“You have to believe in your own magic,” Anuja Varghese, on writing in Drafts & Drafts hosted by Brent van Staalduinen with Amy Jones, Anuja Varghese, and Nathan Whitlock 📚.

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“Is there an importance in not wanting to belong,” Matthew R. Morris asks in ‘What Makes a Community?’📚.

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Falling Short with Vincent Anioke (Perfect Little Angels) and Jessica Westhead (Avalanche), hosted by Carleigh Baker!

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Speaking Fiction to Power with authors Alicia Elliott (And Then She Fell) and Jessica Westhead (Avalanche)! 📚

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Did you miss the gritLIT Board of Directors Chair, Melanie Cummings, on CHCH earlier this week?

Catch the segment here to learn more about this year's festival:

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#gritLIT2024 starts today! Don't want to miss a thing? Be sure to visit gritlit.ca for full details!

Looking to make some space on your shelves? Bring a book (or two) to this year’s festival to exchange in our very own pop-up Little Free Library. Browse what others have brought in and take a new-to-you title home to enjoy!

The LFL will be accessible throughout the festival.

It's National Volunteer Week! Thank you to the community members who help out during festival weekend and at gritLIT events year-round. There would not be a festival without you!

Coming to the festival this week? Be sure to thank a volunteer!

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In this workshop, poet Conyer Clayton looks at overlaps between figurative language and purposeful un-truths, between the speculative and realism in addition to looking at how to go beyond facts to uncover the true core of a story.

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Writing is a competitive field, and now more than ever, writers need to know how to build a presence online. Learn all about this and more with author Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio.

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Brent van Staalduinen sits down with Amy Jones (Pebble and Dove), Anuja Varghese (Chrysalis), and Nathan Whitlock (Lump) for a beer, a chat about their most recent books, and an exclusive sneak peek at their works-in-progress.

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With heartfelt humour, swanky resorts, shipwrecks, seaside weddings, and more, let authors Robin Lefler (Not How I Pictured It) and Leanne Toshiko Simpson (Never Been Better) immerse you in their tropical tales ... just ahead of summer!

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Through prose excerpts, instruction, group discussions, and writing exercises, this interactive workshop led by Vincent Anioke will explore various techniques for handling woes, thrills, and joys in ways that feel truthful and engaging.

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Casey Plett sits down with authors Paige Maylott and Kai Cheng Thom to discuss what it means to love ourselves and others truly and fully, with all our flawed and sacred parts.

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Join 2024 Spotlight Series Curator Gary Barwin as he presents novelist Geoffrey D. Morrison (Falling Hour) and poets Conyer Clayton (But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves) and Ayomide Bayowa (Gills).

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Don't miss this workshop! You will be challenged to think about fiction writing as the transformation of the known into something unknown, new, and exciting!

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gritLIT Book Club Leader Wendy O’Brien will lead author Shelly Kawaja in an in-depth discussion about her award-winning debut novel. Read the book in advance and join in the conversation, or sit back and listen with a coffee and pastry!

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