Category — Media Book

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