LitFest Short History 

LitFest is Canada’s only Creative Non-fiction Festival. It brings together some of the world’s best selling, award winning and emerging authors, writers, filmmakers and artists with audiences at readings, panel discussions and presentations.  

Edmonton is a creative incubator for award winning, best selling and emerging authors and writers. LitFest promotes and celebrates this local talent through a variety of panels and discussions.

Creative non-fiction allows a writer to employ the diligence of a reporter, the shifting voices and viewpoints of a novelist, the refined work play of a poet and the analytical modes of the essayist and a journalist.

LitFest showcases the ability of this genre to inspire and provoke debates on the themes that define our present and may shape our future.

LitFest: Edmonton International Literary Festival was created in 2002 as the successor of the Alberta Book Fair, an annual trade fair for almost 20 years.

LitFest Board

LitFest board members are committed to promoting local emerging authors and to bringing established and new writers from Canada and around the world to Edmonton. They are active in the literary community and work enthusiastically to bring the best creative non-fiction writers to Edmonton.

President
Curtis Gillespie

Past President
Sharon Budnarchuk

Secretary
Alice Major

Treasurer
Todd Anderson

Directors
Tara Blasco Raj
Linda Cook
Kathy Fisher
Donna Fong
Carol Holmes
Sophie Lees

LitFest Programming Committee
Curtis Gillespie - Chair
Marie Carriere
Dave Cournoyer
Caterina Edwards
Myrna Kostash
Gordon Morash
Janice Williamson

Producer/Artistic Director
David Cheoros