The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several 91亚色 professors and alumni are on the bill.
91亚色 alumnus (right) (BA 鈥95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards (Key Porter Books, 2010) Saturday, Oct. 23 at 9pm at the IFOA. The event will feature three of the book鈥檚 co-authors Karen Bliss, Nick Krewen and Jason Schneider, along with special guests Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo 鈥 who wrote the book鈥檚 foreword 鈥 singer-songwriter Dan Hill and musician Emm Gryner.
The following day, another 91亚色 alumnus (BA Spec. Hons. 鈥81) will be at the IFOA as one of three authors participating in The Word Doctors Are In: Master Class on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 11am. Ricci will speak about 鈥淲hat Every Writer Should Know鈥.
Poet and 91亚色 creative writing alumna (Hons. BA 鈥00), editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (Exile Editions, 2007) and author of the poetry collection Junkman's Daughter (Exile Editions, 2004), will read from her latest collection A Good Time Had by All (Exile Editions, 2010). Strimas, who works at Quill & Quire magazine and for the University of Guelph's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, will read on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 1pm and again on Friday, Oct. 29 at 8pm.
91亚色 English Professor (left) will read from his latest book, , Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 8pm, along with the other finalists for the Rogers Writers鈥 Trust Fiction Prize.
91亚色 English Professor (right) will be part of a roundtable discussion with IFOA Ontario in Milton Wednesday, Oct. 27, and will read from her newest work Friday, Oct. 29 at 8pm at the IFOA in Toronto.
The IFOA will once again bring writers of contemporary world literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions and public book signings from Oct. 20 to 30.
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