Stephen Kimber at Halifax International Writers’ Festival

by Stephen Kimber on March 31, 2006 | 1 Comment

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Stephen Kimber will be one of more than a dozen writers featured during this year's second annual Halifax International Writers' Festival at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax from April 5-9.

• On Sunday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. Kimber will read and discuss his new novel, Reparations.

• On Thursday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m., he will appear with American novelist Brad Kessler on a panel discussing "It's all in the Details: Making Real Life into Fiction." Kessler's latest novel, Birds in Fall, is a fictional account of the 1998 Swissair plane crash off Nova Scotia, which was also the subject of one of Kimber's earlier nonfiction books, Flight 111.

You'll find more information on the panel as well as a complete schedules of Festival events at the Halifax International Writers' Festival web site.

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  STEPHEN KIMBER, the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of one novel -- Reparations -- and eight non-fiction books.