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Partnered Event: Close Encounters of the Native Kind with Cody Caetano

Henderson Hall 114 and, 88 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB
Partnered Event

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 - 1:00 PM Location:  Henderson Hall, Rutherford Library South 1-17, University of Alberta Tickets: Free event with no registration / tickets required Close Encounters of the Native Kind explores boundaries between storytelling traditions, material and speculative realities, and what's said and unsaid in the growing native literary tradition. […]

Free

Feature: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, with Paul Myers

Maclab Theatre 9828 101A Ave
Feature

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE Author Paul Myers in conversation with Edmonton's Historian Laureate, Donna Coombs-Montrose.  From the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars. From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with […]

Partnered Event: Nonfiction Story Slam

9910 910 109 St NW, Edmonton
Partnered Event

Wednesday, October 15 Doors, 7:00 pm, Stories, 7:30pm 9910, downstairs at The Common Ten tellers. Five minutes. One winner. Let the game of truth begin! Sign-up at 7pm, slam at 7:30pm. Free to attend; arrive early! Space is limited. More info HERE!   This event is presented in partnership with Edmonton Story Slam

Free

Online Feature: The Silence of Falling Snow with Kristjana Gunnars

Online
Feature

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE   Online event featuring Kristjana Gunnars in conversation with University of Alberta's 2025-26 Writer in Residence, Cody Caetano, to discuss her memoir, The Silence of Falling Snow.   From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking.  'This is a story. It […]

Showcase: Laberinto Press

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Showcase

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE Join us for a journey through the anthologies from Edmonton-based Laberinto Press. In a largely primarily anglophone and Anglo-centric publishing industry, Laberinto Press has won the recognition of its peers for delivering outstanding works from writers whose first language is not English, and World Literature in translation. […]

Feature: Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes, with Laura Hall

Rice Theatre Lobby 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton
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Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE In Conversation event featuring Laura Hall speaking with University of Alberta associate professor Jordan Abel about her book Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror. Turning a lens on the dark legacy of colonialism in horror film, from Scream to Halloween and beyond Horror films, more than any other genre, […]

Feature: Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, with Marcello Di Cintio

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Feature

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE Award-winning author Marcello Di Cintio in conversation with LitFest board treasurer Danielle Paradis to talk about his latest book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers. Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award A series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global […]

Panel: On Language and Meaning (a.k.a. The Smartypants Panel)

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Panel

What is conscious and unconscious in how we utilize language? How do we use language to create meaning? For anyone who has a love for the construction and utilization of language, this panel is a must-attend at this year's festival! Lovingly referred to as The Smartypants Panel, this event brings together language scientists and poets […]

Feature: Curling Rocks! with John Cullen

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Feature

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE In conversation event with curling legend John Cullen to discuss his latest book, Curling Rocks!: Chronicles of the Roaring Game. Drawing on author John Cullen’s years of experience as both a stand-up comic and an elite curler, Curling Rocks! offers a lighthearted, expertly detailed look at a unique sport […]

Feature: A Necessary Distance, with Julie Salverson

Zeidler Hall 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB
Feature

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE In conversation event with Julie Salverson to talk about her book, A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter. George Salverson had written over a thousand radio plays for the CBC before he became the first television drama editor for the corporation. He wrote scripts for such […]

Panel: Publishing Multilingual, Multicultural & Hyphenated Authors

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Panel

This panel discussion brings together the founders of The Polyglot, Laberinto Press, Hungry Zine and Living Hyphen to discuss the need for and the challenges of publishing multicultural, multilingual, and hyphenated authors in the ever-evolving landscape of Canadian publishing. This panel will be moderated by translator and Edmonton's 11th Poet Laureate, Medgine Mathurin. Featuring: Justine […]

Workshop: Crafting Superb Sentences, with Julie Sedivy

EPL Community Room 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton
Workshop

Facilitator: Julie Sedivy Tickets: $15, Available HERE Sentences are the foundation of all writing, and mastering the sentence is essential to developing a strong writing voice. In this workshop, I would bring in gorgeous, surprising, intriguing, devastating sentences from a variety of genres, including romance, sci-fi, fantasy, young adult and children’s books, in addition to […]

Workshop: Intergenerational Imaginations, with Justine Abigail Yu

EPL Community Room 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton
Workshop

