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

$0.00

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

$0.00

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

$8.00

Asking for Enlightenment

With Elizabeth Renzetti

Saturday, November 9

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

$25.00

Creating Believable Characters

With Caroline Adderson

Saturday, November 9

12:00PM – 2:00PM

Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

$25.00

Fiction Masterclass

With M G Vassanji

Saturday, November 9

9:30AM – 11:30AM

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

$25.00

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)

$25.00

Creating Comics!

With Geneviève Bigué

Sunday, November 3

2:00PM – 3:30PM

MacPhee Centre (50 Queen Street, Dartmouth)

$0.00

The Omniscient Mind

With Johanna Skibsrud

Sunday, November 3

2:30PM – 4:30PM

Online via Zoom

$25.00

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

With Christina Cooke

Sunday, November 10

12:00PM – 2:00PM

Online via Zoom

$25.00

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)

$0.00

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)

$15.00

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)

$0.00

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)

$0.00

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)

$40.00

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)

$15.00

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)

$8.00

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)

$15.00

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)

$8.00

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)

$10.00

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)

$10.00

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)

$0.00

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)

$10.00

Seriously Thrilled

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

Sunday, November 3

4:00PM – 6:00PM

MacPhee Centre (50 Queen Street, Dartmouth)

$0.00

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)

$0.00

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)

$0.00

Writing with Words and Pictures

With Marie-Louise Gay

Saturday, November 2

9:15AM – 11:15AM

Halifax Central Library – BMO Room

$25.00