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Chris Kraus & the Wordfest Universe

For every show, we commission a special genre reel featuring book jacket artwork of past Wordfest alumni to show how all of the stars presented on our stages are deeply interconnected — whether thematically or by genre or through the range of audience enthusiasms each author brings to the conversation.

See the Author in Calgary

Get tickets to see Chris Kraus’ Wordfest show on Feb 3, 2026! 

We’ve been trying to entice Chris Kraus to Calgary for a decade. And we’re not alone in our excitement about her new book, The Four Spent The Day Together, which The New Yorker describes as “reinventing the true crime novel.”

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In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 6, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.

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