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Thank you for joining us for an evening with Ruth Reichl that no one wanted to end. Please savour these links to stories mentioned by Ruth, who fell in love with our city and all of you. Ruth’s Best Brownie Ever Recipe Ruth’s current top 3 restaurants in NYC Crown...Read More
Listen to “Wordfest Presents: The 2017 Poetry Cabaret” on Spreaker. *This episode contains explicit content* A subversive cocktail of poetic voices served with a dash of bitters and a zesty twist. Each of these talented authors brings to the Wordfest stage a unique perspective on topics ranging from feminism, LGBTQ+...Read More
Listen to “Wordfest Presents: How to Fall in Love with Anyone” on Spreaker. Have you ever asked a stranger 36 questions, stared into their eyes for four minutes, and then fell in love? Author Mandy Len Catron did just that and wrote a book called, How to Fall in Love...Read More
(Calgary, AB — Sunday, October 15) At the “Family Ties” event at the Glenbow Museum Theatre this weekend as part of the 22nd annual Festival, Wordfest announced Joey Comeau as the 2017 Anne Green Award recipient. The annual award is given to an artist whose work explores and challenges the...Read More
We are giving you an insider’s look into the 2017 Wordfest festival. From Oct. 9-15 the most delicious writers from Canada and the rest of the world will be serving up life-changing ideas at theatres around Calgary. Thank you for sharing your most anticipated authors with us! We can’t wait...Read More
For volume 2 of the Summer Reads Threesome, we dove into Nicole Lundrigan’s novel, The Substitute, a finely crafted page-turner and a chilling look into the mind of a psychopath.
Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of New York City’s renowned restaurant, Prune, treated Calgary audiences to a delicious conversation in the Wordfest Engagement Lab on July 14th, 2017. A James Beard Foundation winner, she is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of...Read More
Wordfest presented the 3rd edition of Dick Lit’s Trivia Night with host Richard Kemick and author Mark Kingwell. All trivia questions were loosely inspired by Kingwell’s latest novel Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters
This summer, join Calgary’s hottest book club ever – the perfect threesome for book lovers! Volume 1 of the Summer Reads Threesome, we dove into Zoey Leigh Peterson’s first novel, Next Year, For Sure.
There’s something for everyone at Wordfest, which is why you won’t want to pass on this opportunity to bring your message to our growing circles of enthusiastic fans. Our 68-page Festival Guide is a full-colour, high-gloss keepsake and promotional piece profiling all 80+ artists and books appearing in dozens of Wordfest events from October 10 to 15, 2017.
In the greatest double header of the season, Mark Kingwell and Stacey May Fowles knocked the cover off the ball in the Wordfest Lab at Memorial Park Library. Both heavy hitters presented new books that toss a curve ball into our attitudes about baseball, both on and off the field,...Read More