Power Editors Power Hour

FRIDAY, OCT 18 @ 4:30PM FREE
Memorial Park Library, Alexander Calhoun Salon, Main Floor
1221 2 St SW

NEW SHOW!

When we have two of the most accomplished and well-respected editors in the business in Calgary at the same time, how could we resist creating a new opportunity to listen, laugh, and learn from the best? Ann VanderMeer laid the groundwork for the current modern horror craze as the editor of Weird Tales, winning a Hugo (we’ll talk about early submissions from a then-unknown Stephen Graham Jones). And she’s an expert in classic and modern science fiction and fantasy, as well as introducing North American audiences to international stars in translation.

If you’re a Canadian author, you want to join the select club of writers Anne Collins edits, which includes Wordfest faves Jann Arden, Cherie Dimaline, Roméo Dallaire, Carol Off, Eden Robinson, Martha Wainwright, and Ian Williams. Oh, and she also worked her magic with Barry Lopez, Richard Powers, and Patti Smith.

These powerhouse Ann(es) come with decades of wit and wisdom, so we expect a refreshingly bracing Happy Hour.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 60-minute conversation (think Master Class)
• Geared for audience participation
• Come curious and open
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
• Post-Show signing and 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.