Elephant Mountain Literary Festival rated in Canada’s top 10
By Contributor
Readers, writers, literary enthusiasts, environmentalists, and music fans can now purchase discounted passes for this year’s Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, running from July 6-10.
EMLF was recently voted one of the best literary festivals in Canada by the Toronto Star, which shouldn’t be a surprise judging by this year’s impressive list of writers and performers, including the iconic J.B. MacKinnon, author of the 100 Mile Diet, the widely celebrated Caroline Adderson, author of 14 books for adults and children, and the inimitable folk/jazz singer Jill Barber.
Gold pass holders will have access to all festival events for just $75.
The festival kicks off at the Nelson Public Library Wednesday, July 6th with a lecture on writing craft by Caroline Adderson who has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize twice for her novels and story collections.
The official opening gala on Thursday, July 7th, will feature CBC personality Grant Lawrence and music by Jill Barber. Winners of the Kootenay Literary Competition, Kootenay Mountain Culture’s fiction and poetry contest and the Richard Carver Award will also read at the gala.
On Friday, July 8th, J.B. MacKinnon, author of the 100 Mile Diet, a book that changed how people think about food and reflects the ethics of many Nelsonites, will be reading along with Richard Cannings, author of British Columbia: a Natural History and Briony Penn, author of The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan, which was recently shortlisted for a 2016 BC Book Prize.
The evening will be hosted by CBC personality and author Bill Richardson. Fans will have a chance to hear Richardson read from his latest poetry collection, The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps: Poems of the Late Middle Ages,on July 9th. He will be joined by Caroline Adderson, and there will be a Q & A afterwards.
Early Bird special pricing for gold passes is in effect until May 31. The regular price for passes is $85.
For full schedule and ticket information, go to emlfestival.com.
