Press Kit : Cabot Trail Writers Festival
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Cabot Trail Writers Festival Announces 2012 Lineup
(North River Bridge, NS) The Cabot Trail Writers Festival, this year running September 28 to 30, is thrilled to announce its 2012 lineup of authors.
With a distinctly historical flavour, Wayne Johnston, Kate Beaton, and Stephen Kimber capably represent the wide diversity of writing in Canada, and will provide readers and writers with a unique and exhilarating weekend of readings, workshops, and discussion.
Wayne Johnston is the internationally celebrated author of best-sellers The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (on the Globe and Mail's list of the 100 most important Canadian books ever published), the memoir Baltimore's Mansion (winner of the ultra-prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction) and, most recently, the Giller Prize nominee A World Elsewhere. Wayne recently won the $25,000 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Prize, which recognises his entire body of work.
Kate Beaton, who hails from Mabou, is an exciting young writer and graphic artist who enjoys a huge on-line readership for her razor-witted, historically charged comics. She has been published in such magazines as the Paris Review, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper's Magazine.
Her book, Hark! A Vagrant, is a joyous and often irreverent journey through history. It is the winner of the 2012 Doug Wright Canadian Cartooning Award for Best Book, and is on Quill and Quire's top-five list of Book of the Year, Non-fiction. As a graphic artist, Kate brings a new dimension to the Festival.
Stephen Kimber is an award-winning writer, editor, and broadcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the novel of Africville, Reparations, short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash. Stephen brings a wealth of experience from a career spanning the world of writing. A Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, Canada, Stephen currently teaches creative non-fiction.
Visit the Festival web site at cabottrailwritersfestival.com for more information.
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