Trapper Boy author featured in CTWF youth program lineup
The Cabot Trail Writers Festival has announced its 2016 (Sept. 30-Oct. 2) lineup and we are proud to note that Hugh R MacDonald – author of Trapper Boy and Us & Them (forthcoming) – is a featured author in the festival’s inaugural young adult/children’s programme in various schools across Cape Breton. Kevin Sylvester and Sylvia Gunnery also headline the youth program. A family reading event will be held in Sydney on Thursday evening (Sept. 29).
This year’s festival brings together some of Canada’s most celebrated writers across many genres: Governor-General Award winner Rosemary Sullivan; two-time Stephen Leacock Award winner Terry Fallis; Silver Birch Award winner Kevin Sylvester; Giller Finalist and Thomas H. Raddall Award winner Russell Wangersky; Winterset Award Finalist Leslie Vryenhoek; Margaret and John Savage First Book Award winner Sarah Mian; acclaimed Conundrum Press publisher Andy Brown; and Nova Scotia Established Artist Award winner Christy Ann Conlin.
The eighth annual Cabot Trail Writers Festival will be held from September 30 – October 2 at The Gaelic College in St. Ann’s Bay, Cape Breton.