Reading allows us to travel and explore the furthest reaches of imagination. Find your way home in these books, featuring Northern Ontario and Northern Ontario’s literary voices.
Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival has been supporting and inspiring Northern readers, writers, and lovers of words for ten years. Making CanLit accessible to those in the north is central to our mission, and many of the authors featured in this reading list have attended Wordstock as guests, participants, and volunteers. Reading local is one way to find and celebrate the talent right here in our Northern community.

Come On Over!
By Dieter K. Buse

Emptying the Ocean
By Kim Fahner

A Burning We Will Die
By Betty Guenette

Woman, Watching
By Merilyn Simonds

In for a Dime
By John Jantunen

Ring of Fire
By Virginia Heffernan

Undergrowth / Broussailles
By Sara Angelucci and Shannon Anderson

No Great Mischief
By Alistair MacLeod

The Underpainter
By Jane Urquart

Beyond The Trees
By Adam Shoalts

Uncommon Sense
By Adam Mardero

Jerry Lewis Told Me I was Going TO Die
By Matthew Del Papa

Notes Towards Recovery
By Louise Ells

Forever Birchwood
By Danielle Daniel

The Sound of A Rainbow
By Sharon Frayne

L’incendiaire de Sudbury
By Chloé LaDuchesse

Grin Reaping
By Rod Carley

Wabanang, An Anishinaabe granddaughter’s search for the truth
By Judii Merle

Enlightened by Defilement
By Vera Constantineau

Unrest
By Emma Coté