The Toronto International Festival of Authors splits with Harbourfront to become an independent entity
"The challenge of keeping people's attention for eleven days is a lot harder."
Board of the Kingston WritersFest pulls the plug on the sixteen-year-old annual event
Ticket sales accounted for 14% of the festival's revenue in 2024.
Word on the Street announces increase in revenue and donor support in 2023 annual report
This year's festival will run September 28–29.
WOTS mixes things up with newly installed leadership trio
The dates for the 2024 edition of WOTS are September 28–29.
As the Festival of Literary Diversity turns eight, founder Jael Richardson looks back at past successes and forward to possible futures
"Finding ways to improve the experience is my favourite thing about the festival," says Richardson.
Cherie Dimaline, Zoe Whittall, and Catherine Hernandez confirmed to appear at WOTS, with three new genre stages for this year’s festival
This year's festival runs at Queen's Park on May 27 and 28.
Sienna Tristen on their new role as programming manager at Word on the Street: “We’re here to feed the soul through art and literature and good conversation”
Tristen takes over the role from Maya Baumann, who had been programming manager at WOTS for six years before stepping down in November.
Donna Bailey Nurse joins forces with Luminato to celebrate Black women’s writing and the legacy of Toni Morrison
A two-day program on June 17 and 18 celebrates the work of the late American Nobel Prize winner as well as highlighting the importance of Black women's writing.
In-person literary events return to Toronto’s Harbourfront with TIFA’s genre-focused Motive Crime & Mystery Festival
Inspired by U.K. festivals such as Bloody Scotland and Noirwich, the Toronto festival features forty in-person events and a series of digital events.
After a year of upheaval, the Toronto International Festival of Authors has changes aplenty in store
While 2021 will once again run as a digital festival, 2022 includes changes such as a new festival date and a mini-fest devoted to crime writing.