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.
Explore the books behind Wordstock Sudbury’s 13th Edition. Our 2026 Reading List brings together titles from this year’s featured authors. Pick up a copy during the festival weekend, October 16th-17th, from our festival bookseller, Parry Sound Books.
Moonlight Murders
By Uzma Jalaluddin
Moon of the Turning Leaves
By Waubgeshig Rice
By Maggie Helwig
Encampment: Resistance, Grace and an Unhoused Community
By Maggie Helwig
Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil
By Kim Echlin
Seldon Seen Road
By John Degen
The Blind Date Agreement
By Jessica Consolo
Hail Mary
By Elizabeth Urso
Infinite Audition
By Charlie Petch
Black Cherokee
By Antonio Michael Downing
The Pollination Field
By Kim Fahner
One Soft Infested Summer
By Matthew Heiti
Here’s to Letting Go
By Blaine Thornton
Skin
By Tyler Pentock
Children of the Promised Land
By Adam Mardero
Local Matter: An Anthology of Poetry
Edited by Alexia Cousineau
Zenith: Aftermath
By Scott Overton
North of Broken & Furever Home
By Holly B. Gutwillinger
She’s With Me
By Jessica Cunsolo
Super Canucks
Edited by Matthew D. Del Papa and Andy W. Taylor
Winter Sorrow
By Tamsin Sheridan
Nickel City Fifs
By Alex Tétreault
