StoryFest

StoryFest

2023 Season

StoryFest is delighted to announce that Monday’s event with Eliza Reid is now sold out! Thank you to everyone who has purchased a ticket.

Greenwood is thrilled to announce our first author for this, our 22nd season! Join us in May as we welcome Eliza Reid, the Canadian-born First Lady of Iceland to StoryFest. 

Eliza is a journalist, editor, and cofounder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat. Join us as she shares more from her book  Secrets of the Sprakkar – Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World.

This event will take place at the Stephen F. Shaar Community Centre, 394 Main Rd. Hudson (J0P 1H0) at 7:30 pm on Monday May 8, 2023.

 

Tickets are available for purchase in paper format at Que de Bonnes Choses (484-D Main Rd ) – cash purchase only, please. 

We wish to thank Alena Kirby, Centre Décore Hudson, Janet Ellerbeck, Embers, La Plantation, Penny Petz, The Hudson Family Health Centre and The Town of Hudson for their partnership.

StoryFest

Previous Guests

Past StoryFest guests are remembered fondly for their generous spirit of sharing, engaging presentations and enthusiastic discussions with our audiences over the last 20 years. 

2022

2021

2020

2019

Anakana Schofield
Steven Price
Alix Ohlin
Frances Itani
Rawi Hage
Ann Hui
D’Arcy Jenish
Dave Williams

2018

Michael Redhill
Sylvain Rivard
Liona Boyd
Marjorie Simmins
Zoe Whittall
Ian Hamilton
Ken Dryden
Catherine McKenzie
David Adams Richards

2017

Mary Walsh
Lawrence Hill
Daniel Levitin
Beth Powning
Monia Mazigh
Laurie Gough
Douglas Gibson
Lee Maracle
Ian Howarth
Alexandre Trudeau

2016

Nisha Coleman
Saleema Nawaz
John Farrow
Eric Siblin
Heather O’Neill
James Orbinski
Terry Fallis
Marina Endicott
Takriluk Partridge
Don McKay
Monique Polak
Ian McGillis
Gail Anderson
Gwynne Dyer
Guy Vanderhaeghe

 

2015

Kim Thúy

Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen Winter
Lisa Moore
Tomson Highway
Lauren B. Davis
David Halton
Sean Michaels
Terry Mosher

2014

Margaret Atwood
Kate Pullinger
Michael Winter
Paul Thompson
Peter Behrens
Merilyn Simonds
Graeme Gibson
Stephanie Bolster
Monty Reid
Arleen Paré
Roméo Dallaire
Ian Keteku
Oana Avasilichioaei
Paris Elizabeth Sea

2012

Sally Armstrong
Wayson Choy
Lauren B. Davis
Elizabeth Hay
Ami McKay
Jeffrey Simpson

2011

Linden MacIntyre
Joel Yanofsky
Catherine Chandler
Margaret Trudeau
Gary Townsend
John Asfour
Merilyn Simonds Wayne Grady
Anthony De Sa
Wayne Johnston
Bill Haugland
Colleen Curran

2010

Trevor Ferguson (aka John Farrow)
Johanna Skibsrud
Louise Penny
M.G. Vassanji
Nino Ricci
Claire Holden Rothman
Jason Heroux
Robyn Sarah
Claudia Coutu Radmore

2019

Jane Urquhart
Jan Wong
Donna Morrissey
Maria Loggia
Jeff Heinrich

2008

Stevie Cameron
Joseph Boyden
William Toye
Shane Kelly
Mark Smith
Jon Paul Fiorentino
Susan McMaster
Susan Gillis
Mark Abley

2007

Tony Hushion
Claire Mowat
Noah Richler
Roy MacGregor
Mark Smith
Lorne Elliott
Gil Courtemanche
Karen Molson

2006

Karen Molson
Ken McGoogan
Barry Callaghan
Louisa Blair

2005

Dinu Bumbaru
Charlotte Gray
Jane Brierley
Mark Abley

2004

Victor Owen
Victoria Freeman
J.L. Granatstein
Marian Fowler

2003

Ed Lawrence
Christopher Moore
Sylvia Fraser

2002

Senator Philippe Gigantès,

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