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The sixth annual CS Lewis Festival features about 20 events from Nov. 5-25 in the Petoskey, Harbor Springs and Charlevoix areas. Happenings include pub nights, lectures, a musical and a student writing program. The Lewis-centric festival honours and explores the contributions of the writer and theologian. CS Lewis wrote the immensely popular children’s series “The Chronicles of Narnia” and died in 1963. This year, the festival includes an appearance by David Barrett, who ... read more

The Chronicles of The Imaginarium Geographica feature CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as lead characters in a story that spans the world of fantasy and ours. The third book in the series, The Indigo King is now available to order from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, discover a plea for help on an ancient medieval parchment. It seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! But when they rush to ... read more

Every week beginning in 1933 and continuing until 1950, a group of college friends met to discuss current events and share their latest writings. They named themselves The Inklings, and their ranks included the great minds of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. Who were the Inklings? Eastern’s literary magazine is named after this great group of writers. Inklings publishes poetry, short stories and visual art from students and faculty at Eastern. They encourage everyone to submit. The magazine is ... read more

October 28th 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of George MacDonald’s landmark fantasy novel, Phantastes. One afternoon in March 1916, the seventeen-year-old CS Lewis picked up a copy of Phantastes from a railway station bookstall. As he read the book that night he felt as though everything had changed, as though he had ‘crossed a great frontier’; as though his imagination had been ‘baptised’. For the rest of his life Lewis remained under the spell of this great ... read more

An Australian woman who wrote a fantasy novel as a gift for her nine-year-old daughter could soon be joining the literary ranks of authors such as JK Rowling and CS Lewis. Avtar Kaur, 49, has written a children’s fantasy book called The Moon Mermaids. Now, literary agents are knocking on Ms Kaur’s door to acquire the intellectual property and publish it. The process has happened suddenly for Ms Kaur, who this week said she was coming to terms with her pending fame – and possible ... read more

Stan Howes of The Belfast Telegraph, discovers the first-rate tourist attraction that is the CS Lewis coach tour. See the best of Narnia in Belfast - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk ... read more

Pauline Baynes, the artist and illustrator who died on August 1 aged 85, brought the worlds of CS Lewis’s Narnia and JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth to life with her superb line drawings. In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to talk about some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him. These, it ... read more

A blue plaque has been put up at the Oxford home of CS Lewis, author of the popular “The Chronicles of Narnia” series. The plaque, a distinctive memorial denoting the location as historically significant, was unveiled at the start of a two-week conference in honour of Mr. Lewis. He lived at The Kilns, a cottage in Headington, Oxford while he taught at Oxford University. He wrote the entirety of his “Narnia” series while residing there. Stan Mattson, president of the ... read more

Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule (unabridged) has stormed to the top of the fantasy charts at Audible.co.uk Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Outcast by Michelle Paver Prince Caspian by CS Lewis Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett All the top ten are ... read more

Variety.com recently reported that Prince Caspian has added another $7 million this weekend to its international box office total, bringing its numbers up to $230 million overseas.  Prince Caspian has now grossed approximately $369.6 million worldwide. Prince Caspian opens on the 31st of July in Germany, Austria, and Slovenia. ... read more