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CJSW 90.9FM and WordFest launch The GG Podcast
(November 10, 2011- Calgary, AB) To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, WordFest and CJSW 90.9FM have partnered to create The GG Podcast. This series of interviews explores the impact that winning a Governor General’s Literary Award has on a writer’s career and the significance this recognition has on Canada’s cultural landscape.
The GG Podcast will launch on November 14, 2011, a day before the recipients of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary awards are announced. The GGs, Canada’s national book awards, honour the best of our literature in seven categories, in both official languages. These Canada Council awards celebrate and promote the excellence of Canadian writers, illustrators and translators.
For The GG Podcast, WordFest selected five writers that have received the award in various categories: Peter Behrens, Dany Laferrière, Arthur Slade, Miriam Toews and Guy Vanderhaeghe. Each writer sat down with CJSW for an exclusive interview during their visit to WordFest, an annual literary festival that runs each October in Calgary and Banff.
November 10, 2011 No Comments
2011 Media Book
Below is a Selection of Festival Media Highlights from 2011
Print and Online
11-04-06: “Judge weaves riveting tale”, Calgary Herald
11-04-24: “Power of Words”, Calgary Herald
11-04-29: Hay and Toews event listing, SWERVE
11-05-02: “Toews inspired by involvement in film”, Calgary Herald
11-05-08: “Love, murder, and mystery in a small town”,Calgary Herald
11-06-05: “Alt.poet”, Calgary Herald
11-06-15: “Timeraiser”, Calgary Herald
11-08-21: “Canadian saga flows on grand scale”, Calgary Herald
11-08-25: “New digs, eclectic writers”, Calgary Herald
11-08-25: “Calgary WordFest announces line-up”, Quill & Quire
11-08-29: WordFest event listing, SWERVE
11-09-07: “Festival des mots à Calgary”, Le Franco
11-09-07: “Four Questions with Andrew Nikiforuk”, SWERVE
11-09-07: “Notable Nominees at WordFest”, Calgary Herald
11-09-10: Festival listing, SWERVE
11-09-11: “Coady Keeps the Faith”, Calgary Herald
11-09-17: “WordFest in Calgary and Banff”, MinuteManPress.ca
11-09-25: “A Good Man salutes old west”, Calgary Herald
11-09-25: “Sonic warfare on beetle”, Calgary Herald
11-10: WordFest Listing, VisitCalgary.com
11-10: WordFest Listing, CalgaryCulture.ca
11-10: Jo Steffens: WordFest’s New Director, Avenue Magazine
11-10-02: “Humphrey’s unlikely romance with history”, Calgary Herald
11-10-05: “Giller: Literary culture vibrant”, Calgary Herald
11-10-06: “Art imitates life, imitates art for Lynn Coady”, FFWD
11-10-06: Chris Turner interview and Festival overview, FFWD
11-10-06: “Sister Act”, Calgary Herald
11-10-06: “Sitting down with Guy Vanderhaeghe, Will Ferguson, Wayne Johnston”, Calgary Herald
11-10-06: “Starting from scratch with a smile”, FFWD
11-10-06: “Unabashedly poetic and poetically brash”, FFWD
11-10-08: “Rooms of their Own”, SWERVE
11-10-09: “Language dances across the page in Various Positions”, Calgary Herald
11-10-09: “Author Wayne Johnston helps kickoff WordFest this week”, Calgary Herald
11-10-09: “What we have here is a failure to communicate”, Calgary Herald
11-10-08: “WordFest set to kick off this Tuesday”, Calgary Beacon
11-10-11: “Badami: Book explores ‘being at war inside your own home’”, Calgary Herald
11-10-11: “in tune”, Calgary Herald
11-10-11: “Lev Grossman and the subversion of fantasy”, Calgary Herald
11-10-11: “Things to do in Calgary”, SweetSpot.ca
11-10-11: “Author Skibsrud reflects on her craft”, Calgary Herald
11-10-11: “If the suit fits”, Calgary Herald
11-10-12: “Shortlist for Governor General”, Calgary Herald
11-10-12: WordFest Contest, Herald Insider
11-10-12: “Calgary poet makes first appearance at WordFest”, Calgary Journal
11-10-13: “Author Badami casts winter as the villain”, Calgary Herald
11-10-13: “Marx hopes you judge her book by its cover”, Calgary Herald
11-10-13: “Readers get to shape WordFest selections”, Calgary Herald
11-10-13: “Tune into Jessica Westhead’s Community”, Quill & Quire
11-10-13: “Vaudeville takes centre stage in Little Shadows”, Rocky Mountain Outlook
11-10-13: “Wolitzer’s latest came form her long love of Scrabble”, Calgary Herald
11-10-14: “And you know it don’t come easy”, Calgary Herald
11-10-14: “Wordfest’s Thursday Night Showstoppers “, FFWD Weekly Blog
11-10-16: “Literary glitterati converge on Calgary”, Calgary Herald
11-10-17: “Clarkson’s Canada has room for all”, Calgary Herald
11-10-20: “Author’s latest shares common CanLit path”, Calgary Herald
11-10-25: “Slideshow: Banff-Calgary WordFest highlights”, Quill & Quire
11-10-27: “There is room for all of us”, FFWD
11-11-07: Author Wade Davis’s tireless journey into the silence, Calgary Herald
11-11-07: “Scotiabank Giller Light Bash organizers expect biggest turnout yet”, Quill & Quire
11-11-09: “Slideshow: Giller Light celebrations across Canada” , Quill & Quire
