Twenty guest authors will converge on Whistler October 14-16 2010 for the ninth Whistler Readers and Writers Festival.
They will trash-talk, chit-chat, workshop, and jam their way through 15 different sessions that are geared towards getting behind, not just the book-covers, but the brains of best-loved books, lighting the fire under aspiring writers’ butts and generally fuelling the stoke of participants’ creative practice.
The Festival’s evening events have the highest entertainment value, kicking off with the launch of Leslie Anthony’s new book, White Planet: A Mad Dash through the Modern Global Ski Culture, at the Whistler Library on Thursday October 14, presented by Pasta Lupino and Burnt Stew Computer Solutions.
Maxx Fish hosts its third Pecha Kucha night on Friday October 15, with special guest, Spoken Word artist C.R. Avery, widely hailed as Bob Dylan in the body of Iggy Pop.
Writer couples Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds, and Terence Young and Patricia Young offer a literary take on marriage counselling in Write, Fight, Love, at the Whistler Library on Saturday at 5pm, dishing the dirt on what happens when someone else’s (aka your spouse’s) characters bear an uncanny resemblance to you…
The Gala Jam on Saturday night gives Whistler’s Stephen Vogler the unholy challenge of wrangling a packed-stage of writers, with Kathy Page, Merilyn Simonds, Wayne Grady, Russell Wangersky, Brian Brett, Kate Pullinger, Jenn Farrell, Terence Young, Patricia Young and Caroline Adderson taking turns at the microphone at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre.
Workshops for writers are concentrated into 2 streams of programming on Saturday, October 16, which attendees can sample, slip-stream or submerge into.
Where Traditional and Digital Media Collide explores what new media means for established and emerging writers with workshops on how to podcast, twitter up a storm, and blog to promote your book or business, as well as panel sessions on new ways of telling stories and the state of book publishing today.
Crafting a Great Story pulls in an all-star team of Michel Beaudry, writer-in-residence Brian Brett, Sara Leach and Rebecca Wood Barrett to tackle the nuts and bolts of writing, tracking inspiration down, fuelling stories with conflict, then massaging drafts and your ego as your own editor.
Tickets are now on sale on www.theviciouscircle.ca . The Library sessions are free. Seminars are $25. Early bird registration (20% discount) is available until Sep 19 for anyone willing to go all the way, and sign up for the full-day intensive (5 seminars plus lunch for just $110.)
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