Port Medway Readers’ Festival 22-Jul-2017:
Darren Greer
Darren Greer’s fiction has looked at Nova Scotian communities from both sides of the tracks, from the very gritty lives of Just Beneath My Skin to the privileged family of last year’s Advocate. A writer of social conscience and deep compassion, Greer is generous to both characters and readers. Strange Ghosts, his books of personal essays, is unpretentious and warm, and reveals that rarity in Canada, a writer who loves writing about the visual arts. His poetry, journalism and short fiction have been published in The Gay and Lesbian Harvard Review, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Bywards Magazine, The Found Poetry Review, The Ottawa Citizen, Found Press,and Maclean’s Magazine. Just Beneath My Skin received the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and the Toronto Star has called his work, “heartfelt, searing, and sad — and wholly captivating.”
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Port Medway Readers’ Festival 8-Jul-2017:
Helen Humphreys
When a fine writer is naturally curious, her lucky readers get to reap the benefits of her research and inquiry. Helen Humphreys has written about nature and history; her books range from stories of rivers (The Frozen Thames and, in The River, the Napanee) to bestselling novels set in a variety of times and worlds, from 1930s Toronto (Leaving Earth), to wartime England (Coventry and The Evening Chorus), and 19th century Paris (The Reinvention of Love). A multi-award-winning novelist and poet, she’s a master of unadorned prose, and a terrific storyteller. Quill and Quire wrote of Nocturne, her memoir about the loss of her brother, “a stunning book, heartfelt without being maudlin, and deceptively devastating.”
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The annual Queens County Fair runs for five days from 20-Sep to 24-Sep-2016 with Draft Horse Show Classes and Pulls, Oxen Classes and Pulls with log yarding competitions and a relay race for the oxen.
The Light horses compete in riding classes as well as gaming classes.
Several Farms bring their beef cattle to show off their product.
The Street Parade is on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 at 2pm.
There is something for all ages to enjoy while helping to celebrate our local agricultural Heritage.
Click for the Queens County Fair program and the Fair Grounds layout.
The 2016 Queens County Fair parade is held on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 from 2pm to about 4pm.
The parade runs through Hwy 8 in Caledonia.
Please note: there is NO through traffic during the parade!
Come early to grab a good spot along the highway!
See here for Queens County Fair details.
The Port Medway Readers’ Festival 2016 – one of Canada’s premier literary festivals – takes place in July & August/2016.
This year’s authors include
Events are held at the Old Meeting House on 167 Long Cove Rd, Port Medway, starting at 7pm and are CAD 20.– each.
For ticketing see here.
More information about the authors and the Port Medway Reader’s Festival click the website or Facebook page.
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Port Medway Readers’ Festival 20-Aug-2016:
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin is no stranger to the Readers’ Festival, to the Port Medway Old Meeting House, or to anyone who reads and cares about American journalism. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963, where he has reported on everything from desegregation to Conrad Black’s peerage and shopping at Frenchy’s. His political light verse is one of the delights of The Nation, and his memoir, About Alice, a much beloved bestseller. This summer, Random House will bring out Jackson, 1964, his collection of fifty years of writings on race in America.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
Port Medway Readers’ Festival 23-Jul-2016:
Joan Clark
Joan Clark’s newest novel begins with an unexpected demise, sudden and violent, yet The Birthday Lunch is a sunny book – set during one July 1981 week in Sussex, N.B, a town that, for just about every New Brunswicker, evokes dairies and ice cream. As the family gathers for the funeral, Clark enjoys her characters’ foibles and, as we get to know them, so do we; her book illuminates both the ordinariness and the devastating uniqueness of death—it packs real punch. Born on the South Shore, now living in Newfoundland, Joan Clark has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Commonwealth Fiction Award and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has received many national awards for her work in Canada.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
Port Medway Readers’ Festival 9-Jul-2016:
Elizabeth Hay
On the first page of Elizabeth Hay’s His Whole Life, a young boy asks his parents, “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” A generous writer who has always been eloquent on the messiness of family life, Hay’s latest book sets the boy’s coming of age between the lead-up to the second Quebec referendum and the death of Pierre Trudeau, exploring the competing claims on everyone’s love and loyalty. The Giller Prize winner returns to read from her Rogers Writers’ Trust-nominated bestseller.
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Photo © Elizabeth Hay
