Our 2025 Festival Reading List!
From debut voices to multi-year festival alumni, this year’s reading list celebrates the wide-reaching imagination of Canadian writers.
United by this year’s theme of survival, these works explore the many ways we endure, adapt, and create meaning through literature. The authors featured here reflect the depth of storytelling found in Northern Ontario and spanning across the country.
Come hear them speak, perform, and engage in conversation about these works and the world that has inspired them at Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival, taking place October 24–25, 2025.
The Beauty of Us
By Farzana Doctor
Moon of the Turning Leaves
By Waubgeshig Rice
By Dr. Treena Orchard
Birch and Jay
By Allister Thompson
Product of Italy, Made in Canada
By Rosanna Battigelli
The World So Wide
By Zilla Jones
It Must Be Beautiful to be Finished
By Kate Gies
A Thousand Tiny Awakenings
Edited by Lindsay Mayhew and Connor Lafortune
Wall of Wishes
By Suzy Vadori
The Death Swing at Falcon Lake: and S’more Summer Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants
By Jeremy John
Like Water for Weary Souls
By Liisa Kovala
For Those I Have Loved
By Kyla Heyming (KPH)
The Origami Deception
By David Wickenden
The Identity Crisis Collection
By Scott Overton
Fugitive Rifts
By A-M Mawhiney
