Imaginairium Schedule
Explore the 2025 Wordfest Fall Festival Shows
We know you’re ready to squeeze every bit of joy out of the 2025 Imaginairium: Canada’s Liveliest Literary Festival. Our insider tip? Treat these six days as a menu of bright ideas in dark times.
Savour your favourite returning authors. Sample breakout stars. Devour the intimate, inspired pairings. Relish the return of The Way We… storytelling showcases (there are two of them!), The Kris Demeanor & Deborah Willis Variety Show, Literary Death Match, and our Poetry Cabaret. Add your ambitions to the mix with our interactive How To’s and insider takes on the publishing and TV biz.
Starring Shelagh Rogers & David A. Robertson. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Hosted by Paula Turcotte
Starring Cassie Campbell-Pascall & Clara Hughes
Hosted by Shelagh Rogers
Hosted by Mark Tewksbury
Starring Starring Neil Griffin, Richard Kelly Kemick, Jackie Morris, Rosemary Sullivan, Jillian Tamaki & Dan Werb. Hosted by Pam Rocker
Hosted by Rosemary Griebel
Hosted by David Gray
Hosted by Vinh Nguyen
Starring Karma Brown, Kim Fu, Dania Idriss & Daniel Zomparelli. Featuring Timothonius & Jane. Hosted by Paula Turcotte
Starring Karma Brown, Patricia Finn, Tayari Jones, Catherine Leroux, Canisia Lubrin, Liz Nugent, Carol Off & Ruth Ozeki. Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Hosted by Tarik Robinson.
Starring Kurt Andersen, Kim Fu, Richard Kelly Kemick, Liz Nugent, Carol Off, Joss Richard & Daniel Zomparelli. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
Co-hosted by Michael Christie & Tanya Talaga
Starring Karma Brown, Patricia Finn, Jenny Jackson & Liz Nugent
Hosted by Kurt Andersen.
Starring Carol Off & Ece Temelkuran. Hosted by Anne Collins
Starring Portia Elan & Catherine Leroux. Hosted by Amanda Leduc
Starring Arizona O’Neill, Rollie Pemberton, Larissa Pham & Kawai Strong Washburn
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Hosted by Shelley Youngblut
Hosted by Zain Velj
Starring Portia Elan, Tayari Jones, Canisia Lubrin, Harriet Alida Lye, Joss Richard & Tanya Talaga. Hosted by Pam Rocker
Starring Crystal Gail Fraser, Don Gillmor & Patrick Lennox. Hosted by Deborah Yedlin
Starring Anne Collins, Jenny Jackson & Jared Bland
Starring Harriet Alida Lye & Larissa Pham.
Starring Michel Jean, Catherine Leroux, Ece Temelkuran & David Treuer. Hosted by Zain Velji
The Dead Dads Club. Starring Arizona O’Neill & David A. Robertson. Hosted by Jaclyn Adomeit
Starring Gwen Aube, Casey Plett, Vivek Shraya, Kat Simmers & Kai Cheng Thom. Hosted by Pam Rocker
Starring Kurt Andersen, Anand Giridharadas, Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Hosted by Rollie Pembertson
Starring Author, Author, Author & Author