The Kingston WritersFest returns for 2019 with their most diverse set of events yet.
List of events:
Treaties and Ashes: Stories of the Indigenous Experience
September 25 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
An Evening with Michael Crummey
September 25 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Writing Outside the Box: Experiments in Form
September 26 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Ghosts, Truths, and the Power Within
September 26 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Diving Into the Planet
September 26 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Personal Poetry
September 26 @ 9:30 am – 10:45 am
I Love the Beautiful Strange Way You Speak to Me: Playwriting *SOLD OUT*
September 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Without Apology: YA Fiction
September 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Finding Freedom: Beyond the Binary
September 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Words and Pix: The Graphic Novel *SOLD OUT*
September 26 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Wolf Music
September 26 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Visual Literacy: Using Images to Enrich Your Writing
September 26 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Two Authors, Two Women, Two Flights: Fiction
September 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Skeptics and Seekers: What is Spiritual Living?
September 26 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Writing 101
September 26 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
International Marquee
September 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Top 20 Writing Gaffes You Can Catch Yourself
September 27 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
All Things Observed
September 27 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
The Odd Couple: Fiction
September 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Book Lovers’ Lunch
September 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Power of the Pitch: Find Your Story’s Narrative Hooks
September 27 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Women Who’ve Had Enough: Fiction
September 27 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dialogue
September 27 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Identity Through Poetry: Who is Bruce Kauffman Screening
September 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Robertson Davies Dinner
September 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Voaden Prize Reading
September 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Choosing Your Words
September 28 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Spills, Thrills, and Reading Wills: The Fiction of Fear
September 28 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Eternity in an Hour: The Power of Short Fiction
September 28 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Chop Suey Nation: The Exceptional Fusion of Canada, China, and Food
September 28 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Meaning Schmeaning: Writing as a Journey
September 28 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
The Fiction of Guy Gavriel Kay: Where Fantasy and History Collide
September 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
The Decisive Moment: Writing Great Scenes
September 28 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
The Time Has Come: Achieving Gender Equality
September 28 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Reality Bubble
September 28 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Writing Character and Voice
September 28 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
The Big Idea: Is Democracy Doomed?
September 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Literary pub (s)crawl
September 28 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Author! Author!
September 28 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
To Be Here: Writing Place
September 29 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Hope Matters
September 29 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Stitching in Time: Historical Fiction
September 29 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Visual Storytelling
September 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
The Long Table
September 29 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Beyond the First Draft: Polishing Your Work
September 29 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Fighting for Their Rights: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters in Early Canada
September 29 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
And the Journey Continues
September 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Lady Franklin Writes: Where Historians Dare Not Go
September 29 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Sicilian Awakenings: Fiction
September 29 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Yoga and the Art of Relaxed Writing
September 29 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
For more information, including tickets, please see the link below.