Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts: Capsule Review

Readers I saw in descending order of my desire to make out with them:

Shane Koyczan
Michael Ondaatje
Drew Hayden Taylor
Chantal Hebert
David Chariandy
Paul Quarrington
John MacLachlan Gray
Dave Bidini
Will Ferguson/Tom Phillips/Josh Marantz
Zoe Whittall
Chris Wood
John Schreiner/Kenji Hodgson/James Nevison

Those above this line I would, on the whole, prefer to have made out with rather than not. Those below, I would, on the whole, give a miss to, although: buy me a drink.

Rex Weyler
Elizabeth Hay
Claire Mulligan
Bernice Morgan

Those who performed together are assumed to come as a package deal.

Note that Gail Anderson-Dargatz is disqualified because I only listened to her lecture from outside, and that I did not see Mike McCardell, Lorna Goodison, Mark Novik or William Deverell.

I have, of course, the most monumental intellectual respect for Michael Ondaatje. Shane's just smoochier.

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