Exciting news! Other Worlds by André Alexis has been named to the 2025 Giller Prize longlist. Greenwood's StoryFest is delighted to welcome him just days before the shortlist is announced. We hope you can join us to discuss his new admirable collection of short stories. Tickets ($20 each) and festival passes ($100 for a $20 […]
Join us for a fun couple of afternoons learning and creating knitting projects, taught by experienced knitters. Feel free to bring an existing project or start something new. During the second session knitters will get together to talk about their projects. We will supply basic knitting supplies for those who are beginners but there will […]
Greenwood’s StoryFest is so pleased to have Tarah Schwartz, an expert communications/media trainer, seasoned journalist, and the MUHC Foundation’s VP of Communications and Marketing to interview the Globe & Mail’s Eric Andrew-Gee about his fascinating book exploring the friendship and falling out of Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. William Cone in the process of establishing […]
Greenwood's StoryFest For Kids 2025 event features Caroline Adderson and her brand new children's book called "A Pond, A Poet and Three Pests". A spirited storyteller, Adderson will read her story out loud, engaging the children and families, and will be doing some fun activities related to the story. TICKETS
Caroline Adderson will be leading a Writing Workshop for adults wishing to learn more about how to create believable characters in their stories. She will be sharing her insight into aspects of characters to highlight in terms of descriptions, development, and dialogue, and working with participants to create three-dimensional characters of their own. TICKETS
Born and raised in Alberta, Caroline Adderson spent the year after graduating high school travelling across Canada and doing various types of volunteer work for the Katimavik youth program before settling in Vancouver. She earned her Bachelor of Education with a Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and then worked for […]
Join us for a fun couple of afternoons learning and creating knitting projects, taught by experienced knitters. Feel free to bring an existing project or start something new. During the second session knitters will get together to talk about their projects. We will supply basic knitting supplies for those who are beginners but there will […]
Brian Stewart was for decades one of Canada’s most prominent television journalists, acclaimed for his foreign coverage for both CBC’s The National and The Journal. Born in Montreal, and originally a newspaper reporter, he went on to become foreign correspondent for CBC in London and for NBC in Frankfurt. He worked in 10 war zones, […]
Born in Glasgow, raised in Montreal and a lifelong Canadiens fan, Brendan Kelly was one of the founders of the alternative weekly Montreal Mirror. He worked at the Montreal Daily News in the late 1980s and has had a weekly music review on CBC Radio for more than 30 years. He has written for Montreal’s […]
Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by The Globe and Mail as “brilliant and utterly convincing,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of 12 novels and two collections of short fiction. He has won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year five times. His writing has also been shortlisted […]
