Local Coverage of the 2011 Elora Writers' Festival

Read an account of the 2011 Elora Writers' Festival in the Guelph Mecury: Writers’ festival a book lover’s delight

Forty-Eight Hours and Counting...

There is still time... you can be on the cancellation/waiting list for Dinner Tickets. Call 519-843-4391 right now. But if all else fails, "Readings Only" tickets are available at the door.

And don't forget:  YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST winners will be announced at a one-hour gathering on Sunday, May 29, in Aboyne Hall (no admission charge) at 11:00 A.M. (OPEN CONTEST winners will be anounced during the Readings Intermission.)


See you all there!

Listen. Digest. Dine.

Photo: Michael Hale

Tickets to the Festival are almost gone — the combination "Readings and Dinner" ($60) tickets, that is.

But if you pick up the phone right now, and call 519-846-4391 and speak to Roxanne, or any one of the fabulous crew at Roxanne's Reflections Book and Card Shop, you have a chance to vindicate your procrastination.

Think of it... an afternoon of readings by six of Canada's finest authors; (a chance to really talk to them); the gentle music of guitarist Bob Norris; appetizers; a glass or two of wine, a stroll in the Victorian Gardens steps away from Aboyne Hall — and then a sumptuous dinner prepared by Chef Derek Roberts of Fraberts Fresh Food in Fergus.

All for $60.00 per person, tax and gratuity included.

Tickets are going fast; especially the "Dinner (& Readings)" tickets. Buy them here.

Richard Greene — Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Poetry

"Boxing the Compass is a poetry collection of mid-life reassessments that also makes room for the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp, tone-deaf church choirs, the last of the Newfoundland whalers, and vividly remembered Portuguese fishermen. Spiritually searching and intellectually rich, Richard Greene's third book—which ranges from intimate to ironic to satiric—shuns easy answers in poems of unfashionable eloquence comprised of colloquial textures, clear-eyed narratives, political subtexts, and no-nonsense introspection." — from www.mcnallyrobinson.com



For a sample of Richard Greene's poetry, go to this site...
and get a front row seat to hear him read at the Festival on Sunday, May 29, 2011.