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Canada Council for the Arts Funding for Alberta Artists (LitFest)
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Meet Francine Cunningham, Artist Liaison Consultant for the Canada Council for the Arts’ Alberta Focus Initiative, and learn about grants, awards and opportunities available to Alberta-based artists.
Agatha Press Launch (LitFest)
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LitFest is thrilled to partner with Edmonton’s Agatha Press to bring you a conversation on identity from their latest season of chapbook authors: Dawn Carter, Breanna Mroczek, and Beth Murray.
The Eyes of Gaza, feat. Plestia Alaqad, hosted by Julie Rak
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HM Tory Chair and Professor, Julie Rak hosts LitFest’s featured author talk with Plestia Alaqad, where they will discuss Alaqad’s New York Times bestselling memoir, The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.
Roading and Eh, Writing – feat. Will Ferguson, hosted by Natasha Deen
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Natasha Deen will host a discussion with Will Ferguson about his new travel book, Meanwhile Back in Nokomis: Tales from Canada and Elsewhere.
Triangularity: Alice Major in conversation with Richard Harrison
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Alice Major in conversation with Richard Harrison is a must-see LitFest event where both authors will discuss their respective books, Triangularity and My Mother Joins the Resistance.
Accidental Memoirs: Creating Longform from Shortform
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Join Rona Altrows (author of Anxious Kid Makes Pretty Good), Richard Kelly Kemick (author of Decadence), and Louise Bernice Halfe (author of wîhtamawik/Tell Them) as they discuss the process of curating a collective work of memoir from individual pieces.
Our Rights and Freedoms: A Biography of Canada’s Charter, Aaron W. Hughes in conversation with Paula Simons
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Join Senator Paula Simons for a thought-provoking and spirited discussion with author Aaron W. Hughes at a critical time in our country.
The World We Long For – feat. Vivek Shraya and Kai Cheng Thom
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Join two of Canada’s most beloved trans authors Vivek Shraya & Kai Cheng Thom as they celebrate the release of two works of fiction exploring dystopian and utopian worlds that are frightening, fantastical – and not so far away from the world we live in today: Shraya’s The Hystericals, and Thom’s The Shapeshifter’s Guide To Gym Class.
Deconstructing Us: The Secrets of our DNA
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Join host Premee Mohamed as she talks with featured author Turi King about her book, The Secrets of our DNA.
On Treason, feat. Patrick Lennox and Karen Unland
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Taproot journalist Karen Unland will speak to featured author Patrick Lennox about On Treason, the extraordinary tale of how Alberta has come to have a referendum vote on the province’s future within Canada.