GG award celebrations

Wordfest presents the GG Podcast


Congrats GG winners!

Congratulations to Wordfest 2015’s Guy Vanderhaeghe for winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, in the English fiction category. See the list of all 2015 GG winners in English and French at ggbooks.ca.

Listen to the GG Podcast





Since 2011, Wordfest and CJSW 90.9FM have partnered each year to produce The GG Podcast to commemorate the Governor General’s Literary Awards.

Listen to past episodes on iTunes and the GG Podcast page hosted on CJSW.com.

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or visit the GG Podcast page on CJSW.

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About the GG Podcast

Wordfest selects and interviews writers from its annual Festival who have received a GG award in various categories.

The interviews explore the writing process, the impact of winning a Governor General’s Literary Award and the contribution of the literary arts to Canada’s cultural landscape.

Past Episodes

2014
Round Table Discussion
Rudy Wiebe
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kenneth Oppel
Kate Pullinger
Kim Thuy
Miriam Toews
2014 Teaser Episode

2013
Glen Huser
Barbara Reid
Wallace Edwards
Marie-Louise Gay
Round Table Discussion
2013 Teaser Episode

2012
Andrew Nikiforuk
Phil Hall
Lorna Crozier
MG Vassanji
Douglas Glover
2012 Teaser Episode

2011
Peter Behrens
Dany Laferrière
Arthur Slade
Miriam Toews
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Adrienne Clarkson
2011 Teaser Episode