Board of the Kingston WritersFest pulls the plug on the sixteen-year-old annual event
Ticket sales accounted for 14% of the festival's revenue in 2024.
A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Ticket sales accounted for 14% of the festival's revenue in 2024.
Both books provide salient warnings for the perils our current distrustful, paranoid, and misinformation-saturated culture throws up.
“When you look back in fifty years on the great writers in Canadian literature, I think he’s going to have to be included in that.”
Even in a year fraught with anxiety and discord, writers connected with readers to provide succour, solace, entertainment, and provocation.
Bollen has concocted a scenario that deftly upends traditional power structures.
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One thing Crowther does accentuate is Parker's versatility.
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