HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 2015-07-08, Page 88 News Record • Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Annual writer's festival
lands in Bayfield
All the crime stuff is true but you're
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Laura Broadley
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For the 14th time Bayfield
was host to celebrated Cana-
dian authors.
The Bayfield writer's festi-
val at the Town Hall on June
27 saw six authors present
their novels and anecdotes.
Authors Peter Edwards,
Marina Endicott, Peter
Kavanagh, Carrie Snyder,
Douglas Gibson and Eliza-
beth Abbott came from all
over Canada.
Edwards, a reporter with
the Toronto Star, was pro-
moting his books Business
or Blood and One Dead
Indian. Edwards has writ-
ten several novels about
organized crime but he
still recognizes that his
subjects are human.
"All the crime stuff is true
but you're talking about
human beings," he said.
Another distinguished
author was Douglas Gibson.
Laura Broadley Clinton News Record
The Bayfield Town Hall was awash in writing talent on June 27 for the annual Bayfield writer's
festival. Canadian authors came from all over to do presentations, readings and participate in a
question and answer period for the event. Back row, Marina Endicott, left, Douglas Gibson and Peter
Edwards. Front row, Martha Beechie (The Village Bookshop), left, Peter Kavanagh, Carrie Snyder and
Elizabeth Abbott.
Gibson was editor for many
famous writers during his
career, counting Alice
Munro, Robertson Davies
and Alistair MacLeod among
his clients. On June 27 he
made a presentation about
his memoir, Stories About
Storytellers.
In 1972 Gibson attended a
lunch that changed his life.
Barry Broadfoot brought
along transcripts that would
later turn into the award-win-
ning novel Ten Lost Years:
1929-1939. It is an anthology
of memories from Canadians
and their experiences during
the depression.
That meeting with Broad -
foot and the transcript
discovery changed the
course of Gibson's career.
The writer's festival has
been in Bayfield for 14 -years
as a brainchild of The Village
Bookshop.
Martha Beechie took over
ownership of shop last
December. She said she
wanted to continue to legacy
of the festival that was
started so many years ago.
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