WORD ON THE LAKE WRITERs’ FESTIVAL
For all Writers and Readers
Prestige Harbourfront, SALMON ARM, BC | May 16th – 18th, 2025
Sessions include both skill development workshops and open forums with presenters based on questions and answers in a relaxed and intimate setting.
Early Bird Registration opens March 1, 2025, Closes April 20, 2025
Growing list of presenters include:
Eileen Cook
Multi-published, award-winning author
Tracy Cooper-Posey
Writer
Norma Dunning
Padlei Inuk writer, professor and grandmother
Sarah Fox
Author
M. D. Jackson
Publisher and Author
Miranda Krogstad
Author and TEDx speaker
Patti Lefkos
Writer and Journalist
Royden Lepp
Author and Illustrator
Jenny Lester
Bluegrass performer and recording artist
Natasha Mihell
Writer and Editor
Brandon Reid
Writer
John Vaillant
Author and freelance writer

Special presentation by award winning author John Vaillant
Sunday May 18th 9:00am at the Salmon Arm Recreation Centre. Admission by donation. All proceeds to the Shuswap Preparedness Fund.
John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others.
His first book, The Golden Spruce (Knopf, 2005), was a bestseller and won several awards, including the Governor General’s and Rogers Trust awards for non-fiction.
His second non-fiction book, The Tiger (Knopf, 2010), won the B.C. Achievement Award for Non-Fiction, was a bestseller selected for Canada Reads, and has been published in 17 languages.

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