McLaughlin Literary Festival

Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 10:00am

Parkwood Estate
270 Simcoe St. N.
Oshawa, ON
L1G 4T5

The Friends of the Oshawa Public Library present the first McLaughlin Literary Festival on Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The format will see authors reading for roughly 20 minutes and then book signing. Blue Heron Books of Uxbridge will be selling titles written by the participating authors and attendees will have a chance to meet and mingle with the writers.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

10 a.m. Opening Ceremonies

10:10 to 11:30 a.m. Local talent, including Sarah Caterina reading from In the Shadows

11:05 a.m. Andrew J. Borkowski reading from Copernicus Avenue

Noon Mary Rose Donnelly reading from Great Village

12:20 p.m. Lilian Nattel reading from The Singing Fire

12:40 p.m. Karen Connelly reading from Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

1 p.m. C.S. Richardson reading from The End of the Alphabet

1:20 p.m. Judy Fong Bates reading from The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir

1:40 p.m. Emily White reading from Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude

2 p.m. Susanna Kearsley reading from The Rose Garden

2:20 p.m. Tom Taylor reading from Brock's Agent

2:40 p.m. Janice Keefer reading from Ladies Lending Library

3 p.m. Helen Humphreys reading from The Reinvention of Love

3:20 p.m. Kate Taylor reading from A Man in Uniform

3:45 to 4:45 p.m. Local talent to be announced

4:45 p.m. Closing ceremonies

For further details, please see http://durhamregion.com/what%27s%20on/article/1077099--first-mclaughlin-....