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Wordfest 2018: A.J. Finn & Mary Kubica

Wordfest Podcast #4: The 2017 Poetry Cabaret

Wordfest Podcast #3: How to Fall in Love with Anyone

Joey Comeau named 2017 Anne Green Award Recipient

2017: Summer Reads Threesome Vol.3

2017: Summer Reads Threesome Vol.2

2017: Dick Lit’s Trivia Night #3

2017: Summer Reads Threesome Vol.1

Advertise in the 2017 Program Guide

2017: Mark Kingwell & Stacey May Fowles

Wordfest Podcast #1: Omar El Akkad

Mark Kingwell talking baseball on CBC Ideas

Rave reviews of American War by Omar El Akkad

2017: Emma Donoghue and Susin Nielsen

2017: Heather O’Neill (The Lonely Hearts Hotel)

Parking Information for the John Dutton Theatre

Getting to Memorial Park Library

2016 Recommended Halloween Reading

Wordfest 2016: Literary Death Match

Announcing Calgary’s Arts & Culture Library

Wordfest Kicks Off Oct. 7, 2016!

Meet Some of the Hosts at Wordfest 2016

Mark Leiren-Young Featured on CBC’s The Current

2016 Giller Nominees at Wordfest

Postal Disruption? Just in case…

The Wave by Susan Casey – Book Trailer

June is “Giving Challenge” Month

Have you Spotted an Early Bird Yet?

Review of Matrons and Madams by Sharon Johnston

Review of In-Between Days by Teva Harrison

Review of Edge of Wild by D.K. Stone

Review of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Review of Shylock Is My Name by Howard Jacobson

Micah White and Blake Brooker — Full Audio

Wordfest Youth 2016 Lineup — Sneak Peek

Review of Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

Review of The Ballroom by Anna Hope

Review of Careen by Carolyn Smart

Review of Black Apple by Joan Crate

Review of The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake

A Trilogy of Factoids on Guy Gavriel Kay

Wordfest is Hiring 3 Summer Student Interns

Young Adult Book Recommendations for 2016

Books from Wordfest’s Year-Round Series

Get to Know Sam Maggs, April 27

Parking and Biking Options for Micah White, April 15, 2016

Watch Micah White’s Interview with CBC

2016 Recommended reading on Sexual consent

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With gratitude, mutual respect, and reciprocity, we acknowledge the ancestral home, culture, and oral teachings of the Treaty 7 signatories which includes the Siksika Nation, Piikani Nation, Kainai Nation, the Îethka Stoney Nakoda Nation, consisting of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stoney Bands, and the people of the Tsuut’ina Nation. We also recognize the Métis people of Alberta Region 3 who call Treaty 7 their home.

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