Pledge to make a difference, together.
Kingston WritersFest is a four-day readers' and writers' festival featuring more than 60 top Canadian and international authors in 45 events – readings, onstage conversations, performances, and Writers Studio master classes for emerging and established writers. Among our author alumni are Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, Paul Auster, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Roméo Dallaire, Jane Urquhart, Anita Rau Badami, Richard Gwyn, and Lawrence Martin.
We promote literacy in the schools through a Think You Can Write contest; Festival Field Trips, which bring high-school students to special youth events; and Authors@School, which takes writers into elementary schools. We collaborate with Queen’s University in the Queen's Common Reader program, and offer all students free rush seats to onstage events.