Thank you, authors, audience, and sponsors, for making Kingston WritersFest 2009 such a resounding success.
We started in style on Wednesday, September 23, with Margaret Atwood's astounding dramatic and musical launch of The Year of the Flood.
We continued through Saturday, September 26, at the Holiday Inn Waterfront with some of the best writers working in Canada today - recent award-winners, this year's Giller nominees, and the must-reads of tomorrow.
All together, some 3500 book-lovers from Kingston and as far away as Australia and Trinidad attended WritersFest. More than half of our events were sold out, and some festival-goers took in as many as 14 events!
A complete list of 2009 Events and Profiles of all our authors is still posted (see above left). Check out our Author's Reading List and our Dewey Diva Book Club Best Picks.
Mark your calendars now for Kingston WritersFest 2010, which will be held September 22-25 at the Holiday Inn Waterfront. Watch this space next summer for news of our 2010 lineup of authors and events.
If you'd like to become a sponsor or volunteer, please contact us at info@kingstonwritersfest.ca.
See you next September, when we hope you'll join us again for four days of bookish delight and inspiration in Canada's most literary town.