NOWW LitFest 2023
May 12 and 13 2023
LitFest 2023 Happenings
May 12 and 13
Registration is required for all events!
(details on how to register coming soon)
Readings: Free
Awards Dinner: $60.
One Workshop: $40 for NOWW members / $70 for non-members
Two Workshops: $60 for NOWW members / $90 for non-members
All events: $105 for NOWW members / $135 for non-members
(details on how to register coming soon)
Readings: Free
Awards Dinner: $60.
One Workshop: $40 for NOWW members / $70 for non-members
Two Workshops: $60 for NOWW members / $90 for non-members
All events: $105 for NOWW members / $135 for non-members
May 12, 2023
- 4 PM EST - Joint reading - Anna Porter and Eric Walters
- at Definitely Superior Art Gallery
- 7 PM EST - Writing Contest Awards Dinner & Ceremony at Prince Arthur Hotel
- Keynote: Eric Walters
- Topic: From Teacher to Writer
- Keynote: Eric Walters
May 13, 2023
- 10 - 12 EST ... Eric Walters Workshop
- @ Prince Arthur Hotel
- Topic: Method to Madness
- @ Prince Arthur Hotel
- Noon EST ... Luncheon
- Keynote: Anna Porter
- Topic: Canadian Publishing: Then and Now
- Keynote: Anna Porter
- 1 - 3 EST ... Anna Porter Workshop
- @ Prince Arthur Hotel
- Topic: Crime Writing
- @ Prince Arthur Hotel
More details forthcoming - how to register and how to pay for events
Guest Authors
Anna Porter
Eric Walters
Anna Porter
Eric Walters
Anna Porter
Anna Porter’s recent books are Deceptions, a mystery, and a memoir of her wonderful and challenging life as a book publisher, In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time. Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, won the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner’s Train, the True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust was the winner of the 2007 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award and of the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction. She has written six novels , one of which, Bookfair Murders, was made into a television movie, and a strange childhood memoir, The Storyteller. Gull Island, a psychological mystery will be published in September.
She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a broad range of topics, including Solidarity in Poland, Hungarians, Slovaks and Czechs, Farley Mowat, Doris Anderson, the Roma, the book business, Dracula and the rise of fascism in Europe.
She is co-founder of Key Porter Books, a company with a wide-ranging list that included Farley Mowat, Allan Fotheringham, Howard Engel, Joan Barfoot, Fred Bruemmer, Norman Jewison, George Jonas, Margaret Atwood, The Right Honourable Jean Chretien, Sylvia Fraser, Modris Eksteins, John Keegan, Martin Gilbert, Irving Abella, Josef Skvorecky, Italo Calvino, William Trevor, Conrad Black and Janet Lunn.
She has served on numerous corporate and charitable boards, including Alliance Communications, the Empire Company, The Shaw Festival, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
She is an Officer of The Order of Canada and has been awarded the Order of Ontario.
For more information on Anna Porter visit her website: www.annaporter.ca
Anna Porter’s recent books are Deceptions, a mystery, and a memoir of her wonderful and challenging life as a book publisher, In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time. Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, won the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner’s Train, the True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust was the winner of the 2007 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award and of the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction. She has written six novels , one of which, Bookfair Murders, was made into a television movie, and a strange childhood memoir, The Storyteller. Gull Island, a psychological mystery will be published in September.
She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a broad range of topics, including Solidarity in Poland, Hungarians, Slovaks and Czechs, Farley Mowat, Doris Anderson, the Roma, the book business, Dracula and the rise of fascism in Europe.
She is co-founder of Key Porter Books, a company with a wide-ranging list that included Farley Mowat, Allan Fotheringham, Howard Engel, Joan Barfoot, Fred Bruemmer, Norman Jewison, George Jonas, Margaret Atwood, The Right Honourable Jean Chretien, Sylvia Fraser, Modris Eksteins, John Keegan, Martin Gilbert, Irving Abella, Josef Skvorecky, Italo Calvino, William Trevor, Conrad Black and Janet Lunn.
She has served on numerous corporate and charitable boards, including Alliance Communications, the Empire Company, The Shaw Festival, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
She is an Officer of The Order of Canada and has been awarded the Order of Ontario.
For more information on Anna Porter visit her website: www.annaporter.ca
Eric Walters
Eric Walters is a self-described 'method writer'. Rather than simply sitting quietly at his desk he likes to experience what his characters experience. This has involved hanging with elephants and moose, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, walking 250 kilometers across the Sahara Desert, trekking half way across Kenya, spending time in a 'biker's bar', and going to space camp. They say 'write what you know'. Eric weaves his novels around experiences he's done!
Eric's novels have been enthusiastically received by children and young adults and critically acclaimed by teachers, reviewers and parents. Eric’s novels have won more than 100 awards including eleven separate children’s choice awards. He is the only three-time winner of both the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch and four-time winner of the Red Maple Award – in which over 250,000 students participate and vote the winner. In November 2013 he received the prestigious Children’s Africana Book Award – Best Book for young children – for his book The Matatu. This American award was presented to Eric in a ceremony at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. In 2017 he won the prestigious Sakura Medal give to the favourite book of International students in Japan. Eric has been awarded the Order of Canada. He has also won the Governor General's Award for literature.
Eric’s novels are now available in places as far award as New Zealand, Australia, India and Nepal and have been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, German, Japanese, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Portuguese.
For more information on Eric Walters visit his website: https://www.ericwalters.net/about/