*This is a free workshop for BIPOC authors 14 spaces available, REGISTER HERE Facilitator: Justine Abigail Yu As hyphenated individuals living in between cultures, we are, as activist Eboo Patel describes it, “standing at the crossroads of inheritance and discovery, trying to look both ways at once.” In this writing workshop, we write to honour […]

Feature: Graphic Memoir, with Teresa Wong and Sarah Leavitt

Zeidler Hall 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB
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Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE Join us for this very special reading and conversation with graphic memoirists Teresa Wong and Sarah Leavitt, featuring their latest graphic memoirs, All Our Ordinary Stories and Something, Not Nothing.   All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey WINNER of 2 Alberta Literary Awards (the Memoir […]

Showcase: Agatha Press Fall Launch

Muttart Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB
Feature

LitFest is thrilled to partner with Edmonton's Agatha Press to bring you the launch of their fall releases - Sincerely, Sincerely by Rayanne Haines and Carolyne Van Der Meer, AS LONG AS I'M ALIVE I HAVE INFINITE CHANCES by ryan fitzpatrick, and i give birth to my body by Leilei Chen. Featuring: Leilei Chen, ryan […]

Showcase: Daaira: The Healing Will Come, The Polyglot Launch

The Green Room 10545 108 St NW Unit 2-786, Edmonton
Showcase

This event is free to attend, but please pre-register as space is limited An evening of literature, art, and music hosted by The Polyglot and Daaira House LitFest, October 18, 2025, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, The Green Room For the past nine years, The Polyglot—an award-winning local multilingual magazine—has offered a vibrant platform for artists, writers, […]

Showcase: Books with Buzz(kill) Cabaret

Zeidler Hall 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB
Showcase

Join us and discover some of this year's most buzzed about books in this not-to-be-missed showcase! Featuring: Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Amber Dawn, Canisia Lubrin, and Alex Manley Host: Kate Gibson Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE Stock, by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre […]

Partnered Event: The Poetry of Public Art, presented in partnership with the EAC

Boa & Hare 10520 97 St NW #127, Edmonton
Partnered Event

Join Edmonton Arts Council on Sunday, October 19 at Boa & Hare, 127 – 10520 97 St NW, located in Pacific Mall for The Poetry of Public Art, presented with LitFest. Event begins at 10:30am. Join us for a celebration of public art and poetry, as we mark 30 years of the Edmonton Arts Council and the addition of the 300th public artwork to the City of Edmonton Public Art Collection with […]

Free

Brunch & Learn Panel: On Wholeness, Wellness and Healing

Rice Theatre Lobby 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton
Panel

This year's Brunch and Learn features a panel of books each focusing on ideas and themes related to wellness, well-being, recovery and healing. This event will be catered by Edmonton's own Chef Holly Holt (@shecooksyeg) Featuring: Chyana Marie Sage, Quill Christie-Peters and Kate J. Neville Moderator: Anna Marie Sewell Tickets: $30, Available HERE Soft As […]

Masterclass: My Weird Life with Amber Dawn: a workshop of weird approaches to personal narrative writing

Workshop

Tickets: $15, Available HERE 18 Spaces Available Invite experimentation and spontaneity into your writing practice with My Weird Life. This writing workshop is designed for memoir, narrative poetry and autofiction writers, though it can be adapted to any form of personally-rooted writing. Writers in all stages of their practice are welcome. The workshop structure includes generative […]

Panel: Memoir Hour – What an amazing story!

Zeidler Hall 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB
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This year's memoir hour panel features three stories of incredible journeys. Featuring: Vinh Nguyen, Dan Rubenstein, and Sarah Boon Moderator: Jessica Truong Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular) Purchase tickets HERE Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist by Sarah Boon In Meltdown, Sarah Boon tells us about field adventures in snow and ice, […]

Showcase: Edmonton Heritage Stories Anthology

Zeidler Hall 9828 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB
Showcase

Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular) Purchase tickets HERE "A city is not alive without its people. Where there are people, there are stories and art. Where there are stories and art, there are opportunities to learn from each other, and expand our knowledge and experiences." LitFest is thrilled to bring you a selection of […]

Feature: Ekphrastic Writing, with David Garneau and Wendy McGrath

Art Gallery of St. Albert 19 Perron St, St. Albert
Feature

This event is free to attend, but please pre-register as space is limited This event, which takes place at The Art Gallery of St. Albert, brings together two beautiful collections of ekphrastic writing: Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, and The Beauty of Vultures by Wendy McGrath. Featuring: David Garneau and Wendy […]

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