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Second Annual Feast of Authors

A banquet for book lovers!

Thursday, April 2, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm Location: NORTH St. Lawrence Market 92 Front Street East

Toronto Dollar Hosts a Feast of Authors, a gathering of Toronto's writing community – on April 2, 2009.

The evening will offer a banquet for book lovers. 56 local authors, primarily members of the Writers’ Union of Canada, will sell and sign their books, meet readers and talk or read from the stage.

There is no charge for admission and no advance booking is required!

Here's the program for the evening:

6:30 Anne Hume - Against All Disaster: The Back Story 6:40 Carolyn Matthews - True Stories of Rescue and Survival: Canada's Unknown Heroes 6:50 Bruce Bell - History of St. Lawrence Market 7:00 Erno Rossi - Hockey Poem: They Hit the Post and Holy Ghost 7:03 Valerie Argue - Phyllis Brett Young: Valerie’s mother 7:10 Sandra Dempsey - Performance Reading from play: Flying to Glory 7:20 Jerry Armernic - Writing Historical Fiction 7:30 Larel Dee Gugler - Theme of War and Peace in A Piece of Forever 7:35 Elizabeth Abbott - Sugar: A Bittersweet Story 7:45 Jasmine D’Costa - Interactive Reading from Elephant on the Highway 7:55 Graham McWaters - Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Children's Story Time:

6:40 Leo Agosto - Market Treat: The St. Lawrence Market 6:50 Laurel Dee Gugler - Monkey Tales 7:00 Peggy Moss & Dee Dee Tardif - Our Friendship Rules 7:10 Karen Patkau - One Watermelon Seed 7:20 Frances Rooney - Extraordinary Women Environmentalists 7:30 Robert Weston - Zorgamasoo

And here's an updated list of the participants:

Poets: Glen Downie, Catherine Graham, Luciano Iacobelli, Sharon Singer

Children’s and Young Adult Authors: Leo Agosto, Matt Beam, David Day, Ann Ewan, Laurel Dee Gugler, Anne Hume, Lisa Joyal, Kathleen McDonnell, Peggy Moss, Karen Patkau, Kati Rekai, Nora Rock, Frances Rooney, Rosemary Sadlier, Dee Dee Tardiff, Robert Paul Weston

Fiction: Jerry Amernic, Karen M. Black, Joan Boswell, Edward Brown, Jasmine D’Costa, Lucille de Saint-Andre, Mary Lou Dickinson, Madeleine Harris-Callway, Dorris Heffron, Joy Kogawa, Sharon Marcus, Michael Mirolla, Hal Niedzviecki, Patricia Pearson, Kayla Perrin, Waheed Rabbani, Reva Stern, Sylvia Warsh, Frank Westcott, Robert Paul Weston, Phyllis Brett Young

Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Abbott, Bruce Bell, Dennison Berwick, Yvonne Blackwood, Alan John Cooper, Sandra Dempsey, Marilyn Garshowitz, Benj Gallander, Esther Gombor, Gwynneth Heaton, Larry Krotz, Graham McWaters, Carolyn Matthews, Erno Rossi, Brian Vallée

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