Five Rivers at Word on the Street (Western edition)

Senior Editor, Robert Runté, and former staffer (now gone on to full time writer) Barb Gieger, at the Five Rivers table at Word on the Street Festival, Lethbridge. Five Rivers participated in Lethbridge’s Word on the Street festival this weekend and co-hosted a Bluepencil Café with Editors Canada. Small by comparison to Toronto’s, but still just as enjoyable — great guests, 100 vendors, food trucks, and most importantly, a significant proportion of the population coming…

When Words Collide Festival Report

From the Desk of Senior Editor, Robert Runté When Words Collide (Calgary) convention was once again wildly successful, with great programming, wonderful Guest of Honour speeches, and 650 wonderful-to-meet-and-talk-with attendees. Small enough convention to feel ‘intimate’, but large and diverse enough that one constantly learns new things. The cross-genre format of WWC leads to a lot of cross-pollination. (For example, the launch of Sleuth at WWC this year, a new mystery magazine from the people…

More Photos from When Words Collide 2014

Five Rivers book launch at When Words Collide, Calgary, Aug 2014. Five of the six authors from the Spring / Summer lineup were available at the conference to do ‘teaser’ readings and sign their latest releases. From L-R: Susan Bohnet, Aaron Kite, Mike Plested, Ann Marston and Susan MacGregor. Part of the attentive audience at the launch readings.

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By Lorina StephensAaron Kite, Ann Marston, book launch, Five Rivers Events, Michell Plested, Susan Bohnet, Susan MacGregor, When Words CollideComments Off