NorthWords NWT has added climate disaster author and journalist Jesse Winter to its 2026 roster after one of the initially announced writers dropped out.
Winter has spent years covering Canada’s wildfires. His reporting has appeared in the likes of The New York Times, The Guardian and The Globe and Mail.
He was also a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work as part of a Reuters team covering floods in British Columbia.
He replaces Aviaq Johnston in the lineup for the NorthWords NWT 2026 literary festival at the end of May. Johnston is instead travelling to a writer-in-residence program in New Zealand, organizers said.
This month, Winter published a book – Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze – that studies the NWT’s 2023 fires alongside others across Canada.
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“His festival appearances will offer an opportunity for meaningful conversation about climate, resilience, displacement, and storytelling in times of crisis,” NorthWords NWT said in a press release.
The scheduled for this year’s festival, from May 28-31, can be found on the NorthWords website.
