Eden Mills Writers' Festival
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Celebrating diverse voices & the transformative power of story.
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival brings readers and writers together in community and conversation. linktr.ee/emwf
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival brings readers and writers together in community and conversation. linktr.ee/emwf
We have a winner! ✨ A massive thank you to everyone who completed our festival survey. We're delighted to announce that Joyce has won the raffle prize!
Hearing from our community is the best gift we could ask for. Congratulations, Joyce, and thanks to all of you for helping shape the future of EMWF
Hearing from our community is the best gift we could ask for. Congratulations, Joyce, and thanks to all of you for helping shape the future of EMWF
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We have a winner! ✨ A massive thank you to everyone who completed our festival survey. We're delighted to announce that Joyce has won the raffle prize!
Hearing from our community is the best gift we could ask for. Congratulations, Joyce, and thanks to all of you for helping shape the future of EMWF
Hearing from our community is the best gift we could ask for. Congratulations, Joyce, and thanks to all of you for helping shape the future of EMWF
The most wonderful time of the year calls for the most powerful gift of all: the gift of story. ❤️ We are thrilled to launch our Holiday Giving Campaign, running from November 26 to December 31st! For the net 35 days, your donation will be MATCHED!
Give the gift of story today! Find link in our bio
Give the gift of story today! Find link in our bio
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The most wonderful time of the year calls for the most powerful gift of all: the gift of story. ❤️ We are thrilled to launch our Holiday Giving Campaign, running from November 26 to December 31st! For the net 35 days, your donation will be MATCHED!
Give the gift of story today! Find link in our bio
Give the gift of story today! Find link in our bio
🎉A huge congratulations to Eden Mills Writers' Festival alum Souvankham Thammavongsa for her Giller Prize win last night! It was such an honour to have Souvankham introduce Pick a Colour at this years' festival. We are so grateful you chose to share the book and your insights at EMWF 2025! 📚 💚
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🎉A huge congratulations to Eden Mills Writers' Festival alum Souvankham Thammavongsa for her Giller Prize win last night! It was such an honour to have Souvankham introduce Pick a Colour at this years' festival. We are so grateful you chose to share the book and your insights at EMWF 2025! 📚 💚
Street Festival Sunday starts earlier this year — 10:00 AM (not noon)!
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
September 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Street Festival Sunday starts earlier this year — 10:00 AM (not noon)!
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
A debut poet and a seasoned storyteller sit down to explore joy, grief, queerness, and community through their bold, tender new works. Join Matthew J. Trafford and Chiedza Pasipanodya for a conversation on stories that refuse easy answers. Sept 7th at the Street Festival Sunday at emwf.ca
September 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A debut poet and a seasoned storyteller sit down to explore joy, grief, queerness, and community through their bold, tender new works. Join Matthew J. Trafford and Chiedza Pasipanodya for a conversation on stories that refuse easy answers. Sept 7th at the Street Festival Sunday at emwf.ca
SOLD OUT! 🌿
Stories Beyond the Machine: A Community Circle has reached capacity — thank you for filling the circle with such care.
Still looking to write with us tonight? A few spots remain for Eden Mills After Dark: Writing Romantasy with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Shalini Abeysekara
🎟️ 🔗
Stories Beyond the Machine: A Community Circle has reached capacity — thank you for filling the circle with such care.
Still looking to write with us tonight? A few spots remain for Eden Mills After Dark: Writing Romantasy with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Shalini Abeysekara
🎟️ 🔗
September 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
SOLD OUT! 🌿
Stories Beyond the Machine: A Community Circle has reached capacity — thank you for filling the circle with such care.
Still looking to write with us tonight? A few spots remain for Eden Mills After Dark: Writing Romantasy with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Shalini Abeysekara
🎟️ 🔗
Stories Beyond the Machine: A Community Circle has reached capacity — thank you for filling the circle with such care.
