Northwestern Ontario Writer\u2019s Workshop (NOWW) is pleased to announce author Waubgeshig Rice will be the guest author\/Keynote speaker for LitFest 2026!<\/p>\n
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\u201cNOWW is thrilled to be hosting Waubgeshig Rice as our keynote speaker for Litfest 2026,\u201d says NOWW president Alex Marino. \u201cWith experience in Journalism, short fiction, and three award-winning novels to his credit, Waub’s work is representative of what it means to write in the North!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n As an author and journalist from\u00a0Wasauksing First Nation<\/strong>, Rice has written four books, most notably the bestselling novel\u00a0Moon of the Crusted Snow<\/em><\/strong>, published in 2018, and its sequel,\u00a0Moon of the Turning Leaves<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em> published in 2023. He graduated from the journalism program at\u00a0Toronto Metropolitan University\u00a0in 2002 and spent most of his journalism career with the\u00a0Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\u00a0as a video journalist and radio host.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition to his writing endeavours, Waubgeshig is an eclectic public speaker, delivering keynote addresses and workshops, engaging in multimedia interviews, and contributing to various panels at literary festivals and conferences. He speaks on creative writing and oral storytelling, contemporary Anishinaabe culture and matters, Indigenous representation in arts and media, and more. He will join NOWW on Friday May 22 for a public reading, will run a literary workshop on Saturday, May 23, and be the keynote speaker for the 2026 LitFest Awards Party and Gala Dinner that night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWaub is at a very exciting\u00a0time in his career,\u201d says Marino. \u201cAnd we\u2019re very lucky to have him bring his energy and perspective to our festival this year.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LitFest 2026 includes public reading, a Book Fair, 3 literary\/publishing workshops, the 28th<\/sup> Annual Literary Contest Awards and a Gala Dinner. More info on LitFest 2026 to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Northwestern Ontario Writer\u2019s Workshop (NOWW) is pleased to announce author Waubgeshig Rice will be the guest author\/Keynote speaker for LitFest 2026! \u201cNOWW is thrilled to be hosting Waubgeshig Rice as our keynote speaker for Litfest 2026,\u201d says NOWW president Alex Marino. \u201cWith experience in Journalism, short fiction, and three award-winning novels to his credit, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 05:31:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80672,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80671\/revisions\/80672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}