Writers Trust brings trio of award-winning literary voices to Calgary event

Author Jenny Hejun Wills will be joined onstage by award-winning writers Guy Vanderhaeghe and Marcello di Cintio on May 13 in Calgary at a Writer's Trust of Canada event at the DJD Dance Centre.

The Writers Trust of Canada is celebrating its 50th birthday by bringing a national conversation to Calgary in May to talk about polarization.

A trio of award-winning Canadian writers will take the stage May 13 at the DJD Dance Centre in a Wordfest event hosted by CEO and creative ringleader Shelley Youngblut in a moderated discussion about our increasingly polarized world, how to improve discourse and the role of writing in civil society.

Guy Vanderhaeghe, Jenny Hejun Wills and Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio will join Youngblut on stage.

It’s all part of a four-city national tour that starts in Vancouver in April, Calgary on May 13, Winnipeg on May 21 and Halifax on Oct. 22.

“Writers are deep thinkers and a valuable resource to help us navigate the complexity of our current moment, “said David Leonard, executive director of Writers’ Trust.

“As we looked at our past 50 years and the 50 years ahead, we contemplated what writers and writing mean to Canadians, we saw a need for important conversations in community, and so this series was born. We understand that writers are sense-makers who, through fact and fiction, help us understand who we are and who we might become.”

For more information and tickets, go here.