The 2024 NorthWords Writers Festival will welcome Waubgeshig Rice, Stephen Kakfwi and Dr Marie Wilson among others from May 30 to June 2.
Richard Van Camp, Ivan Coyote, Carole Rose GoldenEagle, Brandon Wint and Helen Knott are also in the festival lineup, which was announced on Wednesday evening.
Other NWT authors appearing at the festival include Alison McCreesh, Tanya Snow, Lana de Bastiani, Kody Ferron and Amber Henry.
Rice is known for Moon of the Crusted Snow, an apocalyptic thriller set in a rural Anishinaabe community. He more recently published sequel Moon of the Turning Leaves.
He will appear at the festival’s Friday, May 31 showcase as well as dropping in on the Yellowknife public library’s book club, which is reading Moon of the Turning Leaves.
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Kakfwi, a former NWT premier, published his memoir Stoneface: A Defiant Dene last year. He and Wilson, a former CBC North journalist who served as one of three commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, will host an evening discussion in Hay River on Thursday, May 30.
Wint will host a free poetry workshop in Yellowknife on Friday, May 31, while Van Camp will host a workshop on the healing power of fiction a day later.
Other events include panels on Indigenous feminisms in literature, understanding the world through comics and graphic novels, adapting oral storytelling to literature, and unlocking the power of children’s literature.
Regular features like Blush, the festival’s evening of erotica, also return. Read the full schedule and lineup on the NorthWords website.
The festival will conclude with the launch of Wilson’s book North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, which takes place at Yellowknife Books on the afternoon of Sunday, June 2.
