Three Canadian Novels in the Running for the Commonwealth Book Prize

Joanne Skibsrud at the 2011 EWF
(Photo: Andy E. Williams)

"Johanna Skibsrud's Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Sentimentalists is one of three Canadian titles on the short list for this year's Commonwealth Book Prize. The others are The Town that Drowned by Riel Nason of Quispamsis, N.B., and Dancing Lessons from Jamaican-born, Toronto-based Olive Senior. Skibsrud, who grew up in Pictou County, N.S., won the Giller for The Sentimentalists in November 2010. At 30, she was the youngest recipient ever for the $50,000 honour."

— CBC
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Joanne Skibrud read from her award-winning novel The Sentimentalist at the 2011 Elora Writers' Festival. Join us this year ( Sunday, May 27) for another afternoon of readings by award-winning Canadian authors.

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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.