Still looking to write with us tonight? A few spots remain for Eden Mills After Dark: Writing Romantasy with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Shalini Abeysekara
🎟️ 🔗
The Courage to Care 💚 Guelph School of Environmental Sciences Set
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
September 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Courage to Care 💚 Guelph School of Environmental Sciences Set
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
Our street festival is right around the corner! Before you head to Eden Mills, here’s your festival packing list 👇
A folding lawn chair or blanket/ground cover
An umbrella (just in case)
Cash — cell service in the village can be spotty
A reusable water bottle
An inquisitive mind 🧠✨
#EMWF2025
A folding lawn chair or blanket/ground cover
An umbrella (just in case)
Cash — cell service in the village can be spotty
A reusable water bottle
An inquisitive mind 🧠✨
#EMWF2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our street festival is right around the corner! Before you head to Eden Mills, here’s your festival packing list 👇
A folding lawn chair or blanket/ground cover
An umbrella (just in case)
Cash — cell service in the village can be spotty
A reusable water bottle
An inquisitive mind 🧠✨
#EMWF2025
A folding lawn chair or blanket/ground cover
An umbrella (just in case)
Cash — cell service in the village can be spotty
A reusable water bottle
An inquisitive mind 🧠✨
#EMWF2025
Speculative fiction cracks the world open and lets us step into another. Join Daniel Sarah Karasik (Disobedience), Coltrane Seesequasis (The Threads of Time), and Terese Mason Pierre (As the Earth Dreams) this Sunday, Sept 7 · 1:00PM · Street Festival Sunday
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#EMWF2025 #SpecFic #SciFi
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#EMWF2025 #SpecFic #SciFi
September 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thank you to our sponsors 📚🌿
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival would not be possible without the deep-rooted support of our community and partners. From funding literary programming to keeping our events accessible and our village vibrant, your generosity allows us to dream big and gather widely.
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival would not be possible without the deep-rooted support of our community and partners. From funding literary programming to keeping our events accessible and our village vibrant, your generosity allows us to dream big and gather widely.
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thank you to our sponsors 📚🌿
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival would not be possible without the deep-rooted support of our community and partners. From funding literary programming to keeping our events accessible and our village vibrant, your generosity allows us to dream big and gather widely.
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival would not be possible without the deep-rooted support of our community and partners. From funding literary programming to keeping our events accessible and our village vibrant, your generosity allows us to dream big and gather widely.
🌿✨ Story Is a State of Mind: A Whole-Mind Writing Workshop
Sept 7th, Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What if writing could feel as natural as breathing? Acclaimed author and writing coach Sarah Selecky invites you to reconnect with your creative curiosity in this immersive workshop.
Sept 7th, Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What if writing could feel as natural as breathing? Acclaimed author and writing coach Sarah Selecky invites you to reconnect with your creative curiosity in this immersive workshop.
September 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌿✨ Story Is a State of Mind: A Whole-Mind Writing Workshop
Sept 7th, Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What if writing could feel as natural as breathing? Acclaimed author and writing coach Sarah Selecky invites you to reconnect with your creative curiosity in this immersive workshop.
Sept 7th, Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What if writing could feel as natural as breathing? Acclaimed author and writing coach Sarah Selecky invites you to reconnect with your creative curiosity in this immersive workshop.
From Guelph’s own literary ground comes a chorus of voices that refuse to be contained.
Stories That Won’t Stay Still, Co-Presented with Vocamus Press. Sept 7th. Ft. Kasia Jaronczyk, Adam Lindsay Honsinger, Zane Koss, and ex-Guelphite, Joanna Cockerline. Hosted by Jeremy Luke Hill. emwf.ca
Stories That Won’t Stay Still, Co-Presented with Vocamus Press. Sept 7th. Ft. Kasia Jaronczyk, Adam Lindsay Honsinger, Zane Koss, and ex-Guelphite, Joanna Cockerline. Hosted by Jeremy Luke Hill. emwf.ca
September 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
From Guelph’s own literary ground comes a chorus of voices that refuse to be contained.
Stories That Won’t Stay Still, Co-Presented with Vocamus Press. Sept 7th. Ft. Kasia Jaronczyk, Adam Lindsay Honsinger, Zane Koss, and ex-Guelphite, Joanna Cockerline. Hosted by Jeremy Luke Hill. emwf.ca
Stories That Won’t Stay Still, Co-Presented with Vocamus Press. Sept 7th. Ft. Kasia Jaronczyk, Adam Lindsay Honsinger, Zane Koss, and ex-Guelphite, Joanna Cockerline. Hosted by Jeremy Luke Hill. emwf.ca
Poetry is personal, political, and perpetually in motion. Four distinctive voices reflect on land, motherhood, identity, ancestry, and the unexpected. Ft. Terese Mason Pierre, Lisa Baird, Melinda Burns, and D.A. Lockhart. Sept 7 · Sunday Street Festival · emwf.ca
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Poetry is personal, political, and perpetually in motion. Four distinctive voices reflect on land, motherhood, identity, ancestry, and the unexpected. Ft. Terese Mason Pierre, Lisa Baird, Melinda Burns, and D.A. Lockhart. Sept 7 · Sunday Street Festival · emwf.ca
Remembering the Body ✨
Sept 7 at the Street Festival Sunday
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What happens when the body refuses to follow the script?
