Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts board member Sean Eckford looks back on some highlights from the 2024 festival. For news, updates, tikcet and lineup information visit www.writersfestival.ca

Festival board member Sean Eckford and Artistic and Executive Director Marisa Alps look ahead to the 2024 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, August 15 -18. www.writersfestival.ca

Festival board member Sean Eckford presents highlights of day three of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts.

Festival Board member Sean Eckford presents highlights of day two of the 2023 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Festival board member Sean Eckford presents highlights of day one of the 2023 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Here's the link to the Globe and Mail opinion piece by John Vaillant https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-wait-and-see-approach-wont-cut-it-for-todays-intense-wildfires/

Festival board member Sean Eckford and Artistic and Executive Director Marisa Alps preview the 2023 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. For more information visit www.writersfestival.ca

Festival board member Sean Eckford presents highlights from the final day of the 2022 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Festival board member Sean Eckford reviews Day Two of the 2022 festival. Link: Here's the Globe and Mail story mentioned in our interview with Marsha Lederman https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-salman-rushdie-attack-new-york/

Festival board member Sean Eckford presents highlights from the first day of the 2022 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is marking 40 years of bringing Canadian readers and writers together, so instead of the Festival preview podcast we usually release this time of year we're taking you on an audio tour of our history. Part 2 tells the story of Jane Davidson's 15 years with the Festival, the Legacy of Literacy, the impact of the pandemic and the appointment of our new Artistic and Executive Director, who takes the reins in the fall, and festival memories through the voices of Jane, past presidents Jean Bennet and Wendy Hunt, incoming AED Marisa Alps, a few of our past authors and the Founding Mothers. Visit www.writersfestival.ca for information on this year's line up, tickets and more!

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary, so instead of the usual Festival preview episode of our podcast we're taking you on an audio tour of our history. Part 1 tells the story of the Festival's birth and its near death through the voices of our Founding Mothers and past president Wendy Hunt. Visit www.writersfestival.ca for information on this year's program, tickets and more!

SCFWA artistic and executive director Jane Davidson and board president John Lussier join Sean Eckford for a preview of the 2021 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, which opens July 4.

FOWA board member Sean Eckford and artistic and executive director Jane Davidson mark what would have been the opening of Festival 2020 with a conversation about the anthology project we've just embarked on that will see some of our 2020 writers reflect on this very unusual year. Visit the festival website at www.writersfestival.ca, follow us on Twitter at @SCFWA and look for us on Facebook

In the first Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts podcast of 2020, Sean Eckford sits down (remotely) with festival board president John Lussier and artistic and executive director Jane Davidson to talk about the decision to cancel the 2020 event and all the things the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is working on, despite the disruption caused by the pandemic. Visit the festival website at www.writersfestival.ca, follow us on Twitter at @SCFWA and look for us on Facebook.

FOWA board member Sean Eckford looks back on the final day of the 2019 Festival of the Written Arts

Board member Sean Eckford looks back on Day Two of the 2019 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

SCFWA board member Sean Eckford looks back at Day One of the 2019 Festival of the Written Arts

Festival director Sean Eckford and producer Jane Davidson chat about the upcoming 2019 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Visit www.writersfestival.ca for all the information on authors, the venue and ticket sales.

Writers Festival director Sean Eckford looks back at the final day of the 2018 FOWA

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts director Sean Eckford looks back on day two of the 2018 festival

Festival director Sean Eckford looks back on the first full day of the 2018 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Festival board member Sean Eckford sits down with Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts producer Jane Davidson for a look ahead to the 2018 festival, which opens August 16

Festival of the Written Arts board member, and podcast producer, Sean Eckford presents highlights and interviews from day 3 of the 2017 festival.

Festival of the Written Arts board member, and podcast producer, Sean Eckford looks back at a few highlights from day 2 of the 2017 FOWA

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts board member and podcast producer Sean Eckford with highlights from the first full day of our 35th Anniversary Festival

Sean Eckford sits down with Festival of the Written Arts producer Jane Davidson for a preview of the 2017 festival, which is less than a month away! www.writersfestival.ca

The Sunday, and final, podcast from the 2016 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Here's our podcast wrap up of the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts for Saturday Aug 13. This is a link to the poem by Guy Gavriel Kay we mention: http://www.queensu.ca/quarterly/sum1618kay.html

The Friday podcast from the 2016 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

Welcome to our first Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts podcast for 2016. Sean Eckford chats with producer Jane Davidson for a preview of the August 11-14 events, and a special pre-festival show – Tomboy Survival Guide, with Ivan Coyote and an all-tomboy band (Alison Gorman, Sally Zori and Pebbles Wilekes) – coming up July 23. Find out more about this year’s festival at www.writersfestival.ca , where you’ll also find links to our daily podcasts from the 2015 festival (in the Festival News section) We're also on Facebook and Twitter (@SCFWA)