – plus an accordion! Diverse voices, genres and perspectives will mix and mingle … Read more
Nationally acclaimed author Wayne Grady will be on Denman Island February 28 in the Back Hall to read from his intriguing novel, “Emancipation Day” which was a best seller in 2013 and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. He will also read excerpts from his yet to be published new novel and answer questions about both … Read more
At the 2015 Festival, visiting author Aislinn Hunter generously used her Festival honorarium to sponsor a poetry contest for the best poem on the subject of the planet, environment, earth or animals in peril. The prize, a $500 gift certificate to Abraxas Books, with four runners-up receiving the opportunity to have feedback from Aislinn on their … Read more
Congratulations to Anakana Schofield who has been named one of the finalists for the prestigious $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her book, Martin John. Read more from the Vancouver Sun story here.
The Books Matter Prize …… win $500 in books by writing a poem about the planet / the environment / the earth or animals in peril The Books Matter Prize is a $500 gift certificate to Abraxas Books to be awarded to the best unpublished poem on the subject of the planet / the environment / the earth … Read more
Des Kennedy moderates a panel discussion on “Place” with Michael Crummey, Fred Stenson, Lee Maracle and Renee Saklikar On Sunday morning, July 19, the concluding event of the 2015 Readers and Writers Festival brings together an all-star cast of authors to probe the power of place. Place: elements of rootedness, of dispossession and reclamation. Illusions … Read more
Canadian first nations poet and author, Lee Maracle, from Toronto will be joining the list of renowned authors at this year’s festival. She is a prolific writer having published over 10 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction as well as being an expert on First Nations culture and history. She will be the first solo … Read more
Saturday, July 18 at 7:30 pm “No sensible man engages unprepared in a fencing match of words with a woman”, proclaims 20th century writer, Wilkie Collins. Collins demonstrated a thorough understanding of the power of women and their words and so should we. Join Jo-Ann Roberts, the well-known former host of CBC radio’s All Points West, as … Read more