Kate Inglis, who will host the “Breakfast with local Young Writers” event, is a writer and photographer and lives on the far eastern coastline of Nova Scotia where she was born. She aided in the founding of “Glow in the Woods,” a collaborative blog for baby-lost parents which has established an affectionate and embracing online community, and has also been a founding contributor to “Shutter Sisters.” Her first novel, “The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods”, was published in November 2009 with a second edition being released earlier this year, and has been acclaimed as “a spirited tale, gorgeously rendered,” by January Magazine. It is from this novel for young people that Kate Inglis will be reading, which will be closely followed by a workshop for young writers, all taking place at Cranewood on Main St.

Kevin O’Brien, who will read from his work “An Apostle for the Arts – Oscar Wilde in Canada” at 10:30 a.m., was an English professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS, for thirty four years beginning in 1966. With his research interests in the biographies of literary figures, he has published numerous biographical studies of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Robert Harborough Sherard (1861-1943), and Irene Osgood (1869-1922), among others. The new edition of the work from which he will be reading will be published in the summer of 2010.

Parallel to this reading will be the performance of “The Importance of the House Beautiful – Oscar Wilde in Moncton”, a new play written by Festival by the Marsh Artistic Producer Ron Kelly Spurles. Spurles has based the play on true details from Wilde’s 1882 visit to Canada, creating a comedic love story in the very style of Wilde’s plays. Originally produced for the Capitol Theatre’s “Resurgo Redux” Festival in June, it is now being remounted to be presented alongside Dr. O’Brien’s talk on Wilde’s visit to Canada.
At 11:45 a.m., the fest continues with Beth Powning and her writer’s workshop at the Boultenhouse Heritage Centre. Currently living in Sussex, NB, and considered one of Eastern Canada’s rising literary stars, Beth Powning is the author of two novels, “The Hatbox Letters” (2004) and “The Sea Captain’s Wife” (2010), the memoir, “Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss” (1999), and the non-fiction essay “Edge Seasons” (2005), among other significant works.

Charlie Scobie, who reads at 1 p.m. at the Boultenhouse, is a native of Scotland, and taught at McGill University in Montreal before taking up the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at Mount Allison University beginning in 1972. Retiring in 1998, Scobie has written many books and articles in the field of Biblical Studies, but has equally contributed several books on Maritime history, including a study on “The Father of Canadian Literature” entitled “Roberts Country: Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and the Tantramar”, which was published in 2008.

At 4:30 p.m. the “Dining with Writers” event takes place at Cranewood. At this event members of the public will have the chance to interact with the featured authors and other book literary enthusiasts. Beth Powning will follow the dining with a reading at the Boultenhouse Heritage Centre at 6 p.m. from her novel “The Ship Captain’s Wife”.

This reading will then be followed by another at 7 p.m. at the same location by author Lisa Moore. Moore, who lives in St.John’s Newfoundland, has published several collections of work, her second of which, a collection of stories, “Open” (2002), was nominated for the Giller Prize. Her first novel, “Alligator” (2005), was also nominated for the Giller Prize, was long-listed for the 2007 IMPAC Award, and won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award for the Caribbean and Canada Region. Her most recent work, the novel “February” (2009), draws on the story of the oil rig Ocean Ranger which sank off the coast of Newfoundland during the Valentine’s Day storm of 1982.
The Writer’s Fest Day closes with a reception at Joey’s Restaurant at 10 p.m. which will feature the Festival Poet-in-Residence Kenzie Reid. Kenzie is a nineteen-year-old writer from Sackville, NB, who currently studies at the University of Waterloo and who has often drawn inspiration for her poems, in one way or another, from the Tantramar Marsh, She has participated in several youth poetry events in both Sackville and Moncton. The reception will be accompanied with original music by Mount Allison University music student Landon Braverman, who is gaining a reputation as one the regions top up and coming songwriter/singers.

Writers Fest Day is sponsored by Sackville SaveEasy and is presented in collaboration with Festival by the Marsh. For more details please phone (506) 364-2179, toll free 1-866-890-6329 or visit www.festivalbythemarsh.ca.

