Something To Do: LitFest '09
e Location: various locations (downtown Edmonton) Address: Suite 6-22, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square Phone: 780-498-2500 Email: litfest@interbaun.com Dates: Wednesday, October 21-Sunday, October 25, 2009 Hours: Starts at Noon (Wed.-Fri.)/ 10AM (Sat.)/ 11AM (Sun.) Cost: $100 (full pass)/ $25 (student pass) The country's only creative non-fiction festival is Edmonton's International Literary Festival , LitFest for short. Now in its eighth year LitFest brings together award-winning and emerging writers, artists and filmmakers for thought-provoking presentations, readings and panel discussions. The 5-day event celebrates and promotes local writers and artists who "employ the diligence of a reporter, the shifting voices and viewpoints of a novelist, the refined work play of a poet and the analytical modes of the essayist and a journalist." The successor of the Alberta Book Fair, LitFest also includes three pre-event showcases: "The Dissent of China" at th...