Stories For Such A Time As This

The 10th Annual Fiction Festival took place Saturday, March 14th, 2026. Ben Palpant joined us once again (along with his daughter Kiale) to speak on “Stories For Such A Time As This.”

Talks

• Sean Higgins – Fiction for Unfavourable Conditions or, Human Imagination in a World of Artificial Intelligence
• Ben Palpant – Marysville, Gateway to the World: There are no little places.
• Ben Palpant – Give Me This Mountain: An Argument for Old Men to Be Explorers.
• Ben Palpant – Talking to Animals: The shaping power of Children’s stories.
• Q and A with the Speakers