The Whistler Writers Festival unveiled its 2019 author lineup on Monday, Aug. 12.
This year's authors include Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of the YA novel
The Marrow Thieves; crime novelist Andrew Pyper; poet Lorna Crozier; CBC Radio host and writer Jim Brown; award-winning journalist Omar El Akkad; Academy Award-nominated author Emma Donoghue, who wrote Room; and bestselling novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda, to name just a few.
In total, 70 authors, publishers and guest presenters will take part in the festival from Oct. 17 to 20.
For more information, or to purchase festival passes and tickets, visit whistlerwritersfest.com.
