The Elora Writers’ Festival’s 19th season will again feature six Canadian authors reading their work.
The Festival will return once more to the Aboyne Hall of the Wellington County Museum on May 27.
The 2012 Festival lineup includes a 2011 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award winner, a Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award winner, two CBC Literary Contest winners, an acclaimed scriptwriter turned novelist and a historian who has turned our Canadian past into the stuff of bestsellers.
Authors include Robert Hough, Ken McGoogan, Keith Ross Leckie, Howard Shrier, Erin Bow and Carolyn Smart.
Festival organizing committee member Michael Hale attributes the success of the festival to many attributes.
“Being read to, say, on a warm, late spring afternoon by some of the most entertaining writers in the country, then plied with wine and appetizers and gentle jazz; then joining the authors in a relaxing few hours of dining and more drinking … it must have something going for it,” said Hale.
The Elora Writers’ Festival takes place on May 27 at the Wellington County Musuem from 1 to 4pm with dinner to follow. Tickets for readings are $15 in advance, $17.50 at the door and $70 for the readings and dinner. All tickets are available from Roxanne’s Reflections in Fergus.
