Yes, Books & Beer 3 is just a month away. (You knew that already, right?) Just in case you're still wondering what this unique winter-busting party is all about - the official release is included below. Everything you need to know, in detail. Want the highlights? Okay, here you go:
- Elora author Rio Youers! Boom.
- Tuesday, February 7, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Roxanne's Reflections Book & Card Shop in Fergus
- Tickets available from the store ahead of time and at the door - but be warned: space is limited
- Yes, you will be surrounded by books. And yes there will be beer, thanks to the ongoing and very appreciated sponsorship of Wellington Brewery. (And we'll provide some snacks too.)
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Read on for the complete story. See you there!
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Meet local author Rio Youers at Books and
Beer event
The Elora Writers’ Festival presents an
intimate evening with a local author in the festival’s third Books and Beer
event.
Books and Beer 3 features Elora’s Rio
Youers, author of End Times and Hollow Point.
The event runs Tuesday, Feb. 7 starting at
7 p.m. at Roxanne’s Reflections Book and Card Shop in downtown Fergus. Tickets
are $15 and include an author reading, question and answer period, snacks and
beer, the latter sponsored by Wellington Brewery. Tickets are available in
advance or at the door — space is limited.
A British Fantasy Award nominee, Youers has
had short fiction published in many notable anthologies, and his novel, Westlake
Soul, was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award.
He has been favourably reviewed in such
venues as Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and The National Post. His new novel, The
Forgotten Girl, will be released by MacMillan/Thomas Dunne Books in June, 2017.
He lives in Elora with his wife Emily and their children, Lily and Charlie.
Books and Beer was created in 2015 by
Writers’ Festival committee member Jean Mills as a fundraiser for the festival,
and featured rural noir author Brad Smith.
“It was a successful fundraiser for the
2015 Elora Writers’ Festival and brought literature and libations to a cold
January evening,” committee member Dave Beynon says.
The second, 2016 event featured Fergus
author J.M. Frey, whose fantasy novel The Untold Tale, the first volume in The
Accidental Turn series, had just been released.
About 30 people enjoyed readings from The
Untold Tale as well as a question and answer session, refreshments, and a
chance to bid on a steampunk lamp by D.W. Mills — which Frey created an
impromptu story about on the spot.
“The people who’ve come out to these events
enjoy the intimacy of the venue and the opportunity to interact with the
writers,” Beynon says. “The readings and Q and A session stimulate lively
conversation among the attendees — and of course there’s beer as well.”
Books and Beer 3 also includes a book
signing, time for conversation, and a raffle for an original ballpoint pen
drawing by committee member and artist Francis Baker, and information about the
Elora Writers’ Festival later in the year.
Held at Aboyne Hall at the Wellington
County Museum and Archives on Sunday, May 28 from 1 to 5 p.m., the 2017 Elora
Writers’ Festival features Youers, Andrew Westoll (The Chimps of Fauna
Sanctuary), poet Mary Ann Mulhern, young adult and children’s author Adrienne
Kress, and mystery/thriller author Brad Smith.
For details and information, watch the
festival’s blog at elorawritersfestival.blogspot.ca.
