• Chaos, collage, & our disparate selves - a poetry workshop with Wanda Praamsma

    Saturday, April 5, 2025

    2:00 to 4:00 p.m.  

    Almonte Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Language of the Heart - a poetry workshop with Kimberley Murphy

    Saturday, April 12, 2025

    1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

    Perth Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Recovering Language when Words Fail Us - a creative writing workshop with Peter Winfield

    Saturday, May 10, 2025

    2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

    Almonte Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Exercising Daemons / Exorcising Demons - writing life and writing horror with Sean Moreland

    Saturday, May 24, 2025

    1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

    Perth Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Leaving Room for the Illustrator in Picture Book Writing - a children's book workshop with Laura Piggot

    Saturday, June 7, 2025

    1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

    Perth Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Writing Outside the Cage - with Merilyn Simonds

    Sunday, June 8, 2025

    10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

    Almonte Public Library

    Pre-registration required

  • Telling the Stories of Our Lives - with Wayne Grady

    Sunday, June 8, 2025

    1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

    Almonte Public Library

    Pre-registration required

The 2025 Lanark Lit Festival of Writing is presented by Almonte Readers & Writers thanks to the generous funding support of Lanark County, the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, the Perth & District Community Foundation, and the Elizabeth Kelly Library Foundation, with community partnership from the Mississippi Mills Public Library, the Perth & District Public Library, Mill Street Books, Almonte Writers Guild, and with the community support of Equator Coffee, OVC Almonte, Jazzy’s Brewhaus and other local partners