Our last day, Sunday September 18th was a celebration of poetry, music and the power of community at the Festival. Sponsored by Mawenzi House and Nimbus Publishing, our event Brunchy Sunday Readings featured award-winning Mi’kmaw poet, Rebecca Thomas and RBC’s PEN Canada New Voices Award Winner in 2022, Fareh Malik. Accompanied by the captivating Atlantic […]
This year at Wild Threads, we added a new feature to the festival — comedy! It was with a lot of laughs and a few bloopers that we hosted the CBC Debaters’ host, Steve Patterson, who shared a few stories with us in the afternoon at the Trailside Music Hall with local comedian Patrick Ledwell! […]
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This event celebrated the talent of Black writers on Prince Edward Island Island. Through R&B, hip-hop, poetry and storytelling, this experience was a rich and cultural for all in attendance, hosted by Tamara Steele, and with a special performance from the Umbrella Collective. The famous green couch from the BCS office even made an appearance! […]
Gremlins in the Fusebox: Chris Bailey on the Art of Finding Poetry Everywhere Poet and fisherman helped authors explore the process and production of poetry using your own life experience as a guide. Whether your material is the city or the sea, this workshop focussed on using poetry —in flexible terms—to find common ground. Creating […]
Thanks to the Bookmark and Simon & Schuster, Wild Threads was able to welcome Peter Mansbridge to the Florence Simmonds Performance Hall. We were especially pleased to have Louise Martin join, our very own anchor from “Compass”. Here are a few highlights from the event: […]
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“We couldn’t have produced this festival without our amazing Wild Threads 2022 sponsors! Thank you from the bottom of our literary hearts!” —The Wild Threads team […]
For Immediate Release SUMMARY – The PEI Writers’ Guild brings Canadian icons Peter Mansbridge and Steve Patterson of CBC’s The Debaters to Charlottetown, offers workshops and events to local writers from September 15-18th. (CHARLOTTETOWN, PE) August 19th, 2022—The PEI Writers’ Guild is proud to announce that Wild Threads Literary Festival is in its third […]
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The PEI Writers’ Guild is proud to present the Wild Threads Literary Festival for 2021 Registration packages will be announced shortly! *This schedule is subject to change. Thursday, August 26th, 2021 12:30 pm Registration at Haviland Club 1-2:30 pm Christine Gordon ManleyEditing: Inclusive Language and Best Practices 1-2:30 pm Sadie McCarney Finders Keepers: A Found […]
Dear Friends, It is with heavy hearts that we at the PEI Writers’ Guild must announce that Wild Threads will not be presenting a literary festival on Prince Edward Island in 2020. Working with the new public health measures of no mass gatherings, we knew that we would not be able to hold our festival […]
It was hard to describe the feeling as all thirty-one participants gathered at a family cottage in Stratford, for our final official event to listen to each other’s work. Sharon McKay, the keynote speaker for the event, left us with parting words, and we delved into poems, the short stories and the memoir, which drew […]