gritLIT 2011
Snapshots of the 2011 gritLIT Literary Festival. Photo credits go to Ashley Hisson.
Our general manager, Jennifer Gillies, put together a lovely display of this year's books at Central Library.
Karen Solie reads from her latest collection, Pigeon, at the Poetry Evening with the Hamilton Poetry Centre.
Evelyn Lau reads from Living Under Plastic at the Poetry Evening.
Local poet, Gary Barwin reads from The Porcupinity of the Stars at Thursday's Poetry Evening.
Trevor Cole reads from Practical Jean at our Fiction evening, Some Cole for a Winters' Night.
Kathleen Winter reads from Annabel at our Friday night Fiction event.
Michael Winter finished off the reading section of Some Cole for a Winters' Night with The Death of Donna Whalen.
The evening concluded with an audience Q&A session.
Jean Rae Baxter kicked off the Sunday night joint event with LitLive with her book Broken Trail.
Howard Richler entertained the audience with selections from Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words.
Catherine Graham read from her poetry collection Winterkill.
After a short intermission, Ian Burgham, author of The Grammar of Distance, continued the LitLive event.
Shaena Lambert read from her novel Radiance.
And Roy Miki closed out the festival with There.
