The festival features emerging and established London writers and some of Canada’s most celebrated authors reading and talking about their work, among them novelist Emma Donoghue , poets Penn Kemp and Madeline Bassnett, playwright Robert Chafe, television journalist Steve Paikin and composer John Beckwith, frequent collaborator with the late London playwright, poet and author James Reaney, delivering the annual James Reaney Memorial Lecture.
The festival is a partnership between Museum London, the London Public Library, Brick and Insomniac Presses, Poetry London, Fanshawe College and Western University with funding support from Scotia Wealth Management, John Paton, Lerners, and the London and Ontario Arts Councils.
For full details, times, events and tickets visit wordsfest.ca.