(registration - $40 - is required to reserve space for the Ilkay Silk workshop and the Jessica Grant reading)
Thursday May 13, 8 PM (Study Hall, Main Floor, McCain Hall, STU)
Poetpalooza!
Readings by local poets and writing groups with open mic.
Also featuring live acoustic jazz. See poster.
Friday May 14 (all events at the St
Thomas University Campus)
6:30 PM: “Just Desserts: New Books by
WFNB authors.” BHM 202, STU. Readings by Gerry Beirne, M. Travis
Lane, Corey Redekop, Kathy Mac, and others.
8:00 PM: Sally Armstrong “Getting the Story”: BMH 101, STU
Donations at the door.
Saturday May 15 (all events at the St Thomas University Campus)
8:30—10:00am, BMH 202: WFNB Annual General Meeting
10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break
10:30-noon, BMH 205 Workshop with Ilkay Silk, on Reading as
Performance (theatre arts techniques)
Noon-1:00: Barbeque Lunch ($10, please register), quad outside of BMH
1:30- 3:00, BMH 205: reading by Jessica Grant, author of Come,
Thou Tortoise, followed by a panel discussion with Jessica and
Carla Gunn (Amphibian) on the first novel, moderated by novelist Gerard Beirne (Turtle).
3:00-3:30: Coffee Break
3:30-5:00: Official Launch of Tony Tremblay's David Adams Richards
of the Miramichi, Conference
Room, Holy Cross Hall, STU.
6 pm - 10pm Awards Banquet, GMH Cafeteria
6:00 GMH Cafeteria: Meet and Greet (Cash Bar)
7:00 GMH Cafeteria: Literary Awards Banquet Buffet
7:45 Reading by Jessica Grant
8:30 WFNB thanks and Literary Competition Awards & Readings by
Winners
Sunday, May 16
10;00: Wrap up, Open Mic Reading, Ice House, UNB campus
For those wishing to stay overnight,
WFNB has booked a block of rooms at the UNB Summer Hotel, at McLeod
House: Single room (one single bed) - $32+HST/night;
Double room (two single beds) - $24+HST/person/night. To register, email stay@unb.ca or call Misty McLaughlin @ (506) 453 4800.
http://www.unbf.ca/housing/summer/sresidence.htm
