Registration is once again
free this year as is
registration via Eventbrite.
For more information, visit the
Registration Page on our web site.
We look forward to seeing you in August.
For those who have prepaid for either the 2020 or 2021 cancelled in-person festivals, passes and banquet tickets will again be rolled forward to 2023. We realize the pandemic has also brought financial hardship to many. If you require a refund instead, please contact us at
info@whenwordscollide.org citing your name, the type of pass purchased, and the approximate time frame of the purchase, and we will see what we can do. If you can forward us your PayPal receipt, that would be especially helpful.
2022 Festival Guests
In addition to a broad range of presenters brought to you by our affiliates, the festival has invited four guests for special appearances: Edward Willett, Susanna Kearsley, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Terry Brooks.
Edward Willett is an award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including the Worldshapers series and the Masks of Agyrima trilogy (as E.C. Blake) for DAW Books, the YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur, and the YA SF novel
Star Song, among many others.
Website:
https://edwardwillett.com/
New York Times,
USA Today, and
Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley. Her books, which have sold over a million copies in North America alone and are available in translation in more than 25 countries, have won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, and National Readers’ Choice Awards, and been finalists for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year and the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.
Photo credit: Wendy McAlpine
Website:
https://susannakearsley.com/
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the USA Today bestselling author of 14 psychological thrillers, winning the genre's most prestigious awards: five Agathas, four Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, winning 37 EMMYs. Book reviewers call her “a master of suspense” and “superb and gifted storyteller.”
Website:
https://hankphillippiryan.com/
Terry Brooks is best known for
The Sword of Shannara, published in 1977. It became the first work of fiction to ever appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. Since that time, he has written numerous novels in the Shannara, Landover, and Word/Void series, and was hand-selected by George Lucas to write the novelization of
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Website:
https://terrybrooks.net/
2022 Festival Program
The program is nearing completion. Our affiliates are offering up to eight tracks of panel discussions, presentations, workshops, and social events. Check out our web site for
our program in progress. And don't forget to visit our
Program by Sponsor pdf to learn who is doing what.
2022 Sign-Up Sessions (July 1-22)
The festival is happy to include a Blue Pencil Café, Is Your Story Really Ready for Submission? (On Spec Magazine), and Writers Guild of Alberta Program Pitch Sessions. These 1-On-1 sessions are limited and require advance sign-up.
See details in the 1-on-1 Sign-Up Sessions section of the online program.
www.whenwordscollide.org/Events/Festival_Program.php
2022 Master Classes
We are thrilled to announce that 3 of this year's festival guests are providing master classes.
* Building Your Book from the Ground Up
with Edward Willett.
* Once More, with Feeling: Layering Emotion into Your Work
with Susanna Kearsley.
* Everything You Need to Know to Write Your Novel
with Hank Phillippi Ryan..
Details can be found at:
https://www.whenwordscollide.org/Events/Masterclasses.php
Shared Author Table
Authors attending the festival who have books for sale not available elsewhere in the Merchants' Corner are welcome to join the
IFWA-sponsored online cooperative booksellers' table. Sign-up is available via your Eventbrite Festival Ticket.
Public Events
In-person WWC festivals include a number of events open to the public. As we are online this year as a free Eventbrite festival, all regular festival events are open to the public. We invite those who have never attended When Words Collide in the past to take advantage of our free 2022 registration and check us out.
