For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 16, 2013 (Toronto):
See
Joseph Boyden, Meg Tilly, Chrystia Freeland, Austin Clarke, and more on
the Bestsellers Stage at this Sunday’s The Word On The Street Toronto!
The
Bestsellers Stage at The Word On The Street Toronto is packed with the
personalities and programming that audiences won’t want to miss.
Festival goers are invited to see Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning
novelist
Joseph Boyden, on stage to present his long-awaited, Scotiabank Giller Prize-longlisted novel The
Orenda, tour the best street food and learn how to replicate the experience at home with culinary TV stars James Cunningham and Pay Chen; hear from international-journalist-turned-politician Chrystia Freeland and celebrity-actor-turned-celebrity-author Meg Tilly, and find out how Bruce Poon Tip,
the award-winning CEO of G Adventures, finds success without sacrifice.
Take a trip through the legendary writing career of Austin Clarke, in conversation with his longtime editor and friend Patrick Crean, and listen in as a panel of genre fiction superstars—L. Marie Adeline, Joy Fielding, Susanna Kearsley, and J. Kent Messum—discuss what’s trending and where there is cross-pollination between genres today.
About The Word On The Street:
Each
year in September, in the cities of Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Kitchener,
Toronto, and Halifax, The Word On The Street unites the country in a
national celebration of literacy and the Canadian written word.
Annually attracting more than 200,000 visitors to its Queen’s Park Circle
location, The Word On The Street Toronto is the largest book and
magazine festival in Canada. This year’s event takes place on Sunday,
September 22nd.
Media Contact:
June Dickenson
647.477.6000
Festival Director:
Heather Kanabe
416.504.7241
