October 2003

Horizons was delighted to learn that one of the guest contribitors to this year’s upcoming year’s Writers & Friends, eminent historian Margaret MacMillan, has just been nominated for the Governor General’s Prize for Literature, non-fiction, for her book, Paris 1919, Six Months That Changed the World.

Over the past year, Professor MacMillan has received many awards in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. for her recent work of history about the extraordinary personalities who came together after the First World War to “carve up empires and shape peace.” Paris 1919 has received the Samuel Johnson Prize, The PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, The Duff Cooper Prize, and was named “Best Book of the Year” by the Daily Telegraph.

Margaret MacMillan is professor of history at the Universiy of Toronto, Provost of Trinity College, and the great granddaughter of David Lloyd George.

For tickets to Writers & Friends, LeVan Hall Port Hope, November 16 with Margaret Macmillan, Nino Ricci, Donna Morrisey. David Macfarlane.
For tickets & information, call 1-888-729-9928.

WRITERS & FRIENDS, PORT HOPE, NOVEMBER 16, 2003

On Sunday November 16 you are invited to be part of a memorable literary evening. Port Hope’s 9th Annual Writers & Friends takes place this year at Le Van Hall, Trinity College School and features some of Canada’s most acclaimed authors.

Internationally celebrated historian MARGARET MACMILLAN
Trillium Prize winner NINO RICCI and
Popular Newfoundland novelist DONNA MORRISSEY
join Master of Ceremonies DAVID MACFARLANE in an evening of readings, music, gourmet buffet, book signings and a literary auction all on behalf of Horizons of Friendship.

Tickets $100 (tax receipt $60 approx.).
For information or to order tickets by credit card call 888-729-9928.

Literary Evening at LeVan Hall features acclaimed authors

This year’s featured authors are:

Margaret MacMillan, eminent historian, professor at the University of Toronto and author of the international bestseller, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. Hailed as a “fascinating, funny and scintillating” account of an epochal moment in twentieth century history, her landmark work of narrative history was non-fiction book of the year in Canada, the UK and US.

Donna Morrissey, award-winning author and Halifax based screenwriter whose first novel Kit’s Law attracted a large, devoted readership worldwide and inspired the popular talking book narrated by Mary Walsh. Her newest work, Downhill Chance, about life in pre- Confederation outports won the Radall Atlantic Fiction Prize. It is described as a dazzling oral folk epic by a “Newfoundland Thomas Hardy”.

Nino Ricci, one of Canada’s most respected writers, is a former Governor General’s award winner for his first novel, Lives of the Saints, and a Giller nominee for Where She Has Gone. He is co-recipient of the 2003 Trillium Prize for Testament, a powerful exploration of one man’s remarkable life and his impact on all that came after him. It is a historical novel of “extraordinary force, engaging the mind and the heart”.

In addition, Horizons is pleased to announce that award-winning author and national columnist David Macfarlane will be master of ceremonies. Special guests will be Ronald Wright, Farley and Claire Mowat.

The participation of all of these authors and the assistance of Trinity College School, along with the contribution of many community supporters and corporate sponsors signals the strong support enjoyed by Horizons of Friendship, now marking 30 years as one of Canada’s most highly praised international development organizations.

In addition to readings by our authors, this year by popular request, our Writers & Friends evening features a question and answer period. There will be music by Trinity’s wonderful musical ensembles, a fabulous gourmet buffet by Victor, book signings by our authors, book sales by Furby House Books and a unique silent auction including books donated by major publishers, specialty gifts, items of historic and artistic interest, and Central American folk art and craft items (enticements for early Christmas shoppers!)

Tickets are $100 (the same as last year) and an income tax receipt for $60 (approx.) will be provided. A limited number of tickets are now on sale at Furby House Books, Port Hope and at Cobourg Book Store and The Avid Reader, Cobourg. For more information or to order by credit card, call Horizons 905-372-5483 or toll free at 888-729-9928.

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The goal of Horizons of Friendship is to help Central American and Mexican communities meet their basic needs as expressed by the people. With local partners, Horizons supports low-cost housing, health services, clean water, food production, literacy and education. The projects provide entire communities with the potential for self-sufficiency through training and income-generating opportunities. Horizons is a community-based international development organization and federally registered charity, founded in 1973 by three volunteers from Cobourg.

Writers & Friends has helped provide significant assistance for eight years now to impoverished areas in Central America and Mexico, for communities coping with decades of natural disasters and political upheavals. Participants on Horizons’ recent exposure tours to El Salvador and Nicaragua saw first hand the natural and man-made challenges faced by the people there. They witnessed the results of earthquakes, droughts, the aftermath of hurricanes and how critical food shortages are compounded by the economic crisis faced by coffee growers. Writers & Friends 2003 will help Horizons to continue to make a difference.

For more information contact: Doreen Gorsline
Writers & Friends
Horizons of Friendship
905-372-5483
dgorsline@horizons.ca