Wild Threads 2024

Wild Threads Literary Festival 2024, presented by the PEI Writers Guild, will return from September 19–22.

Programming this year will include music, comedy, storytelling, workshops and panels, all within 30 minutes of Charlottetown.

Wild Threads 2024 will introducte their first ever bilingual event at Watermark Theatre in North Rustico that will be catered with Acadian-inspired food and will feature Francophone music, storytelling, poetry, and special musical guests. 

The Festival will be in Hunter River for the first time at Harmony House for a show that looks at music, lyricism, authorship, and storytelling through an activist/feminist lens. This event will be hosted by Evelyn Bradley and will feature some of Harmony House’s female and non-binary musicians like Joce Reyome, Alicia Toner, Carlie Howell, and Brielle Ansems.

The Jack Pine Folk Club, featuring poets, musicians, storytellers and entertainers, will return at Trailside Music Hall in Charlottetown. 

A comedy show at The Guild will showcase Allyson June Smith (UK), Heidi Brander, and a special performance by PEI Poet Laureate Tanya Davis. There will also be a comedy writing workshop with former This Hour Has 22 Minutes head writer Heidi Brander. 

The inaugural young adult writing workshop will take place at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre, and a fiction writing workshop will be held in Victoria-by-the-Sea. 

Full the full program, tickets, and more, visit wildthreadsliteraryfestival.com and follow @wildthreadspei.