Literacy Plus holds a variety of fundraising events each year. Funds raised are used to help adults in Renfrew County upgrade their skills and improve their employability.
Join us for our 8th Annual Bonnechere Authors Festival on Wednesday evenings in July: dessert, coffee and conversation with great Canadian authors.
| July 7 |
Steven Heighton*
Kingston writer Steven Heighton is a prizewinning poet, novelist and short story writer, published in several countries. His acclaimed 2005 novel Afterlands (2005) concerns the human aftermath of a failed 1872 Arctic expedition. His new novel, Every Lost Country (April 2010) is set in contemporary Tibet.
* Please Note: This reading takes place at St. Francis Xavier Church Hall, 331 Plaunt Street South, Renfrew |
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| July 14 |
Catherine Gildiner
Toronto author Catherine Gildiner follows up Too Close to the Falls, her best-selling 1999 memoir of an eccentric childhood, with After the Falls(2009) — continuing the story through her teenage and college years in the activist 1960s. Other books include Seduction, a contemporary mystery that includes Freud and Darwin. |
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| July 21 |
Maggie Wheeler
Maggie Wheeler is a popular ‘history and mystery’ writer whose page-turning Farran Mackenzie series weaves together past and present in the Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway Valley. The fourth and final book, On a Darkling Plain, published in 2009, brings together threads from the earlier books—read those first, advises the author! |
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| July 28 |
Dr. Ben Hoffman
Pembroke-born Ben Hoffman is a peace activist who negotiates for conflict resolution in Canada and worldwide. In February 2010, he published his memoir Peace Guerilla, which includes his work with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter to end a two-decade war between Uganda and Sudan. |
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| Time: |
7:30 p.m. for Coffee and Dessert. Reading at 8:00 p.m. |
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St. James Church Hall,
78 Wellington Street, Eganville (July 14, July 21, July 28) |
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| Cost: |
$15 per evening/$50 for the series. Tickets at the door. |
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| Contact: |
Call (613) 628-1720 or (613) 754-2137 |
in collaboration with RCCUP
