The Ottawa International Writers Festival Silent Auction

August 25, 2009 · Filed Under Blog, Festivals and Events

We’d like to pass along this note on behalf of our friends at The Ottawa International Writers Festival.

The Ottawa International Writers Festival is a force for literacy, and not only through its festival programming. Its Step into Stories festival brings the world’s best writers and illustrators into contact with young readers, many from disadvantaged schools. The festival, with its literacy partners, is working to create opportunities for readers and writers who have been pushed to the margins for too long.

And you can help.

This year’s spring edition of the festival featured a silent auction to raise funds for the festival’s literacy programming. It was a lot of fun and bidding was intense on items such as the leather-bound Pauline Johnson donated by Charlotte Gray, and the train trip to Toronto to have lunch with seven Canadian writers.

So for this year’s fall festival, we’re doing it again. We need friends of the Festival to donate signed books, early editions, advanced reading copies, photographs, artwork, CDs or tickets to local performances and museums. Ideally, the item for sale should have some connection to the festival, or at the very least to the writing life, but that connection can be … creative.

Let’s see if we can beat our own record and raise even more for literacy this time around.

Please contact Kate Heartfield at kheartfield@thecitizen.canwest.com before Sept. 17. 2009, and let her know what you have to donate.

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