{"id":7278,"date":"2024-05-08T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2024-05-08T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:14:19","slug":"port-medway-readers-festival-announces-2024-author-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/port-medway-readers-festival-announces-2024-author-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Medway Readers Festival announces 2024 author lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7280\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7280\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/readersfest-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/readersfest-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/readersfest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/readersfest-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/readersfest.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port Medway Readers Festival has announced its 2024 lineup.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Port Medway Readers Festival has announced its lineup of guest authors for their 2024 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual literary event began in 2002 and allows literature lovers to meet writers in an intimate, friendly setting in the village of Port Medway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Past festivals have featured Margaret Atwood, Tomson Highway, Jane Urquhart and many other renowned and best-selling writers, poets and playwrights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, the festival will welcome Rosemary Sullivan, author of the memoir Where the World Was, on July 20; Michael Crummey, with his new novel The Adversary, on Aug. 17; Holly Hogan with her non-fiction work, Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist, on Aug. 18, and Alexander MacLeod, reading from his new book of short stories, Animal Person, on Aug. 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tickets go on sale Mon., May 13 at 6 p.m. You can find more information about the Port Medway Readers Festival on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PortMedwayFest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/portmedwayreadersfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portmedwayreadersfestival.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Medway Readers Festival has announced its lineup of guest authors for their 2024 season. The annual literary event began in 2002 and allows literature lovers to meet writers in an intimate, friendly setting in the village of Port Medway. 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