The Canadian Ecology Centre has a literary weekend planned to celebrate Earth Day later this month.

On Saturday April 21st, three authors will share their books and insights at the Words In The Woods event, a fundraiser for the Ecology Centre’s charitable educational foundation, supporting program subsidies for youth.

There will also be writing workshops on Friday, April 21st, which are open to all writers.

There are bursaries for students.

“These authors of fiction and non-fiction have a strong connection to nature in their writing,” said Laura Kielpinksi, Director of Education and Operations at the CEC. “We are fortunate to have these authors present their thoughts of the importance of Earth Day/environment connected within their prose.”

Keynote author will be Kate Harris author of Lands of Lost Borders.

She is a writer and adventurer with a knack for getting lost.

Named one of Canada’s top modern-day explorers, her award-winning nature and travel writing has been featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic Travel, Sidetracked and The Georgia Review, and cited in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing.

She has degrees in science from MIT and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in the history of science from Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Also featured is Kathryn Walsh Kuitenbrouwer, she is the bestselling author of the novel All the Broken Things, which was nominated for Canada Reads and the Toronto Book Award.

She is also the author of the novels Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner, the latter of which was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

Presenting is Christine Fischer Guy, her short fiction has appeared in Descant, Prairie Fire, and The Austin Review, and has been nominated for the Journey and Pushcart Prizes.

Her novel The Umbrella Mender debuted in September 2014 and was excerpted in Descant and Ars Medica.

These authors will be introduced by Janet Joy Wilson Senior Executive Sales Director at Penguin Random House Canada, co-founder of The Reading Line, resident Book Lover on Global TV’s The Morning Show and Program Curator for CEC’s Words in the Woods.

She says of Kate Harris, “A great book is worth saving in order to savour. I travelled to Russia in February for the World Cycling Congress and I packed Kate Harris’ hardcover in my carry-on luggage in order to read it on the train from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. Talk about delayed gratification that was absolutely worth the wait and the weight. She is brilliant, a Rhodes Scholar and Morehead-Cain scholar, and her extreme adventure is within our own reach due to her talent of making her explorations accessible.”

There will be a free day program of events for families; there will be a silent auction featuring six themed mini libraries with a focus on nature, science and the environment for adults and children, donated by Penguin Random House Canada; opportunities for book purchases and author signings and other door prizes.

For more event information contact the Head Master and General Manager, Bill Steer at 705-744-1715, ext. 570 or bill@canadianecology.ca
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More information and tickets can be found on the CEC website, you can register online at www.canadianecology.ca (Earth Day tab).

 

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