Rebecca Silver Slayter

[Rebecca Silver Slayter @SilverSlayter]

@jemma111 @blgtylr A hearty second to this most excellent New Brunswick alternative! We of Cape Breton Island love you, @blgtylr !

[Maureen Langloss @MaureenLangloss]

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

[Rebecca Silver Slayter @SilverSlayter]

🎉 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

[Rebecca Silver Slayter @SilverSlayter]

@Monika_Dutt @WriteEditPunch @CabotTrailWrite 🎉👏🏻❤️fantastic news!!! And the beginning of much more good news to come, I'm certain.

[king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore]

bookmark, woozles, king's co-op bookstore

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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

[CTWF @CabotTrailWrite]

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!) ❤️ 📖🖌🎨

[Room Magazine @RoomMagazine]

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