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Hal Niedzviecki (CAN) inaugurated the WordFest blog and is currently featured on Oprah’s 2009 summer Reading List for his latest work, The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours. He is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and the author of Hello I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. Called the "guru of independent/alternative creative action" by The Toronto Star, Niedzviecki has published numerous works of social commentary and fiction and his writing has appeared in periodicals and newspapers across North America.

Hal Niedzviecki is a WordFest Alumnus: 2007.

Events:
9 - For a Nickel I Will...
29 - Word of Mouth
58 - Dine and Spill
61 - From Pop to Peep
 

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