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. A former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM, she was also a frequent contributor to CBC Calgary’s The Eyeopener, The Homestretch, and Daybreak Alberta.
Starring Miriam Toews. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut. [SOLD OUT]
Starring Kelly Hill. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut [NEW SHOW]
Starring Emma Donoghue. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Starring Jennifer Lambert, Bianca Marais & Stephanie Sinclair. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Starring Gabrielle Hamilton. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut [NEW TIME]
NOTE: 7PM START. Starring Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Scott Anderson, Gabrielle Drolet & David Moscrop. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
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