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| Time | Poster | Event | Venue | Cat. | Size | Age |
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| 8:30am8:30Until 10:00. |  | Strange Pilgrims For aspiring Canadian screen or TV writers, Hollywood is the north star. Getting there is a combination of hard work, talent, and luck. Coming back is a whole other thing. Alex Pugsley continues the…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 8:30am8:30Until 5:00. |  | Advanced Fiction New to the festival for 2026, this Advanced Fiction Workshop is a limited-enrollment, full-day intensive session for serious emerging writers. Led by award-winning novelist and short story writer…
| Kingston Marriott - Rideau RoomKingston Marriott - Rideau Room285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | RegularRegular | Not listed |
| 10:30am10:30Until 12:00. |  | A Fan's Life What happened to the sports we used to love? And the way we used to love them? Giller Prize-nominee David Macfarlane explores these questions in On Sports, a nostalgic yet sharp look at the games that…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 10:30am10:30Until 12:00. |  | An Item and a Journey Physical objects can hold great emotional power. Each participant in this workshop will bring an item of emotional significance and will write two pieces in which the item plays a role. The first will…
| Kingston MarriottKingston Marriott285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | SmallSmall | Not listed |
| 1:30pm1:30Until 3:00. |  | Poets in a Strange Land Join acclaimed author Camilla Gibb and former Kingston Poet Laureate Jason Heroux as they discuss their new collections. Blending Gibb's profound anthropological insight with Heroux's signature…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 1:30pm1:30Until 2:30. |  | Reading the Continent Each of the three countries that occupy the place we call North America are uniquely different cultures with their own individual literatures. Join Merilyn Simonds as she explores how three classic…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 1:30pm1:30Until 3:00. |  | Writing the Self Writing yourself in a memoir or personal essay is a daunting challenge. Through a mixture of lecture, discussion, and generative writing exercises, participants in this 90-minute workshop will explore…
| Kingston Marriott - Rideau RoomKingston Marriott - Rideau Room285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | RegularRegular | Not listed |
| 3:30pm3:30Until 5:00. |  | Reckonings Experience a powerful evening of storytelling with award-winning authors Tara Gereaux and Wayne Johnston, author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Johnston's new novel, The Novice of Holloway Hall…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 3:30pm3:30Until 5:00. |  | Building Better Stories for Screen Whether a half-hour comedy, one-hour drama, or a two-hour feature film, all narratives adhere to the rules of dramatic storytelling. What are those rules? And how can you use them to diagnose…
| Kingston Marriott - Rideau RoomKingston Marriott - Rideau Room285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | RegularRegular | Not listed |
| 7:00 pm7:00Until 8:30. |  | Our Reconstructions How do the stories we inherit shape who we become? Kingston WritersFest is thrilled to present, a special evening with literary legends Helen Humphreys and Judith Thompson. Helen Humphreys introduces…
| Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom CKingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom C285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | BigBig | Not listed |
| 7:00 pm7:00Until 11:59. | THE SEPTEMBER(ISH) TO REMEMBER --> ALL ACCESS PASS Why settle for one night when you can have ALL THREE?!
| Jack's KingstonJack's Kingston330 King Street East, Kingston, ON K7L 1R8 | MusicMusicLive music: gigs, concerts, open mics. | SmallSmall | Not listed | |
| 7:05 pm7:05 | Kingston Frontenacs vs. Peterborough Petes Children under 4 years old may enter without a ticket but must sit on the lap of an accompanying adult. All children over 4 years old MUST have a valid ticket for a specific seat location and be…
| Slush Puppie PlaceSlush Puppie Place1 The Tragically Hip Way, Kingston | SportsSportsGames, matches and races. | MajorMajor | Not listed | |
| 8:30 pm8:30Until 10:30. |  | The Page on Stage The Page On Stage is no ordinary reading. We're taking the funniest, saddest, cleverest, weirdest, most powerful passages from the books featured at Kingston WritersFest and bringing them to dramatic…
| The RCHA ClubThe RCHA Club193 Ontario St, Kingston | CommunityCommunityClasses, markets, meet-ups and community gatherings. | RegularRegular | 19+19+ |
Ongoing 1 · festivals, exhibitions and runs that started earlier and are still on
| Time | Poster | Event | Venue | Cat. | Size | Age |
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| 8:30am8:30Until 6:00. |  | 2026 KWF Festival Pass We are delighted to welcome you to Kingston WritersFest 2026, taking place from October 1-4, 2026! At this year's festival you'll find familiar events featuring literary favourites, and new authors…
| Kingston MarriottKingston Marriott285 King St E, Kingston | FestivalFestivalFestival programmes and multi-day events. | SmallSmall | Not listed |
Nights run to 5 AM. A 1 AM show is listed under the evening it started.