AfterWords Literary Festival
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Eighth Annual AfterWords Literary Festival
Sunday November 1 to Sunday November 8
Writers and readers meet at the eighth annual AfterWords Literary Festival, with a full week of events in downtown Halifax.
This year’s AfterWords festival brings together more than fifty writers in Halifax for readings, conversations, workshops, and more. With daily programming at The Carleton, from our festival-opening event featuring Patrick deWitt and Laurie Brown in conversation, along with daily daytime conversations featuring writers like Vivek Shraya and Kai Cheng Thom, Aquakultre and Thandiwe McCarthy, Feisal G. Mohamed, Jamaluddin Aram, and Adnan Hussain, and Stephens Gerard Malone, Alex Manley, and Cooper Lee Bombardier, to readings by Len Diepeveen, Erin Wunker, Robert J. Sawyer and Ruth Ozeki, to brunch with Amanda Peters and Donna Morrissey, readers and writers meet in downtown Halifax at the AfterWords festival. Find the full lineup and buy tickets on our website afterwords.ca
The AfterWords Literary Festival is sponsored by University of King’s College, Starboard Wealth Planners, Dalhousie University, The Halifax Independent School, Rosie Porter Realtor, and the Downtown Halifax Business Commission, along with funders J&W Murphy Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, Nova Scotia, Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax. None of this work would be possible without these amazing supporters.
