Toronto International Festival of Authors Creates A Home For Authors, Thinkers & Readers From Around The World
The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is delighted to announce this year’s festival of engaging talks, readings, masterclasses, performances and exhibits. Creating a home for readers, writers and story-makers from Toronto and around the world, TIFA’s entertaining 11-day event takes place from September 19 – September 29. Tickets go on sale to the public on August 15 at FestivalofAuthors.ca.
The 2024 Festival explores the concept of “writing home” – from books and stories about the places we all call home, to the ideas, cultures and conflicts that inform what home means to us. TIFA presents a dynamic lineup of conversations and readings with the best fiction and non-fiction writers, movie screenings, food tastings, kids’ activities, poetry slams, and writing masterclasses. Over 100 artists and authors from 11 countries will be featured.
TIFA presents three special events at Koerner Hall in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning with international superstars, Yuval Noah Harari, Liane Moriarty and The Moth. Popular programme streams return including POP Fiction celebrating romance, horror and all things genre; delicious food conversations are to be discovered with Bite the Book; Critical Conversations discuss our contemporary world; and TIFA Kids offers fun-filled weekends of activities and stories. The Festival is honoured to present a new programme stream celebrating Indigenous stories from across Canada including Murray Sinclair, Angela Sterritt and Amanda Peters. The city we all call home is celebrated with a night of readings, music and food as TIFA launches Write the Neighbourhood, a collection of specially commissioned stories published by Book*hug.
“For each one of us, ‘home’ means something a little different; somewhere we belong, somewhere we long for. In a city as multicultural as Toronto we wanted to delve into how our writers and artists explore this idea through stories, food, music, identity, language and illustration,” said Roland Gulliver, Toronto International Festival of Authors Director. “Each year, we imagine ways to bring guests from around the world to encounter fellow Canadian writers and audiences, to immerse themselves in storytelling of all forms, exciting book lovers and inspiring new readers through the power of stories.”
TIFA welcomes bestselling authors to share their captivating stories and unpack critical conversations sparked by current events. With some of the most inspiring writers in fiction, graphic novels, short stories, poetry, political science, and history.
POP FICTION
Spotlighting the best in genre fiction including fantasy, romance, science fiction, graphic novels and horror, POP Fiction invites readers to celebrate stories of sweeping sagas, heroes and villains, soulmates and whatever else makes story-loving hearts POP!
BITE THE BOOK
Exploring the connection between food and community, experts including authors, chefs, food critics and nutritional scientists participate in delicious conversations.
FESTIVAL OF INDIGENOUS STORIES
A special two-day mini-festival celebrating Indigenous authors, creators and thinkers, creating space for voices to be heard and important conversations to be shared.
TIFA KIDS
Featuring the Children’s Book Bank of Toronto, children and families can enjoy fun-filled weekends with free author readings, illustrator workshops and hands-on activities with a variety of storytellers including Lien-En Lin, Yolanda T. Marshall, Germany’s Efua Traore and Geraldo Valerio.
CREATIVE WRITING MASTERCLASSES
TIFA presents its popular series of daily professional writing masterclasses in partnership with The Humber School for Writers. Led by its renowned faculty members and acclaimed authors, each 90-minute class focuses on a specific aspect of writing craft. Masterclasses include: Antanas Sileika on Fact to Fiction; Adam Sol on Poetry; Shyam Selvadurai on Point of View; Nina Dunic on Writing with Instinct and Emotion; Alison Pick on Character Development; and David Bezmozgis on How Much Is Too Much: On The Power of Withholding and Restraint in Writing.
Box office opens Thursday, August 15 and donating TIFA Friends can book all tickets now.