Festival of Stories

Featured author/presenters:  Sonia Day    2025 GardenComm Gold Laurel Medal for Garden Fiction for  The Newfoundland Lunch Party: A Sisters of the Soil Novel – with Recipes, which blends storytelling, gardening, and culinary inspiration.

Local author sale and spotlight:  10 local authors reading from their works and selling their stories.

Author panel: Writing the World from West Grey         
Alanna Rusnak   West Grey Library’s author-in-residence; owner, Chicken House Press; latest novel:  When the Trees All Burned, “… a meditation on grief, purpose, and human resilience in the face of environmental collapse”

                                   Jenny Parsons    Visual and performing artist and magician, author of Higgsfield Follies

                                   Pat Crocker        Herbalist, educator, home economist, author of 13 cooking and herb-related books, including The Juicing Bible, The Healing Herbs Cookbook

 Featured author/presenter         Beth Kaplan  Former actor, educator, memoirist; books include:  Midlife Solo: Writing through chaos to find my place in the world; Loose Woman: My Odyssey from Lost to Found; True to Life: 50 steps to help you tell your story and