The North Shore Writers Festival, back for its 16th year, is being presented Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18, at the West Vancouver Memorial Library.
The free celebration of Canadian authors is presented by the West Vancouver library in addition to the City and District of North Vancouver’s.
Friday's programming gets underway at 7 p.m., featuring John Vaillant in conversation with Grant Lawrence, followed by the Third Annual Literary Trivia Quiz Night, also hosted by Lawrence.
Saturday programming kicks off at 10 a.m., with a writers workshop and local author book fair, followed by a number of author panels throughout the day; for example, Where Stories Come From: Aislinn Hunter in Conversation with Doretta Lau at 2:45 p.m. The festival will be capped off with The Writer Who Is Montreal: Zsuzsi Gartner in Conversation with Heather O’Neill at 4 p.m. A public reception will follow.
