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Friday, September 18th:
| Event | Location | Time/Date |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Pencil Writing Consultations | Eden Mills Community Hall, 104 York St., Eden Mills | 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. |
| Breaking into YA | Virtual | 3:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Opening Night: Art and Truth | Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon St, Guelph | 6:00-9:00 p.m. |
Saturday, September 19th:
| Event | Location | Time/Date |
|---|---|---|
| A Series of Mysterious Events: Crafting stories readers can’t put down | Virtual | 10:00-11:00 a.m. |
| Mastering the Short Story: You wrote a story, now what? | Virtual | 11:30 a.m-12:30 p.m. |
| Moving Through Writers’ Block | Virtual | 1:00-2:30 p.m. |
| Conservation Through Storytelling | Guelph Public Library, 100 Norfolk St., Guelph | 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
| Tell Me the Truth: Creative non-fiction that sings | Rockwood Library, 121 Rockmosa Dr., Rockwood | 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
| Talking Short Stories | Halton Hills Public Library, 17 River St., Acton | 2:30-4:00 p.m. |
| LitRPG with Tao Wong | Guelph Public Library, 100 Norfolk St., Guelph | 3:00-4:00 p.m. |
| Create Poetry Through Collage | Rockwood Library, 121 Rockmosa Dr., Rockwood | 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Sunday, September 20th:
| The Meadow | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | What to Do… When We Don’t Know What to Do Hosted by: Elizabeth Renzetti Author: Gillian Deacon |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | When Voices Dare Hosted by: Kim Echlin Authors: Su Chang, Ashraf Zaghal, Dr. Joanne Liu |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Family Secrets Hosted by: January Rogers Authors: Kevin Hardcastle, Wayne Johnston, Amanda Peters |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Linwood Barclay in Conversation Hosted by: Greg Rhyno Author: Linwood Barclay |
| The Cottage | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Guelph School of Environmental Sciences Set: What Lies Beneath Hosted by: Madhur Anand, Professor and Director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph Authors: Sue Sinclair, Merritt R. Turetsky, Dan Werb |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Life in Verse Hosted by: Elizabeth May Authors: Sakiru Abedayo, Qurat Dar, Sanna Wani |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | The Art of the Short Hosted by: Catherine Bush Authors: Alison Gadsby, Nadja Lubiw-Hazard and Chanel Sutherland |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Housing and Humanity Hosted by: Conor Russell Authors: Leilani Farha, Priya Guns, Jeff Miller |
| The Clearing | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Spotlight on Guelph Hosted by: Jeremy Luke Hill Authors: Tamara Jong, J. Lorito, K.A. Mielke |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Emerge! Writers to Watch Hosted by: Melanie Flake and Libby Johnstone Authors: Tessa Fleming, Charliee Greenbank, Annabel Griffiths Fitzsimmons, Roukia Ali, Ariesha Mais, Lawson Hannaford + “Read at the Fringe” winners, to be announced mid-August. |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Coming of Age in Canadian YA Hosted by: Bridget Raymundo Authors: Kelley Armstrong, Jackie Khalilieh, Kai Cheng Thom |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Myth, Magic and the Search for True Love Hosted by: Melanie D. Marshall Authors: Kelly Anderson, Bar Fridman-Tell, Colin McAdam |
| Willow Hill | |
|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Our Stories, Our Rules Hosted by: Amil Niazi, author of Life After Ambition Authors: Stacey May Fowles, Therese Estacion, Rachel Phan |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Oh, the Horror! Hosted by: Chris Krawczyk Authors: Karma Brown, Nick Cutter, Emily A. Weedon |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Hearts and Homicides Hosted by: Kayleigh Platz Authors: Frankie Scott (Zoe Whittall), Vikki Vansickle, Uzma Jalaluddin |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | The Geography of Grief Hosted by: Kali Pearson Authors: Mai Nguyen, Nicholas Herring, Michelle Porter |
Children’s Programming
| Robert Munsch Children’s Area | |
|---|---|
| 11:00-11:30 a.m. | Storytelling Brad Woods |
| 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Every Space Between Naseem Hrab |
| 1:15-1:45 p.m. | Marian’s Big Dig Laura Bontje |
| 2:00-2:30 p.m. | Racc Pack: The Bins Breakout Stephanie Cooke |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Storytellers Campfire James Nowak |
Workshops & Audience Participation
| The Lawn | |
|---|---|
| 12:30-1:00 p.m. | The Art of Storytelling with Brad Woods |
| 1:00-1:30 p.m. | Open Mic |
| 3:00-3:45 p.m. | Children’s and Teen Poetry Contest Winners |
| 4:00-4:30 p.m. | Open Mic |
| Village Loom | |
|---|---|
| 11:00-12:00 p.m. | Land and Language |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Breathing into Poetry: Finding Words Within |