Looking forward to the Word On The Street
Every year The Word On The Street provides a diverse and interesting group of writers and artists from throughout Canada, and this year is one of our best lineups yet! Whether you prefer mysteries, graphic novels, or cookbooks, you will be sure to find a session to suit your tastes. Here are just some of this year’s guests.
Trevor Lui is an accomplished chef and entrepreneur. Over the past two decades he has been involved in some of Toronto’s foremost food brands. He is the cofounder of Quell, an agency that highlights the talents of notable BIPOC leaders in hospitality, and has been a guest on the television show “CityLine” numerous times. Lui’s first cookbook, “The Double Happiness Cookbook,” falls into the genre of autobiographical cookbook. He details his journey from the corporate world to chef in eight stories, while sharing 88 recipes. From Taiwanese Fried Chicken to Kung-Pao Style Cauliflower Wings, you’re sure to find something to enjoy.
Anyone interested in mystery novels will need to check out our panel discussion: “Solving for Suspense,” featuring Anna Marie Sewell and Robyn Harding. Sewell is an award-winning multi-genre writer and performer. She was Edmonton’s fourth Poet Laureate and founder of Big Sky Theatre. Her novel, “Humane,” is an Indigenous crime novel that plays with magic realism and genre. It follows private investigator Hazel Lesage as she searches for the murderer of a young girl. Robyn Harding is the author of 10 novels, including the international bestseller, “The Party,” and “Globe and Mail” bestseller, “The Swap.” Her latest novel is “The Perfect Family,” a thriller in which the Adler family are the victims of a series of increasingly violent and seemingly random attacks.
We will be hosting several comic artists during this year’s festival. Guy Delisle. Delisle is a Canadian cartoonist and animator best known for his “offbeat travelogues,” including “Burma Chronicles,” “Pyongyang,” and “Jerusalem.” His latest graphic novel, “Factory Summer,” veers in a completely different direction from his past work, and is a memoir of the: “time he spent working the night shift in a Quebec City paper mill as a student almost 40 years ago.”
Local comic artist, Eric Dyck, will be hosting a question and answer session with graphic novelist Aminder Dhaliwal. She is the creator of the serialized web comic, “Woman World,” which tells the story of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct. “Woman World” was collected as a graphic novel where it was a Dough Wright Spotlight Award nominee, while the Instagram version was a 2018 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic nominee. Her latest graphic novel is “Cyclopedia Exotica.”
Join Lethbridge Public Library online as we host these amazing novelists, and others, for
The Word On The Street 2021, September 17 & 18, with activities happening September 14 – 24. Registration opens soon, and you can register for individual sessions by visiting thewordonthestreet.ca/Lethbridge