11-11-08: “At the Library: Wade Davis”, swervecalgary.ca
TV
| CTV Calgary – Noon Hour11-10-12: 2011 Wordfest is underwayCityTV – Breakfast TV11-10-14: Franklin Family Fun Day11-11-01: Adrienne Clarkson | CBC – Édition Alberta11-10-12: Maryse Rouy 11-10-12: Bryan Perro 11-10-12: Dany Laferrière 11-10-12: Édith Bourget 11-10-12: Anne Bernard-Lenoir 11-10-12: Lucie BergeronBravo TV – Books into Film11-10-14: Guy Vanderhaeghe |
Radio
| CBC Radio – Daybreak AlbertaGuy Vanderhaeghe InterviewCBC Radio – Calgary Eyeopener11-10-11: Will Ferguson
CBC Radio – The Homestretch 11-10-12: Johanna Skibsrud 11-10-13: Wayne Johnston 11-10-14: Guy Vanderhaeghe
660 News 11-10-11: Will Ferguson 11-10-12: Johanna Skibsrud 11-10-12: Anita Rau Badami 11-10-13: Lev Grossman 11-10-13: Lisa See 11-10-13: Wayne Johnston 11-10-14: Guy Vanderhaeghe
AM1140 Radio (High River) 11-10-11: Will Ferguson 11-10-12: Johanna Skibsrud 11-10-12: Anita Rau Badami 11-10-13: Lev Grossman 11-10-13: Lisa See 11-10-13: Wayne Johnston 11-10-14: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Alberta at Noon, CBC Radio 11-10-11: Will Ferguson |
Radio Canada11-10-11: Bryan Perro 11-10-11: Édith Bourget11-10-12: Lucie Bergeron11-10-12: Maryse Rouy
11-10-12: Bryan Perro 11-10-12: Dany Laferrière 11-10-12: Édith Bourget 11-10-12: Anne Bernard-Lenoir 11-10-12: Lucie Bergeron
CJSW Radio 11-10-11: Will Ferguson 11-10-12: Peter Behrens 11-10-12: Johanna Skibsrud 11-10-13: Miriam Toews 11-10-13: Arthur Slade 11-10-14: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Arts Alive, CKUA 11-10-12: Johanna Skibsrud 11-10-12: Wayne Johnston 11-10-13: Lisa See
Calgary Today 11-10-11: Will Ferguson
Mountain FM 11-10-03: Jo Steffens |
November 9, 2011 No Comments
Four Giller Prize Finalists Appearing in WordFest Events
(Calgary, AB – October 4, 2011) This morning the Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its 2011 shortlist. Of the six finalists named, four are appearing in WordFest events, with three appearing at the Festival next week.
The Festival runs from October 11-16 and features three of the finalists; David Bezmozgis, Lynn Coady and Zsuzsi Gartner.
October 5, 2011 No Comments
WordFest presents Patrick deWitt
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7pm, Tickets are $10
Patrick deWitt, featuring Chad Oakes
WordFest presents Patrick deWitt reading from his book The Sisters Brothers, one of the most highly acclaimed and awarded books of 2011. This event will also feature an in-conversation segment with Chad Oakes, the producer for Hell on Wheels, the much buzzed about Alberta-produced Western series currently airing on AMC.
Author Patrick deWitt shares from his new book, The Sisters Brothers. In The Sisters Brothers, deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable tour de force that captures the humour, melancholy and grit of the Old West. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters—losers, cheaters and ne’er-do-wells—the novel centres on two brothers bound by blood, violence and love. The Sisters Brothers was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Film rights for the novel have been sold to actor John C. Reilly’s production company, with Reilly to play one of the brothers. Reilly recently starred in Terri, a film written by deWitt.
Hell on Wheels has several parallels to deWitt’s odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier. The series portrays a post-Civil War America as an open wound. Men and women desperate for a new life head West to find work on the most significant engineering achievement of 19th century America: the Transcontinental Railroad.
Patrick deWitt and Chad Oakes will discuss adaptation and the challenges faced when portraying the Old West. The event will be hosted by blogger and frequent CBC Radio guest Bryan Wright.
Tickets: Call the EPCOR CENTRE’s Box Office at 403.294.9494 or click here to buy tickets.
September 30, 2011 No Comments
WordFest congratulates the Governor General’s Literary Awards on its 75th Anniversary
The Canada Council for the Arts is celebrating 75 years of the Governor General’s Literary Awards – and 75 years of great books!
WordFest and the GGs are celebrating this momentous year through a special podcast project. Stay tuned for more details and to help WordFest celebrate the GGs during the Festival.
October 11: Governor General’s Literary Award Finalists Announced
November 15: Governor General’s Literary Award Winners Announced
In 2011, WordFest is presenting the following Governor General’s Award recipients; Peter Behrens, Dany Laferrière, Arthur Slade, Miriam Toews and Guy Vanderhaeghe. To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the GGs, WordFest will produce a podcast with each of the five Governor General’s Literary Award recipients participating in the Festival this year. Each podcast will be an interview with the author, recorded during their attendance at the Festival.
September 16, 2011 No Comments
