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Welcome to KWF 2023

In 2023, we celebrate the development and evolution of KWF, and explore new opportunities to inspire and engage our audience with the spontaneous, energising, and surprising nature of live events. “Unbound” shines a spotlight on written work that challenges the reader and the literary art form with trail-blazing ideas, creative presentations, and playful structures. In addition to the great fiction, nonfiction, culinary, and poetry events you know and love, we’ve curated a series on graphic novels, spoken word, storytelling, hybrid forms and experimental work.

This is a year to acknowledge the milestones and the authors that helped get us to 15 and explore what more we can be doing as a literary organization to serve our community and artists. 

Aara Macauley, Artistic Director

About The Festival

Welcome to KWF 2023

In 2023, we celebrate the development and evolution of KWF, and explore new opportunities to inspire and engage our audience with the spontaneous, energising, and surprising nature of live events. “Unbound” shines a spotlight on written work that challenges the reader and the literary art form with trail-blazing ideas, creative presentations, and playful structures. In addition to the great fiction, nonfiction, culinary, and poetry events you know and love, we’ve curated a series on graphic novels, spoken word, storytelling, hybrid forms and experimental work.

This is a year to acknowledge the milestones and the authors that helped get us to 15 and explore what more we can be doing as a literary organization to serve our community and artists.

Aara Macauley, Artistic Director

About The Festival

Readers

Are you a Reader?
Check out our Festival events curated especially for your enjoyment.

Writers

Are you haunted by the muses?
Learn more about our writers workshops especially programmed to help you develop and refine your skills at any level.

Readers

Are you a Reader?
Check out our Festival events curated especially for your enjoyment.

Writers

Are you haunted by the muses?
Learn more about our writers workshops especially programmed to help you develop and refine your skills at any level.

Events

Discover the entire exciting lineup for our 15th Annual Festival. Whether you love fiction, social issues, food writing, or spoken word, we have events in a wide variety of genres to inspire and engage. Also, visit our 2023 Author page, download the Digital Program Guide and Schedule at a Glance to learn more.