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Margaret Atwood on Denman Island

Margaret Atwood — Tickets on sale tomorrow (Wednesday) and Saturday.

We hope that by now word has spread far and wide on Denman that Margaret Atwood is visiting. Here are further details. Ms. Atwood will ...
Margaret Atwood on Denman Island

Exciting News: Margaret Atwood Visits Denman Island!

Prepare yourselves, Denman Island residents, because the rumors are indeed true—Margaret Atwood is headed our way! Organized by the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival ...
Margaret Atwood on Denman Island

Introducing Margaret Atwood

by Stewart Goodings Let’s go back to 1966 for a moment. The Governor General’s Medal for poetry goes to a young 27 year old from ...
2024 Festival Authors

Announcing the 2024 Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival! Mark your Calendars!

by Stewart Goodings With the Festival only three months away, we are very pleased to announce the details of this year’s Festival. It’s taken 9 ...
January 6 2024 - Holly Hogan and Michael Crummey Readings

January 6 2024 – Holly Hogan and Michael Crummey Readings

Top Newfoundland authors coming to Denman Island by Stewart Goodings January 6, 2-4pm Two of Newfoundland’s most respected writers will be on Denman Island January ...
Commune

Book Launch for Des Kennedy’s new novel: Commune

Sunday November 5th, 2pm – Denman Hall Hello all R&W Festival supporters. This notice is to let you know about an upcoming event not linked ...
Grant Lawrence and Friends: An Evening of West Coast Stories and Songs

Grant Lawrence and Friends: An Evening of West Coast Stories and Songs

The Readers and Writers Festival is partnering with Concerts Denman to present a captivating evening of West Coast Stories and Songs at the Denman Island ...
Festival 2023 memories

Festival 2023 memories

by Stewart Goodings While they are still fresh, my memories of the 2023 version of the Denman Festival…from the opening by our Island Raconteur Des ...
Abraxas Anniversary Event with Edward Slingerland

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 ...
2023 Festival Workshops

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 ...
Less Than Six Months to Wait for Festival 2023!

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 ...
April 4th! - Spoken Word and Storytelling at the Denman Hall

April 4th! – Spoken Word and Storytelling at the Denman Hall

Spoken Word and Storytelling at the Denman Hall With Shane Koyczan and Alessandra Naccarato Get Your Tickets Here The Readers and Writers Festival invites you ...

Celebrate Abraxas’s 30th Anniversary

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Book) Love in the Time of Covid

(Book) Love in the Time of Covid

The need to read.  The urge to write. Neither of these instincts have been stifled by Covid-19.  But this lengthy pandemic has increased people’s desire ...
New Books by Former Denman Festival Authors, Part 2

New Books by Former Denman Festival Authors, Part 2

Following the article below, I’d now like to highlight the following six male authors who have successfully continued their very fine literary careers since participating ...
New Books by Former Denman Festival Authors, Part 1

New Books by Former Denman Festival Authors, Part 1

For many former Denman Readers and Writers Festival loyal fans, there’s a temptation to regard authors who have come to the festivals over the years ...
Michael Christie returns to Festival

Michael Christie returns to Festival

At our 2016 Festival, Michael Christie was a young up and coming novelist who read from his second novel If I Fall, If I Die …… a ...
A Sneak Preview of Festival 2020

A Sneak Preview of Festival 2020

Only six more months until Denman hosts the 18th Readers and Writers Festival! Our organizing committee has been hard at work lining up authors, and ...
New Books - November 2019

New Books – November 2019

Here is a literary question for Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival-goers ….. what do all the following writers have in common? ……..   Terry Fallis, ...
July 2019 Festival

July 2019 Festival

Lindsay Wong Lindsay Wong’s memoir, The Woo-Woo,  documents a stranger-than-fiction childhood surrounded by dysfunctional, profanity-loving adults.  The Wong family story intensifies with each turn of ...
Workshops at the Readers & Writers Festival

Workshops at the Readers & Writers Festival

This year the Readers & Writers Festival offers four dynamite workshops for those who want a little extra excitement in their lives!  Workshops have a ...
Writers --- the Denman Readers & Writers Festival Wants You!!!

Writers — the Denman Readers & Writers Festival Wants You!!!

Words matter.  So do titles …. We are the “Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival”.  I’ve looked at the names of similar book-related events across ...
2019 Festival Line-Up

2019 Festival Line-Up

Registration for Denman Festival Opens May 1 Mark your calendars, Festival supporters.  May 1 will be the day to begin registering for the 2019 edition ...
2018 Festival Authors

2018 Festival Authors

I’m Right and You’re an Idiot by James Hoggan Come and listen to James Hoggan, a PR expert and David Suzuki Foundation Chairperson, talk about ...
Main Stage Mania 2018

Main Stage Mania 2018

Well, ‘mania’ may be a touch melodramatic, but hey, literary license should be OK at a readers and writers festival, don’t you think? Denman’s literary ...

Workshop with Sheri-D Wilson

Workshop with Sheri-D Wilson, Spoken Word Artist from Calgary Festival 2018 brings the unparalleled opportunity to see, hear and work with the self-described “Mama of ...
Sheri D Wilson - Calgary's New Poet Laureate

Sheri D Wilson – Calgary’s New Poet Laureate

Congratulations to Sheri D Wilson, Calgary’s New Poet Laureate! See Sheri D this July during the Readers & Writers festival, July 19-22.  There will be ...
Writer's Workshop with Caroline Adderson

Writer’s Workshop with Caroline Adderson

Are You A Writer? Here’s a quiz for Denman Festival attendees:  if you answer “Yes” to at least one of the questions, I have a ...
Geoff Dembicki Book: Are We Screwed?

Geoff Dembicki Book: Are We Screwed?

Are We Screwed? A Millennial Perspective to Climate Change Geoff Dembicki reports for The Tyee. His work also appears in Vice, Foreign Policy and the New ...
2018 Denman Festival Authors

2018 Denman Festival Authors

Registration for Denman Festival opens May 1st As well as being International Workers’ Day, May 1st is the first day to register for the Denman ...
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