Thank you
Wordfest acknowledges the support of our public funders
Thank you to our founding partner
Kudos to the following partners
Festival Bookseller
Festival Hotel
Libations Bar Sponsor
Venue Partner
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor
Festival Audio Bookseller
Travel Partners
Travel Partners
Website by
Ticketing Partner
Special Sauce Partners
Publishers in the Spotlight in 2025
Anchor Books ● Arsenal Pulp Press ● Atria Books ● Avid Reader Press ● Beacon Press ● Biblioasis ● Blackstone Publishing ● Book*hug Press ● Brick Books ● Broadview Press ● Coach House Books ● Collins ● Cormorant ● DCB Young Readers ● Doubleday Canada ● Drawn & Quarterly ● Dutton ● ECW Press ● Freehand Books ● Goose Lane Editions ● Granity Studios ● Hamish Hamilton ● Harbour Publishing ● HarperAvenue ● HarperCollins Canada ● Harper Perennial ● Henry Holt and Co. ● House of Anansi ● Knopf Canada ● McClelland & Stewart ● MCD ● MIRA ● Nightwood Editions ● Orca Books ● Penguin Random House Canada ● Raincoast Books ● Random House Canada ● Roaring Brook Press ● Scribner Books ● Signal Books ● Simon & Schuster Canada ● Square Fish ● Titan ● Tor Books ● TouchWood Editions ● Tundra Books ● University of Alberta Press ● Verso ● Vintage Canada ● Washington Square Press
Media & Print Partners
Wordfest Board
Janet Hutchinson, Chair
Jaclyn Adomeit, Board Member
Gillian Lawrence, Board Member
Robert Macaulay, Board Member
Monti Tanner, Board Member
Wordfest Team
Shelley Youngblut, CEO & Creative Ringleader
Everett Wilson, Senior Director, Operations & Development
Chelsea Rule, Director, Community Engagement & Special Sauce
Rita Sirignano, Programming Associate & Youth Program Director
Calum Maunier, Technical Director
Paula Turcotte, Youth Programming Associate
Blake Cochlan, Design Associate
Iaman Nawaz, Event Support
Corrine Lung, Box Office & Front of House Associate
Bahareh ZabihiAali, Video Production Associate
Alex Kingcott, Media & Social Engagement Director
Vaughn Kelly, Media & Social Engagement
Jessica Quiring, Media & Social Engagement
David Kotsibie, Lead Photographer
Erica Guan, Imaginairium Artist Illustrations