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 […]
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A new look and a new feel, with a lot of laughs
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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Black Voices Writers’ Circle
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! […]
PEI Writers’ Guild Celebrates Third Edition of Wild Threads Literary Festival
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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See You in 2021
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 […]
Workshops & Panels, Friday
Bright and early Friday morning started off with a bang with four workshops running concurrently: The Rhythms of Dialogue with Pauline Dakin, Writing for Social Change with George Elliott Clarke, Opening into Vividness: Beginning Your Story, with Anne Simpson, and Storytelling: The Art of Knowledge with Julie Pellissier-Lush. Check out our slide show below. Brown […]
Anne Simpson Releases New Book of Poetry
Looking forward to Anne Simpson’s new book of poetry? So are we! Anne’s new book, STRANGE ATTRACTOR will be available in stores on September 10th. Copies will be available at Wild Threads. A stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop and Is. All of us are many selves within our lifetimes–one that is thrust […]