The Elora Writers’ Festival presents an intimate evening with a local author in the festival’s third Books and Beer event.
Books and Beer 3 features Elora’s Rio Youers, author of End Times and Hollow Point.
The event is taking place on Feb. 7 at 7pm at Roxanne’s Reflections Book and Card Shop in downtown Fergus.
Tickets are $15 and include an author reading, question and answer period, snacks and beer, the latter sponsored by Wellington Brewery.
Tickets are available in advance or at the door.
A British Fantasy Award nominee, Youers has had short fiction published in many anthologies and his novel Westlake Soul was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award.
His new novel, The Forgotten Girl, will be released by MacMillan/Thomas Dunne Books in June.
Youers lives in Elora with his wife Emily and their children, Lily and Charlie.
Books and Beer was created in 2015 by Writers’ Festival committee member Jean Mills as a fundraiser for the festival, and featured rural noir author Brad Smith.
“It was a successful fundraiser for the 2015 Elora Writers’ Festival and brought literature and libations to a cold January evening,” said committee member Dave Beynon.
The 2016 event featured Fergus author J.M. Frey, whose fantasy novel The Untold Tale, the first volume in The Accidental Turn series, had just been released.
About 30 people enjoyed readings from The Untold Tale as well as a question and answer session, refreshments and a chance to bid on a steampunk lamp by D.W. Mills.
“The people who’ve come out to these events enjoy the intimacy of the venue and the opportunity to interact with the writers,” Beynon said.
“The readings and Q and A session stimulate lively conversation among the attendees and of course there’s beer as well.”
Books and Beer 3 also includes a book signing, time for conversation and a raffle for an original ballpoint pen drawing by committee member and artist Francis Baker, and information about the Elora Writers’ Festival later in the year.
Held at Aboyne Hall at the Wellington County Museum and Archives on May 28 from 1 to 5pm, the 2017 Elora Writers’ Festival features Youers, Andrew Westoll (The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary), poet Mary Ann Mulhern, young adult and children’s author Adrienne Kress, and mystery/thriller author Brad Smith.
For details and information, watch elorawritersfestival.blogspot.ca.
