Wordfest presents Calgary's Canada Reads Celebration

Our yearly celebration of CBC’s Canada Reads is one of our liveliest showcases and this year, it’s too hot to handle. We couldn’t resist the allure of putting the hockey book—Searching for Terry Punchout penned by Calgary’s Tyler Hellard—in “forced proximity” to the romance read—the debut It’s Different This Time by Emmy Award-winning producer Joss Richard. Will they or won’t they… be the author of the last book standing when CBC’s great Canadian book debate heats up April 13-16? Only their celebrity champions—YouTube personality and podcaster Steve “Dangle” Glynn and BookTok star Morgann Book—know for sure.

We’ll have all four on the Memorial Park stage sharing insider insights about what makes these novels heavyweight contenders. Shelley Youngblut will host, teasing out secrets and strategies from the author-champion text threads. And if your secret crush asks when your English got so good, you can answer, “I come to Wordfest shows!”

This event includes an audience Q & A and book signing fuelled by Owl’s Nest Books.