I might be
biased, since I'm on the committee, but gritLIT is one of the best festivals
Hamilton has to offer, and it starts tomorrow! We're so excited to welcome a
Writer's Trust Fiction Prize winner, a Journey Prize winner, a handful of punk
rockers, and the winner of the 2013 Giller Prize to this year's celebration of
writers, reading, and books. Visit gritlit.ca for more information.
Here's the
complete schedule. Hope to see you there!
Thursday,
April 3rd, 2014
7:00pm —
Poetry
gritLIT
partners with the Hamilton Poetry Centre to welcome celebrated poets Julie
Bruck (Monkey Ranch) and Adam Dickinson (The Polymers).
8:30pm —
Murder Was the Crime
Peter
Robinson (Children of the Revolution), D.J. McIntosh (The Book of Stolen Tales)
and Debra Komar (The Lynching of Peter Wheeler) share tales of murder and
suspense in an evening of fictional and true-life mysteries.
Friday,
April 4, 2014
7:00pm —
Family Matters
Jump into
the offbeat, sometimes hilarious world of family dysfunction with Ray Robertson
(I Was There the Night He Died) and Nancy Jo Cullen(Canary).
8:30pm — An
Equal and Opposite Reaction
Michael
Winter (Minister Without Portfolio), Emma Donoghue (Frog Music) and Catherine
Bush (Accusation) delve into the lives of characters whose worlds are forever
changed by events beyond their control.
Saturday,
April 5, 2014
10:30 am —
Literary Salon with Michael Winter
Join one of
Canada's most celebrated authors for light refreshments and a lively
round-table discussion about books, writing and the Canadian publishing
industry.
This event
takes place at the Mulberry Street Coffeehouse, 193 James St. N.
Registration
is limited. Registration fee: $20/$15 for gritLIT members
10:30am —
Writing Workshop: Writing from the Prompt
Critically-acclaimed
novelist Catherine Bush shows writers of all levels how to use prompts to dig
deeper, become more open and find the playful exuberance at the heart of all
great writing.
Registration
is limited. Registration fee: $20/$15 for gritLIT members
1:00pm —
The Mother and Child Reunion
Memoirists
Jowita Bydlowska (Drunk Mom) and Priscila Uppal (Projection: Encounters with
MyRunaway Mother) share tales of struggle and recovery.
2:15pm —
gritLIT Contest Winners
Two winners
of last year's gritLIT writing competition, Alexandra Missettand Raymond
Beauchemin, share excerpts from their winning works.
Admission
is free.
3:00pm —
Lives of Girls and Women
Krista
Bridge (The Eliot Girls), Jennifer LoveGrove (Watch How We Walk) and Lauren B.
Davis (The Empty Room) examine the lives of extraordinary women fighting to
discover their own identities.
7:00pm — In
Conversation with...Teenage Head
Graham
Rockingham sits down with members of Teenage Head and with author Geoff Pevere
to discuss Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story.
8:30pm —
Putting the grit in gritLIT
Celebrate
the work of two of Canada's grittiest and most interesting literary voices:
Craig Davidson (Cataract City) and Lynn Coady (Hellgoing).
Sunday,
April 6, 2014
10:30am —
Writing Workshop: First Things First
Journey
Prize finalist and novelist Krista Foss guides you through the process of
developing a first novel from inception to publication.
Registration
is limited. Registration fee: $20/$15 for gritLIT members
10:30am —
Writing Workshop: Telling Our Own Tales
Author
Denise Chong examines the task of turning knowing family stories into telling
them and focuses on the power and flaws of memory and issues of privacy and
respect in bringing these stories to the page.
Registration
is limited. Registration fee: $20/$15 for gritLIT members
1:00pm — A
Book to Take Us Worlds Away
Travel from
a small town in 1950's Yugoslavia to the badlands of the wild west with
novelists Nicole Lundrigan (The Widow Tree) and Natalee Caple (In Calamity's
Wake).
2:15pm —
All About the Hammer preview
Local
novelists Hugh Cook (Heron River) and Janet Turpin Myers (Nightswimming) share
their stories in a preview of this evening's All About the Hammer event.
Admission
is free.
3:00pm —
Different Voices, Different Lands
Join Denise
Chong (Lives of the Family), Saleema Nawaz (Bone and Bread) and Dannabang
Kuwabong (Voices from Kibuli Country) for a fascinating reading and discussion
about identity and the impact of cultural heritage on the stories we tell.
7:30pm —
Closing Night with LitLive: All About the Hammer
gritLIT
partners with LitLive for a gala closing night celebrating the
recently-published works of seven Hamilton authors. Presenters include Chris
Pannell (A Nervous City), John Terpstra (Brilliant Falls), Jeffery Donaldson
(Slack Action), Amanda Jernigan (All the Daylight Hours), Marilyn Gear Pilling
(A Bee Garden), Amanda Leduc (The Miracles of Ordinary Men) and David Haskins
(This House Is Condemned).
This event
takes place at Homegrown Hamilton, 27 King William St.
This is a pay-what-you-can event.
Grit Lit is one of the reason why I'd like to move to Hamilton if we ever make it back to Canada! Looks like a great line up!
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