Sudbury’s annual literary festival, Wordstock, is back for another season. If you’re a book lover, it could be just the festival for you
Canada's literary scene is as exciting, diverse and challenging as a cosmopolitan city. Sudbury's annual English literary festival captures some of that big city buzz. For this year’s festival, Wordstock Sudbury presents fresh voices of Indigenous, Black and LGBTQI+ writers, along with average Canadians of every colour, creed and credit line.
The first Wordstock Sudbury in 2013 had a modest budget of about $5,000. The 2022 festival budget is $100,000. Five of Sudbury's poet laureates, past and present, will present a poetry primer Nov. 3 at 5:30 p.m. This event will be followed by the festival opening and introduction of this year's Youthwords Writing Contest winners.
The 2021 recipient of the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award, Robertson is the author of numerous books for young readers. His memoir, Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory, was a Quill & Quire book of the year in 2020. Another of his books, On The Trapline", illustrated by Julie Flett, won a Governor General's Literary Award and was named one of the best picture books of 2021.