Wordfest presents Mona Awad

Wordfest presents Mona Awad

“Bunny & I are a little emotional, Bunny, not only because our book is so very beautiful but because this book is our heart & we can't wait to share it with you!” And Wordfest can't wait to share We Love You, Bunny and its indescribably wondrous creator Mona Awad with her Calgary fans. The New Yorker calls it, “A work of toothsome and fanged intelligence....wickedly hilarious.” Watch Mona’s deliciously deranged book announcement here. 

We'll be celebrating this prequel/sequel to the 2019 viral sensation Bunny with our version of the Bunny-verse (hosted by Shelley Youngblut). The experience includes an audience Q&A and book signing, fuelled by Shelf Life Books. You can pre-order books by Mona Awad here. We beseech you to watch Mona’s deliciously deranged book announcement here. 

Our thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada for making it possible to connect you with Mona Awad.

About We Love You, Bunny

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny: a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.”

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samatha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.

About Mona Awad

Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels We Love You, Bunny, Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.

Website: monaawadauthor.com
Instagram/Threads: @misss_read

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 is a former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM and appears frequently on CBC Calgary.

Facebook @ShelleyYoungblut
Instagram/Threads: @youngblutshelley
Bluesky: @youngblut.bsky.social 

Be Curiouser

• Bunny: An Interview with Mona Awad. –Prism International
• Read Your Way Through Montreal. –The New York Times Book Review
• 'Fat' Barbie Could Be Our New Cultural Muse. –Time
• My Summer of Hitchcock and Cold Cherries. –The New York Times Magazine
• Read an Excerpt from Mona Awad’s Literary Thriller We Love You Bunny. –People