2024 FESTIVAL

The 6th Annual Afterwords Literary Festival was held at venues across Halifax from November 2-10, 2024. See the full schedule below.

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Poet Laureate Pop Up

Poems and casual conversation presented with the help of Halifax Regional Municipality.

Monday November 4 to Thursday November 7, daily

3:30pm to 4pm

AfterWords Little Free Library, corner of Spring Garden Road and Carleton, behind the Glitter Bean Cafe

Walking Trees in Halifax

A parade to celebrate Walking Trees by Marie-Louise Gay

Saturday, November 2

11:30AM

Halifax Central Library, back plaza, 5440 Spring Garden Road

Matinee at the Bus Stop

With Joshua Whitehead and Erin Wunker

Saturday November 9

4:00PM – 5:00PM (Doors Open at 3:30PM)

Bus Stop Theatre

Asking for Enlightenment

With Elizabeth Renzetti

Saturday, November 9

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Creating Believable Characters

With Caroline Adderson

Saturday, November 9

12:00PM – 2:00PM

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Fiction Masterclass

With M G Vassanji

Saturday, November 9

9:30AM – 11:30AM

Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Road, Halifax)

The Fine Line: Finding a Poem’s Small Beginning

With Fawn Parker

Saturday, November 9

9:30AM – 11:30AM

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Creating Comics!

With Geneviève Bigué

Sunday, November 3

2:00PM – 3:30PM

MacPhee Centre (50 Queen Street, Dartmouth)

The Omniscient Mind

With Johanna Skibsrud

Sunday, November 3

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Online via Zoom

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

With Christina Cooke

Sunday, November 10

12:00PM – 2:00PM

Online via Zoom

Five Basic Steps to Turn an Idea into a Story

With B.R. Myers

Saturday, November 2

3:30PM – 5:30PM

BMO Room, Halifax Central Library (5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax)

Making the Invisible Visible

With Joshua Whitehead, Sue Murtagh, Shashi Bhat, Erin Wunker, Lisa Moore, and Stephanie Domet

Sunday, November 10

7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Sunday Afternoon at Millbrook

With Tanya Talaga and Kiahna Brennan

Sunday, November 10

1:00PM – 2:00PM (Doors Open at 12:30PM)

Millbrook Cultural Centre (65 Treaty Trail, Millbrook)

Sunday Afternoon at The Carleton

With Elizabeth Renzetti and Portia Clark

Sunday, November 10

3:00PM – 4:30PM (Doors Open at 2:30PM)

The Carleton (1685 Argyle St, Halifax)

Book Appétit Brunch

With Shashi Bhat and Heather O’Neill

Sunday, November 10

11:00AM – 1:00PM (Doors Open at 10:30AM)

The Carleton (1685 Argyle St, Halifax)

Fantastic Ideas

With Elizabeth Renzetti, Charlene Carr, Anne Fleming, Catherine Leroux, and Heather O’Neill

Saturday, November 9

7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Saturday Afternoon at The Carleton

With Carol Bruneau, Anne Fleming, Peter Counter, and Tanya Talaga

Saturday, November 9

1:00PM – 2:30PM (Doors Open at 12:30PM)

The Carleton (1685 Argyle St, Halifax)

Getting to the Truth

With Tanya Talaga, Mercedes Peters, M G Vassanji, and Mary Lynk

Friday, November 8

7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Open Secrets

With Heather O’Neill, Caroline Adderson, Deepa Rajagopalan, Sarah Hampson, and Sue Goyette

Friday, November 8

12:30PM – 2:30PM (Doors Open at 12:00PM)

The Carleton (1685 Argyle St, Halifax)

Long Story Short

With Elliott Gish, Fawn Parker, Deepa Rajagopalan, Alexander MacLeod, and Caroline Adderson

Thursday, November 7

7:00PM – 10:00 PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

Now We Are Six

With Sarah Mian, Alex Pugsley, Lisa Alward, Amanda Peters, Deepa Rajagopalan, Cory Lavender, and Andrea Currie

Wednesday, November 6

7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Cafe Lara (2347 Agricola St, Halifax)

Tuesday Night in Cherry Brook

With Atharv Mahajan, Andrea Currie, and Charlene Carr

Tuesday, November 5

7:00PM – 8:30PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)

Black Cultural Centre (10 Cherry Brook Rd, Cherry Brook)

Film Screening: A Mother Apart

Monday, November 4

6:30PM (Doors Open at 6:00PM)

Carbon Arc Cinema at the Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer Street, Halifax)

Seriously Thrilled

With B.R. Myers, Sidura Ludwig, Geneviève Bigué

Sunday, November 3

4:00PM – 6:00PM

MacPhee Centre (50 Queen Street, Dartmouth)

These Songs I Know By Heart: Words and Music

With Erin Brubacher and Stewart Legere

Saturday, November 2

3:00PM – 4:15PM

Room 301, Halifax Central Library (5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax)

Kids’ Day/Journée jeunesse

With Jack Wong, Marie-Louise Gay, Penelope Jackson, Sarah Everett, Heidi Tattrie Rushton, Lindsay Ruck, Bria Chiome-Miller, Meghan Marentette, Rebecca Thomas, Alan Syliboy, Marie-France Comeau, and Johanna Lezziero

Saturday, November 2

12:30PM – 4:00PM

Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library (5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax)

Writing with Words and Pictures

With Marie-Louise Gay

Saturday, November 2

9:15AM – 11:15AM

Halifax Central Library – BMO Room