An Evening with Alice Winn
THURSDAY, OCT 17 @ 7:30PM $25
Memorial Park Library, Festival Hub, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW
Wordfest’s Creative Ringleader Shelley Youngblut has not stopped thinking or raving about Alice Winn’s debut novel, In Memoriam, since she read it over the holiday break last year. The literary world was equally shaken to its core: the painstakingly researched book—which charts the unlikely love story of a pair of teens from their idyllic, privileged private college to the mud and gore of the Somme in the First World War—echoes Brideshead Revisited. It won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Novel of the Year in 2023, and was a Good Morning America book pick. So how did a dyslexic, then-30-year-old writer and screenwriter, born in Paris, educated at Marlborough College (the boarding school in her book) and Oxford, now living in Brooklyn, come to create a novel that transcends genre, stigma, and time?
NOTE: This show originally included comic author Liana Finck, who is no longer able to travel to Calgary and shares your disappointment. Ticket holders will receive a separate communication through Showpass about how to exchange their tickets to another Wordfest show during the Imaginairium festival. (But we really hope you won’t miss what will be a truly memorable conversation with Alice Winn.) For more information, please contact boxoffice@wordfest.com.
WHAT TO EXPECT
- 75-minute hosted conversation
- Audience Q&A
- Libations Bar, with non-alcoholic options
- Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
- Post-Show signing & author selfies
ABOUT HOST SHELLEY YOUNGBLUT
Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Youngblut was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swerve magazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living, and The Globe and Mail. She was also a former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM.
Facebook: @ShelleyYoungblut
Instagram/Threads: @youngblutshelley.
