#northwords

I can’t believe I didn’t think to post this before, but because of Covid-19, our writers’ festival is going online, and there’s some GREAT opportunities to participate in free workshops or attend free panel discussions. Times are in Mountain Standard Time. 

The festival was GREAT though my participation was mostly working at events. But all the visiting authors were great - Lawrence Hill, Miranda Hill, Craig Davidson (who also writes as Nick Cutter and Patrick Lestewka), Shane Turgeon, Teva Harrison and Carol Daniels were our featured this year.  We had great attendance, despite the hiccups of changing board staff and a switch in Executive Director partway through the year.  

The Luncheon with Lawrence Hill was fabulous.  He discussed identity in his writing and life in general and we were all so enraptured that when the power went out in the city, even though the power goes out here enough that it REALLY isn’t that much of a surprise, there was an audible gasp, which is super funny to me.  And I got to play hero - I immediately turned my cell into a flashlight and passed it up to the stage. Kudos to Apple for making that part of the iPhone.