Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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. […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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, […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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 […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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 […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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 […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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 […]
Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular), Available HERE (Use promo code "LITFEST2025" to access student rate) 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 […]
