Waking up to Anne Carson & thinking, oh dear god, yes. “People should just quit that stuff.”

🎉 Four weeks from today, the 15th Annual Cabot Trail Writers Festival opens!! 🎉 Two of our workshops are already full, but tickets to many more wonderful events are still available. Won’t you join us for a wondrous weekend of words? https://t.co/zVYGozMP7a

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We have one final—and fantastic—author announcement to share: photojournalist @DBCalabrese will join our festival lineup (Sept.22-24), sharing his bestselling book of photographs and essays Leaving Good Things Behind: Photographs of Atlantic Canada. https://t.co/o4djgHDUlH

It gives us great pleasure to tell you that Halifax writer @HaalaBeeba will join the lineup for our 2023 festival (Sept.22-24). Habiba’s book #BlackInSchool is a stirring account of systemic racism and call for justice and educational reform. https://t.co/mzg4zzT802

After missing hosting her at our hurricane-thwarted 2022 festival, we are SO happy to welcome Mi'kmaw mother, poet, playwright, oral storyteller and ecologist shalan joudry to the lineup for our 2023 festival (Sept.22-24). https://t.co/HyccIbHfOV

Delighted to report that PEI author Nicholas Herring will be island-hopping over to Cape Breton to attend our festival this year (Sept.22-24)! Nicholas’s brilliant debut novel, Some Hellish, won the prestigious 2022 Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Prize... https://t.co/kTOu1FX3KT

Are you subscribed to our festival newsletter? We will soon announce our full festival schedule and ticket sales, and our subscribers will be the very first to get this and all festival news! https://t.co/FIkVbz7Ezy

NS author Amanda Peters (Indigenous Voices Award winner, Writers’ Trust Rising Star, Publishers Weekly’s Writers to Watch) published her first novel, #TheBerryPickers, this April to immediate acclaim. We are THRILLED to host Amanda at CTWF (Sept.22-24)! https://t.co/VxerbXJYwv

We couldn't be more delighted to welcome #shelaghrogers to our lineup (unfolding Sept.22-24). After a 43-year career at CBC, Shelagh just retired from 15 years hosting beloved literary program The Next Chapter. What a joy to host her here on the island! https://t.co/pLtrtYkbAb

Today’s the day!!! We’re releasing the 2023 Cabot Trail Writers Festival schedule and tickets! Visit our website to book your tickets and join us for an incredible weekend of words, stories, music, joy and inspiration, here on this beautiful island. https://t.co/NiGOlxY1TX

We’re thrilled to announce another fantastic new literary voice joining our 2023 festival lineup (Sept.22-24): Newfoundland author @RealWilliamPing, whose debut novel #HollowBamboo has been shortlisted for the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. https://t.co/ACQo4GxjCQ

After hurricane Fiona kept us from hosting him (or anyone!) last year at the festival, we are thrilled to announce that @omarelakkad will be joining our 2023 lineup! We are two years of excited to host this incredible, Giller Prize-winning writer... https://t.co/G6iP7w1HnR

Yesterday we shared @beatonna's stunning artwork and today we're delighted to announce that Kate will also be joining our festival lineup! We couldn't be more excited to host this magnificent Cape Breton artist (and Canada Reads winner!) at the festival. https://t.co/Cue7w72RLq

We're thrilled to share our 2023 festival artwork, created by the magnificent @beatonna in honour of the 15th anniversary of the Cabot Trail Writers Festival. (And we just love the beautiful colour patterns, which Kate took from vintage endpapers and book textures!) ❤️ 📖🖌🎨

We don’t want this to be goodbye — but it might be. ROOM is extending our fundraiser to June 10 in a last push to meet our $20k goal. (⅓) https://t.co/xTvgR8VQAU

Just in case there was ANYONE wondering why the Education Assistants are striking in NS.... take a gander at what an EA makes all over Canada. And remember how expensive it is to live in NS. Now, tell me why they SHOULDN'T be striking!

The Canadian Association of Literary Festivals is here! Learn more about our festival members, membership and yrbc CALF annual conference at https://t.co/nHUFvMr0AI. #CanLitFests