Writers' Conference in Barrie
On May 22, the UPC-sponsored L3 Writers’ Conference will take place at Barrie North Collegiate at 110 Grove Street East in Barrie, Ontario. The reading of four Canadian authors will take place at 7 p.m. in the collegiate auditorium.
The readers are Giller Prize Winner (and co-founder of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and author of The Polished Hoe), Austin Clarke; Governor General’s Award Winner, Joy Kogawa (author of the ground-breaking novel, Obasan), Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award Winner and young people’s author, Eric Walters, and Bruce Meyer (professor with the UPC and author of twenty-seven books including The Golden Thread and Heroes).
Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students, and $5.00 for Elementary Students, and are available through Barrie North Collegiate (badduono@mail.scdsb.on.ca), Pages and Turner Bookstore on
123 Dunlop Street E. in downtown Barrie, or at the door.
The L3 Writers’ Conference also includes a day-long series of writers’ workshops at Barrie North Collegiate featuring UPC Professors Bruce Meyer and Mark Jacquemain as well as Lauren Carter, Damon Shareski, Michael Callaghan, Megan Strimas, Journey Prize winner Matt Shaw, Roger Bell, and keynote speakers William Bell and Ting-Xing Ye. The workshop runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For more information on the workshop, contact Mr. Brian Adduono at badduono@mail.scdsb.on.ca. Brian is a teacher at Barrie North
Collegiate and the brainchild behind the iDeology Program for Simcoe County at Barrie North Collegiate.
The iDeology Program has been sponsored and or supported by the UPC at Georgian College, Pages and Turner Bookstore, Penguin Books Canada, and the Simcoe County Board of Education.
Come out and enjoy hearing some of the Canada’s outstanding writers at this major event in Barrie’s literary and cultural calendar.
Posted in Writing Events on May 19, 2008
