Staff & Board

Festival Staff Jana O’Connor (Executive Director) Jana brings decades of experience as an Edmonton artist, event producer, administrator, and communications professional to this role, including positions with the Edmonton Arts Council, NAIT, and the City of Edmonton. She is nationally-known for her contributions as a writer and performer on CBC Radio One. Jana is the recipient […]

The Library of Redonda – A Pop Up Exhibit

Michael Hingston’s book Try Not to Be Strange tells the unbelievable true story of the Kingdom of Redonda, a semi-fictitious kingdom of writers who’ve claimed to rule over an uninhabited island in the Caribbean over the past 150 years. The Library of Redonda is a unique display of some of the rare, unique, and just plain odd items accumulated over […]

The Library of Redonda – A Pop Up Exhibit

Michael Hingston’s book Try Not to Be Strange tells the unbelievable true story of the Kingdom of Redonda, a semi-fictitious kingdom of writers who’ve claimed to rule over an uninhabited island in the Caribbean over the past 150 years. The Library of Redonda is a unique display of some of the rare, unique, and just plain odd items accumulated over […]

Masterclass: How to Write About Your Family and Still have One: Collective Experience and Memoir

In this 90 minute round table workshop, Margaret Macpherson, (Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of A Settler Girlhood, NeWest) will use prompts and writing exercises to illuminate the ways in which writers can illustrate their work with lived experience while still guarding the intimate identities of others.