Bending Genres
Lakefield College School Bryan Jones Theatre
Sat. July 20 @ 2:00 pm
Guests: Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti, co-authors of Bury The Lead, and Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Cold.
Moderator: Laura Gaughan
Elizabeth Renzetti & Kate Hilton, coauthors of Bury The Lead, and Drew Haydon Taylor, author of Cold, will read from their novels and discuss the ways in which they write beyond the bounds of genre.
Kate Hilton
Kate Hilton is the author of three previous novels under her own name as well as Bury The Lead, her recent collaboration with Elizabeth Renzetti.
When not writing or making media appearances, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching in the area of transformational change. No stranger to reinvention herself, Kate has had prior careers in law, university administration, publishing, and major gift fundraising.
Elizabeth Renzetti
A longtime columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail, Elizabeth Renzetti works today as a teacher, advocate and prolific writer. Two books she is publishing in 2024 reflect her diverse interests: What She Said: Conversations about Equality; and Bury the Lead, a genre-bending mystery that Elizabeth will be presenting in Lakefield along with co-author Kate Hilton.
Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor of nearby Curve Lake is well known in Lakefield, where he attended high school, and is now almost as well known around the world as one of Canada’s leading Indigenous storytellers. Working in fiction, theatre, series television and journalism, Drew is the author of more than 20 plays and five novels. His latest genre-bending novel, Cold, combines mystery, crime, comedy and horror into a gripping read that has become a national bestseller.
Laura Rock Gaughan
Lakefield author Laura Rock Gaughan’s fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared widely in Canadian and international literary journals and anthologies, as well as The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. She is the author of MOTHERISH, a short-story collection, and executive director of the Literary Press Group, a nonprofit association representing 65 independent Canadian publishers. A festival volunteer, Laura served on the board from 2015 to 2021.