WEDNESDAY MAY 9th
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Screening of Tramp at the Door & Lise Gaboury-Diallo Talk at Cinematheque (Sponsored by: Université de Saint-Boniface & On Screen Manitoba) |
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Opening reception at the Free Press Cafe (Sponsor: Winnipeg Free Press) |
| 8:30 – 10:00 | New Voices: Writers Under-30 Reading (Sponsor: Winnipeg Free Press) |
THURSDAY MAY 10th
| 8:30 – 8:45 AM | Welcome and registration at CMU Great Hall | ||
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening ceremonies | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Thirty Remarkable Manitoba Books – Victor Enns | ||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Publishing Manitoba Writers Panel (Sponsor: Friesens Printing) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | BREAK | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Mennonite Lunch at CMU | ||
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Keynote: Marta Dvořák (Sponsor: Centre of Creative Writing and Oral Culture & Anonymous) | ||
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Session 1 in C167 Session 2 in B126 |
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| 3:15 – 3:45 | BREAK | ||
| 3:45 – 5:00 | Session 3 in C167 Session 4 in B126 |
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| 5:00 – 6:30 | Dinner at CMU | ||
| 7:30 |
Voices 2 Reading: David Bergen, Méira Cook, Struan Sinclair, Joan Thomas, Sarah Klassen |
FRIDAY MAY 11th
| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Coffee and registration at CMU Great Hall | ||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Aboriginal Writing in Manitoba Panel (Sponsor: Assiniboine Credit Union) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | BREAK | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Aboriginal Lunch at CMU | ||
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Keynote: Dick Harrison (Sponsor: University of Winnipeg) | ||
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Non-Fiction Panel (Sponsor: Brandon University) Session 6 in C167 Session 7 in B126 |
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| 3:15 – 3:45 | BREAK | ||
| 3:45 – 5:00 | Session 8 in C167 Session 9 in B126 |
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| 5:00 – 6:30 | Dinner at CMU | ||
| 7:30 |
Voices 3 Reading: Sandra Birdsell, Emma LaRocque, Keith Cadieux, Jake McDonald, David Arnason |
SATURDAY MAY 12th
| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Coffee and registration at CMU Great Hall |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Franco-Manitoba Literature 101 presented by J. Roger Léveillé |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | BREAK |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Paper sur Lise Gaboury-Diallo |
| 11:15 – 12:00PM | Francophone Readings & Readings |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | French Lunch at CMU |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Keynote: Ted Dyck (Sponsor: University of Manitoba) |
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Session 10 in C167 Session 11 in B126 |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | BREAK |
| 3:45 – 5:00 | What you said, what I heard: Myrna Kostash |
| 5:30 – 7:30 | Banquet & Keynote: Aritha Van Herk (Sponsor: Investors Group) |
| 8:00 |
Cabaret at the West End Cultural Center featuring Charlene Diehl, Steve Kirby, Patrick Friesen & Marilyn Lerner, Margaret Sweatman & the Glenn Buhr Band, & Tomson Highway and band(Sponsored by: Manitoba Lotteries Corporation). |
