Wordfest acknowledges the support of the following public organizations
Thank you to our founding partner
Kudos to the following private funders
Festival Bookseller
Festival Hotel
Libations Bar Sponsor
Venue Partner
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Event Sponsor
Festival Audio Bookseller
Travel Partners
Ticketing Partner
Special Sauce Partners
Publishers in the Spotlight in 2024
Anchor Books • Anvil Press • Arsenal Pulp Press • Biblioasis • Book*hug Press • Bookland Press • Clarion Books • Cormorant Books • Chronicle Books • Dial Press • Doubleday Canada • Drawn & Quarterly • Dundurn-Rare Machines • ECW Press • Ember Books • Freehand Books • Goose Lane Editions • Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Canada) • Greystone Books • Grove (Black Cat) • Hamish Hamilton • HarperCollins Canada • Harper Alley • Harper Avenue • Harper Perennial • HarperTeen • Henry Holt and Co. • Hingston & Olsen • House of Anansi • House of Anansi-Arachnide Editions • Invisible Publishing • Kids Can Press • Knopf Canada • Le Cheval d’août • Little Brown Books for Young Readers • Lorene Shyba-Uproot • McClelland & Stewart • McGill-Queen’s University Press • Nightwood Editions • Orca Book Publishers • Penguin Canada • Penguin Random House Canada • Portage & Main-Highwater Press• Publishers Group Canada Books • Publications Zinc • Raincoast Books • Rise x Penguin Workshop • Rocky Mountain Books • Saga Press • Scribner Books • Simon & Schuster Canada • Scout Press • St. Martin’s Press • Taddle Creek • Tundra Books • Thistledown Press • University of Alberta Press • University of Regina Press • Véhicule Press • Vintage • Viking • Wolsak & Wynn-Buckrider Books
Media & Print Partners
Wordfest Board
Janet Hutchinson, Chair
John Richardson, Secretary / Treasurer
Gillian Lawrence, Board Member
Robert Macaulay, Board Member
Monti Tanner, Board Member
Wordfest Team
Shelley Youngblut, CEO & Creative Ringleader
Everett Wilson, Senior Director, Operations & Development
Chelsea Rule, Director, Community Engagement & Special Sauce
Rita Sirignano, Programming Associate & Youth Program Director
Calum Maunier, Technical Director
Paula Turcotte, Youth Programming Associate
Blake Cochlan, Design Associate
Corrine Lung, Box Office & Front of House Associate
Bahareh ZabihiAali, Video Production Associate
Alex Kingcott, Media & Social Engagement Director
Justine Hesch, Media & Social Engagement
Vaughn Kelly, Media & Social Engagement
Saba Faw, Media & Social Engagement
David Kostibe, Lead Photographer
Erica Guan, Imaginairium Artist Illustrations
Jason Logan & Lux Logan, Creative Direction
Festival Support
Boyer Absolu (Tech) • Clare Seelman (Tech) • Eden Middleton (Tech) • Katriona Dunn (Tech) • Marlo Hepburn (Tech) • Erica Guan (Author Illustrations) • Barry Bortnick (Transportation) • Treasure Ducharme (Transportation) • Maureen Hodgan (Artist Liaison) • Debbie McNaughton (Artist Liaison) • Lindsay Allison (Front of House) • Janis Isaman (Photography)