This conversation brings together writers whose work challenges traditional narratives of health, femininity, and form. With Ardra Shephard, Em Wright, and Kate Gies.
Sept 7 at the Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What happens when the body refuses to follow the script?
This conversation brings together writers whose work challenges traditional narratives of health, femininity, and form. With Ardra Shephard, Em Wright, and Kate Gies.
September 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Remembering the Body ✨
Sept 7 at the Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What happens when the body refuses to follow the script?
This conversation brings together writers whose work challenges traditional narratives of health, femininity, and form. With Ardra Shephard, Em Wright, and Kate Gies.
Sept 7 at the Street Festival Sunday
emwf.ca
What happens when the body refuses to follow the script?
This conversation brings together writers whose work challenges traditional narratives of health, femininity, and form. With Ardra Shephard, Em Wright, and Kate Gies.
History’s margins hold some of its most powerful stories. In this conversation, three acclaimed storytellers resurrect forgotten lives with lyricism, research, and fierce imagination. With Linden MacIntyre, Robert Hough, and Christine Estima. Hosted by Katherine Ashenburg. Sept 7 · emwf.ca
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
History’s margins hold some of its most powerful stories. In this conversation, three acclaimed storytellers resurrect forgotten lives with lyricism, research, and fierce imagination. With Linden MacIntyre, Robert Hough, and Christine Estima. Hosted by Katherine Ashenburg. Sept 7 · emwf.ca
Join us for “Life Has a Funny Way…”, where three authors share how their tangled, unexpected lives became unforgettable fiction: Liann Zhang (Julie Chan is Dead), Maria Reva (Endling), Farah Ghafoor (Shadow Price). Hosted by Antonio Michael Downing, CBC’s The Next Chapter. Sept 7 emwf.ca
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Join us for “Life Has a Funny Way…”, where three authors share how their tangled, unexpected lives became unforgettable fiction: Liann Zhang (Julie Chan is Dead), Maria Reva (Endling), Farah Ghafoor (Shadow Price). Hosted by Antonio Michael Downing, CBC’s The Next Chapter. Sept 7 emwf.ca
The 2025 EMWF festival map is live — and with it, a few exciting updates for your day in Eden Mills: The Cedars (a shady rest and workshop area tucked beneath the trees), The Village Loom (our new children’s craft & activity zone) and the new location for the Children’s Stage. More at emwf.ca !
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The 2025 EMWF festival map is live — and with it, a few exciting updates for your day in Eden Mills: The Cedars (a shady rest and workshop area tucked beneath the trees), The Village Loom (our new children’s craft & activity zone) and the new location for the Children’s Stage. More at emwf.ca !
Fangs. Magic. Lust. Longing. Power plays.
Welcome to Romantasy — where steamy romance meets fantasy world-building. Join authors Shalini Abeysekara, A.J. Vrana, and M.K. Lobb for a genre-deep dive into what makes a good romantasy… so hot.
Hosted by Sidrah, Bookstagrammer
Sunday, Sept 7 emwf.ca
Welcome to Romantasy — where steamy romance meets fantasy world-building. Join authors Shalini Abeysekara, A.J. Vrana, and M.K. Lobb for a genre-deep dive into what makes a good romantasy… so hot.
Hosted by Sidrah, Bookstagrammer
Sunday, Sept 7 emwf.ca
September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Fangs. Magic. Lust. Longing. Power plays.
Welcome to Romantasy — where steamy romance meets fantasy world-building. Join authors Shalini Abeysekara, A.J. Vrana, and M.K. Lobb for a genre-deep dive into what makes a good romantasy… so hot.
Hosted by Sidrah, Bookstagrammer
Sunday, Sept 7 emwf.ca
Welcome to Romantasy — where steamy romance meets fantasy world-building. Join authors Shalini Abeysekara, A.J. Vrana, and M.K. Lobb for a genre-deep dive into what makes a good romantasy… so hot.
Hosted by Sidrah, Bookstagrammer
Sunday, Sept 7 emwf.ca
Murder. Mayhem. Influencers. Aunties.
Four authors redefining the genre: Uzma Jalaluddin, Liann Zhang, Bianca Marais, and Shari Lapena. They’ll talk craft, suspense, plotting the perfect crime, and what keeps us turning pages well past bedtime. Sunday, Sept 7 Street Festival with EMWF.
