An Afternoon with the Governor Generals!

Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 2:00pm

Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront
2 Princess Street
The Islandview Room
Kingston, ON
K7L 1A2

Come to Kingston on Sunday January 20th for a winter WritersFest event. Three winners or nominees from the 2012 Governor Generals literary awards will grace our Islandview stage in a series of conversations with past GG luminaries. Readings and conversations will be followed by tea, sweets and signings.

Tickets are on sale now (a great present for the readers on your list).
General admission: $12.50/$16.00 onsite

Novelist Linda Spalding (GG for fiction, 2012) talks with Diane Schoemperlen (GG for fiction for Forms of Devotion, 1998) about the personal family story behind The Purchase, the tale of an abolitionist Quaker who trades a horse for a slave.

Biographer Ross King (GG for nonfiction, 2012), author of Leonardo and The Last Supper, discusses the making and preservation of one of the world's most famous paintings with Merilyn Simonds (GG nonfiction finalist for The Convict Lover , 1996).

A. F. Moritz (GG poetry finalist, 2012) talks with Steven Heighton (GG poetry finalist for The Ecstasy of Skeptics, 1995) about archetypes and the advent of a new age, as expressed in his poetry collection The New Measures.

More information can be found on the Kingston WritersFest website.