Cozy Fest 2024: Eighteen more authors get cozy

The world’s comfiest book festival is back for another year! Eighteen authors join us in their snuggliest apparel to read selections from their books for this 2024 edition of Cozy Fest: binge the readings all at once, or check back in each day for a feature on each of these fantastic writers. Read on to see what’s in store this holiday season:

Cozy Fest: The return of the all-virtual, on-demand literary festival (that you can attend in your jammies), only on All Lit Up

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What is Cozy Fest?

For the last couple of holiday seasons, we’ve rejected the hustle and bustle in favour of a moment – or many moments – of literary calm. This on-demand literary festival is perfect for you to catch a literary reading in the middle of holiday errands, snuggled up on the sofa in the evening, or hiding from relatives at a hectic meal (it happens).

Our eighteen readers join up from beside their fireplaces, wrapped up in blankets, and by the fire of candlelight to read passages from their books that spark hope, resilience, kindness, and comfort.

The readings are all available on demand on our YouTube channel right now, and we encourage you to take them in at whatever pace suits you best. Or, come back here every day for features on our reading authors and their books (keep scrolling for the full Cozy Fest schedule).

How can I participate?

In addition to catching the Cozy Fest readings, you can chat about Cozy Fest on social media with the hashtag #ALUcozyfest, and shop the featured books below.

Who is reading?

Here’s a day-by-day schedule of our featured authors and their books:

December 3: Erin Brubacher + These Songs I Know By Heart (Book*hug Press) | feature
& M.V. Feehan + In the Shadow of Crows (Baraka Books) | feature

December 4: Pamela Mulloy + Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel (ECW Press) | feature
& Dan Yashinsky + I Am Full: Stories for Jacob (Signature Editions) | feature

December 5: Barbara Black + Little Fortified Stories (Caitlin Press) | feature
& Hollay Ghadery + Widow Fantasies (Gordon Hill Press) | feature

December 6: Gerard Beirne + The Thickness of Ice (Baraka Books) | feature
& Margie Taylor + Rose Addams (NeWest Press) | feature

December 9: andrea bennett + Hearty: On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) | feature
& Ariel Gordon + Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn) | feature

December 10: Jes Battis + I Hate Parties (Nightwood Editions) | feature
& Amanda Merpaw + Most of All the Wanting (Palimpsest Press) | feature

December 11: Elaine McCluskey + The Gift Child (Goose Lane Editions) | feature
& Sivan Slapak + Here Is Still Here (Linda Leith Publishing) | feature

December 12: Kate Cayley + Lent (Book*hug Press) | feature
& Lydia Kwa + from time to new (Porcupine’s Quill) | feature

December 13: Anna Dowdall + The Suspension Bridge (Radiant Press) | feature
& Leanne Shirtliffe + The Genius Hour Project (Thistledown Press)

Stay tuned for this 2024 edition of All Lit Up’s Cozy Fest, until December 13.

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