BARRIE NORTH COLLEGIATE'S iDeology Program & The 5th ANNUAL - "L3: WRITERS' CONFERENCE" ONCE AGAIN WELCOMES SOME OF CANADA'S FINEST AUTHORS, POETS, NOVELISTS, JOURNALISTS & AND ACTIVISTS TO BARRIE.

DAYTIME PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS:  see 'Author Profiles' & 'Schedule & Registration' - (see above).

EVENING PROGRAM: 
OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC - Adults and students welcome

*tickets available (BEGINNING March 2012) @
"Page & Turners' Book Store" - Dunlop St., Barrie or AT THE DOOR
$20/adults  &  $10/students

QUESTIONS:  email or call Brian Adduono
badduono@mail.scdsb.on.ca - 705-726-6541

DOUGLAS GIBSON: www.douglasgibsonbooks.com www.douglasgibsonbooks.com/the-show - STORIES ABOUT STORYTELLERS: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Stephen Leacock, various Prime Ministers … "The ultimate CanLiT cocktail party book." – Quill & Quire

DAVE BIDINI: Globe and Mail Review CBC Review - WRITING GORDON LIGHTFOOT: The Man, the Music and the World in 1972 … "With this colourful , high energy writer at the wheel, it's a great ride." – Globe and Mail (Peter Feniak)

PRISCILA UPPAL: www.priscilauppal.ca Winter Sport Poems - WINTER SPORT: Poems – Poet in Residence to Vancouver Olympics, Paralympics, Rogers Cup Tennis … "Canada's coolest poet." – Time Out, London, UK

MARTHA SCHABAS: The Globe and Mail Review The National Post Review Open Book Toronto Interview - VARIOUS POSITIONS… "We tend to forget how ambition can fire the young, but Schabas' tale drives the point home." – Toronto Star (Nancy Wigston)