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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]