Award-winning short story writer Tamas Dobozy reads from his collection and from new work. Sponsored by the Canada Council and Mount Allison Canadian Studies Program and Department of English. Everyone welcome! Owens Art Gallery at 4:00 pm

 October 14-

Creative Couples in Conversation- Joseph Boyden and Amanda Boyden, together with Herménégilde Chiasson and Marcia Babineau in conversation with CBC host Shelagh Rogers.  Everyone welcome!  Owens Art Gallery at 7:30pm

October 14-

Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading (CAN-U) presents an intimate and interactive evening with Donna Morrissey, author of “Kit’s Law”, “Downhill Chance”, “Sylvanus Now” and “What They Wanted”.  Tickets are $15.00.  Proceeds from this event will support adult literacy in Cumberland County.  Tantramar Theatre, 98 Victoria St., Amherst from 7-9 pm. 
  

October 15-

Reading by novelist Amanda Boyden, author of “Dirty Little Pretty” and “Babylon Rolling”. Sponsored by Mount Allison University, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic & Research. Everyone welcome!  Owens Art Gallery at 4:00 pm

October 15-

Reading by Giller Prize winning novelist Joseph Boyden,author of “Born with a Tooth” (short stories), “Three Day Road” (novel), and “Through Black Spruce” (novel). Sponsored by the Canada Council and Mount Allison University (Office of the Provost & Vice President Academic &  Research). Everyone welcome! Owens Art Gallery 7:00 pm

October 15-

The Frye Festival announces their bilingual Community Reads series with Rawi Hage, author of Giller and Governor General’s award nominated “De Niro’s Game”, and his new book “Cockroach”.  Everyone welcome!  Moncton City Hall lobby at 7:00 pm.   

 October 21-

Deborah Ellis, author of numerous children’s books including the award winning “Breadwinner Trilogy” will read from her works at Crabtree Auditorium at 7:00 pm. Everyone welcome!

 October 28-

Mount Allison University Professor Dan Vyleta will be reading from his book “Pavel and I” at the Owens Art Gallery at 7:00 pm.  Everyone welcome!

9:30 AM Sackville Band Stand- Young people read from their works  with MC Sheree Fitch

10:  AM Sackville Band Stand- Authors K.V. Johansen and Sheree Fitch read from their books for young people.

1:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Gerard Beirne and Harry Thurston with Thaddeus Holownia read from their newest works.

3:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Gerard Beirne novel workshop.  Limited enrollment.

5:30 PM The Olive Branch- “Dining with Writers” supper.  $25 per person.

8:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Bernice Morgan, Sheree Fitch and Mark Blagrave read from their works.

9:30 PM Struts Gallery- Open Mike Poetry and Performance by Tanya Davis

 This collection solidifies her rightful place in the contemporary literary landscape.  Passionately personal and deftly political, her keen observation of the nature of humankind beckons and invites us to a view from within.  It is there that we may bear witness to and resist whatever threatens the human spirit.

 Please join us as we celebrate the publication of this exceptional collection.

Released this month by Orca Books, “Nightwalker” has already been picked for VOYA’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy List:
Johansen’s book thus joins a small and distinguished list, including titles by award-winning British authors such as Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones.

For more information see the author’s website: www.pippin.ca

Torrie and the Snake-Prince is a fantasy novel for children aged 8-12, with appeal to fantasy lovers of all ages. Torrie and the Snake-Prince tells of the adventures of Torrie, oldest of the Old Things of the Wild Forest, and Wren, a lame pedlar-girl, when the mysterious minstrel Rookfeather sends them to rescue Prince Liasis, who has been kidnapped by a sorcerer and turned into a snake.

Earlier books in the Torrie series include Torrie and the Pirate-Queen, which received the 2006 Lilla Sterling Award from the Canadian Authors’ Association and was a nominated title for the 2006 Silver Birch and Diamond Willow Awards, and Torrie and the Firebird, which was recently named one of the top ten children’s novels of 2006 by the Ontario Library Association. More about the books is available on the author’s website: www.pippin.ca