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Four authors redefining the genre: Uzma Jalaluddin, Liann Zhang, Bianca Marais, and Shari Lapena. They’ll talk craft, suspense, plotting the perfect crime, and what keeps us turning pages well past bedtime. Sunday, Sept 7 Street Festival with EMWF.
emwf.ca
September 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Murder. Mayhem. Influencers. Aunties.
Four authors redefining the genre: Uzma Jalaluddin, Liann Zhang, Bianca Marais, and Shari Lapena. They’ll talk craft, suspense, plotting the perfect crime, and what keeps us turning pages well past bedtime. Sunday, Sept 7 Street Festival with EMWF.
emwf.ca
Four authors redefining the genre: Uzma Jalaluddin, Liann Zhang, Bianca Marais, and Shari Lapena. They’ll talk craft, suspense, plotting the perfect crime, and what keeps us turning pages well past bedtime. Sunday, Sept 7 Street Festival with EMWF.
emwf.ca
📣 We’re opening the gates early this year!
The Eden Mills Street Festival now starts at 10:00 AM on Sunday, Sept 7.
What else is new?
→ More workshops and panels
→ New stages tucked into unexpected corners
→ A whole-day literary adventure in the heart of the village
The Eden Mills Street Festival now starts at 10:00 AM on Sunday, Sept 7.
What else is new?
→ More workshops and panels
→ New stages tucked into unexpected corners
→ A whole-day literary adventure in the heart of the village
September 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
📣 We’re opening the gates early this year!
The Eden Mills Street Festival now starts at 10:00 AM on Sunday, Sept 7.
What else is new?
→ More workshops and panels
→ New stages tucked into unexpected corners
→ A whole-day literary adventure in the heart of the village
The Eden Mills Street Festival now starts at 10:00 AM on Sunday, Sept 7.
What else is new?
→ More workshops and panels
→ New stages tucked into unexpected corners
→ A whole-day literary adventure in the heart of the village
Short stories are tiny powerhouses.
Join Pratap Reddy, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Catherine Bush as they explore how they stretch the limits of the short form. Hosted by author Greg Rhyno, this is a morning of sharp insights and beautiful storytelling.
Sun, Sept 7
10:30 AM
Eden Mills, ON
emwf.ca
Join Pratap Reddy, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Catherine Bush as they explore how they stretch the limits of the short form. Hosted by author Greg Rhyno, this is a morning of sharp insights and beautiful storytelling.
Sun, Sept 7
10:30 AM
Eden Mills, ON
emwf.ca
September 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Short stories are tiny powerhouses.
Join Pratap Reddy, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Catherine Bush as they explore how they stretch the limits of the short form. Hosted by author Greg Rhyno, this is a morning of sharp insights and beautiful storytelling.
Sun, Sept 7
10:30 AM
Eden Mills, ON
emwf.ca
Join Pratap Reddy, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Catherine Bush as they explore how they stretch the limits of the short form. Hosted by author Greg Rhyno, this is a morning of sharp insights and beautiful storytelling.
Sun, Sept 7
10:30 AM
Eden Mills, ON
emwf.ca
Our festival shuttle is FREE and HOURLY all day — so swing by for a set or settle in till sunset. It even drops you closer than parking: right at the East Gate, beside a main stage. 🚌✨
Plan your day using the schedule on our website • Tickets: emwf.ca
Plan your day using the schedule on our website • Tickets: emwf.ca
September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our festival shuttle is FREE and HOURLY all day — so swing by for a set or settle in till sunset. It even drops you closer than parking: right at the East Gate, beside a main stage. 🚌✨
Plan your day using the schedule on our website • Tickets: emwf.ca
Plan your day using the schedule on our website • Tickets: emwf.ca
Something strange is happening in small-town Ontario…
Join us as we launch Aliens on the Moon with literary legend Thomas King, in conversation with David A. Robertson. Expect sly wit, political teeth, and the kind of storytelling that only King can deliver. Sunday, Sept 7
emwf.ca
#EMWF2025
Join us as we launch Aliens on the Moon with literary legend Thomas King, in conversation with David A. Robertson. Expect sly wit, political teeth, and the kind of storytelling that only King can deliver. Sunday, Sept 7
emwf.ca
#EMWF2025
September 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Street Festival Sunday starts earlier this year — 10:00 AM (not noon)!
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
August 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Street Festival Sunday starts earlier this year — 10:00 AM (not noon)!
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario
Swipe for the full schedule: panels, readings, workshops, food & vendors. We’ll be rolling from 10:00–5:00 — come early and make a day of it.
🎟️ Get your Sunday pass now: emwf.ca
#EMWF2025 #EdenMills #DiscoverOntario