Cabot Trail Writers Festival ... at North River

October 2 - 4, 2009

The Authors

Our inaugural lineup of authors includes Newfoundland's award-winning Donna Morrissey, author of Kit's Law and What They Wanted (Penguin), the latter named to "The Globe's top fiction of 2008" (The Globe and Mail).

Joining Donna will be Cape Breton's Douglas Arthur Brown, whose 2008 novel Quintet (Key Porter) is the winner of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.

As well, we will be delighted to feature the Cabot Trail's own Susan Zettell, who recently published her first full-length novel, The Checkout Girl (Signature Editions 2008), after teasing us with her successful short stories in Holy Days of Obligation (Nuage Editions) and Night Watch (Signature Editions).

The Music

Because the now-famous Celtic Colours will follow our festival by just one week, the thoughts of all Cape Bretoners will naturally turn to music.

We are very excited, then, to invite you to our opening night Literary Cabaret, which will feature selected readings from her work by Donna Morrissey, in an evening of written words punctuated by the music of the Poes Trio—guitarist Paul MacDonald, fiddler and luthier Otis Tomas, and bassist Ed Woodsworth.

Our wrap-up Sunday Brunch with all the authors will highlight the living practice of story-telling in a performance by the Cabot Trail's Bill Conall, a musician and author who just has a way with a story (The Rock in the Water, Hidden Book Press 2009).

Tickets on sale at Blue Heron Gifts, Baddeck; The Curiosity Shop, Sydney; Wreck Cove General Store, Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail. Remaining tickets will be available at the door, but call North River Hall on the event day first to confirm ticket availability. For detailed event and workshop information visit our website: www.cabottrailwritersfestival.com