Word enthusiasts flock to Eden Mills for 35th annual Writers’ Festival

Rockwood author and illustrator Vanessa Ireson has published two children’s books, both set in Rockwood - Let’s Go, Goose-Goose, starring a Goose in the Rockwood Conservation Area, and Sir Steve and the Christmas Dragon, featuring the Rockwood Santa Claus Parade.

Zoltak Innes and Ruby Cooper, participating in a love letter writing activity after listening to Gillian Sze read her book The Little Green Envelope.

Guelph Storyteller Brad Woods told an enthralling tale about a grandmother’s efforts to help her grandson fall asleep at night.

Puppeteer-poet Shannon Bramer invited her son Gabriel on stage to read a poem inspired by something he drew.

Many of the readings throughout the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival were accompanied by American Sign Language (ASL) translation.