Don’t forget, if you live in the Brandon area, you should come to Words Alive, downtown Brandon’s premiere literary festival. It’s put on by a group that has significant overlap with the bloggers whom you know and love as Absurd Intellectuals, and it’s lots of fun.
I blogged about it yesterday, the first day of this year’s festival, but today is the real meat. We’ve got workshops at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the business of writing as well as on the art and craft of writing, with Jim Chliboyko and Michael Van Rooy.
Tonight, we have authors Margaret Sweatman and Joel Thomas Hynes giving readings from their latest works. We have an impressive track record of booking authors right before they blow up huge and get sweet awards, so you’ll be able to tell all your book-loving friends that “you saw them when.”
Absurd Intellectual is an official sponsor this year, for which I’m proud. Now all I have to do is figure out a revenue stream for this blog, and it’ll all be gravy.
P.S. Admission to Words Alive is free.
Grant Hamilton
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Colin