CTWF

Join us at our 2025 online Annual General Meeting, at 6:30 p.m. AT, on Monday, February 10. DM us, call 902.224.5231 or email info[at]cabottrailwritersfestival[dot]com to sign up to receive the Zoom link!

The Cabot Trail Writers Festival Society will host our 2025 Annual General Meeting on Zoom on Monday, February 10, at 6:30 p.m. Atlantic Time. If you’d like to receive the Zoom link to attend, please DM us or comment on this post, or email info@cabottrailwritersfestival.com.

@AngusMacCaull @ianwillwrite Thanks so much, @AngusMacCaull!

The Cabot Trail Writers Festival in Cape Breton runs from Oct 4 to Oct 6. I can't find it on X and I'm not participating in the festival but doesn't it look like something that's been too well kept a secret? cabottrailwritersfestival.com

@ianwillwrite @AngusMacCaull And we so loved hosting you digitally at our 2020 festival, @ianwillwrite, and hope we can lure you back to the island (and to our stage!) before long...

@ianwillwrite @AngusMacCaull Woefully late in spotting this (we were clearly deeply in festival and neglecting our social media), but such thanks for this very kind shoutout, @ianwillwrite! (And for your wonderful lecture in Sydney, which our director and several board members were in the audience for...)

As October draws to a close and wintry weather sets in, we find ourselves dreaming of the warm, wonderful weekend we spent together earlier this month, and feeling such gratitude to all the authors, audience members, volunteers, and funders who make the festival possible…

Such a special event coming up at the Inverness County Centre for the Arts this Sunday, Aug. 18 at 3:30 p.m.! Part-time Inverness County resident Helen Tworkov will shareher memoir, Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America. We hope to see you there!

It's time!!!! We've released the 2024 Cabot Trail Writers Festival schedule and tickets! You can now view the full festival schedule (Oct.4-6) on our website. To book tickets, click the link below or call us at 902.224.5231... tinyurl.com/2024CabotTrail…

Local writer Andrea Currie will be joining our lineup to share her stunning first book, Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, which will be released just in time for the festival. We can't wait... Click the link to read more about Andrea! tinyurl.com/andreacurrie

Attendees of our Zoom panel with the nominees for Best Atlantic-Published Book already know Anne Koval is the author of "Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision" (which won the award!). We're so pleased Anne will attend our festival! Click to read more: tinyurl.com/annekoval

We're thrilled that local artist Sig Burwash will be part of our festival lineup, sharing their debut graphic novel Vera Bushwack (which was just selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice recommendation this month!). Follow the link to learn more! tinyurl.com/sigburwash

We're delighted to announce another fantastic author in our 2024 lineup: Jesse Thistle, author of the poetry collection Scars & Stars (who has family ties to Cape Breton, as readers of his memoir From the Ashes will know). Click the link to read more ... tinyurl.com/jessethistle

We are SO looking forward to hosting Nova Scotian novelist @charcarr1 at the festival this year to share her stunning new book "We Rip the World Apart" (you may also have read "Hold My Girl," which Charlene released last year to great acclaim). tinyurl.com/CTWFcharleneca…

Readers! Poets! Invernessers! Check out this magnificent-sounding event coming up at 2 p.m. on July 17 at the Inverness County Centre for the Arts with Pulitzer-nominated poet-playwright Cornelius Eady... Not to be missed! invernessarts.com/all-upcoming-e…

Next in our 2024 lineup: David Chariandy, award-winning author of 3 books, including "I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You" and "Brother." David was scheduled to attend our hurricane-cancelled 2022 festival, and we’re so excited to welcome him at last to CTWF! tinyurl.com/davidchariandy

We're thrilled to announce the first author in our 2024 lineup today! Ann-Marie MacDonald is the internationally bestselling author of numerous plays and 4 novels—including Fall on Your Knees and, most recently, Fayne. Please follow the link to read more: tinyurl.com/ann-mariemacdo…

4/4 "Or stories emerging from different springs, floating together, opening into something new."

3/4 She writes, "Inspired by the Cape Breton landscape, I was drawn to the idea of streams coming together from various places, both literally and figuratively. Like people gathering on the island for the festival.

1/4 Over the coming days and weeks we'll be announcing the MAGNIFICENT lineup for the 16th annual Cabot Trail Writers Festival (Oct.4-6, 2024). And today, we're delighted to share the commissioned artwork that will be featured in this year's festival marketing.