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The Word On The Street's 2026 Exhibitor Marketplace is one of the best of its kind in southern Alberta. It offers festival-goers a window into the Canadian literary scene, the chance to purchase books, merchandise and learn from over 40 local vendors and exhibitors - it's Lethbridge's biggest outdoor bookstore! Find your next literary treasure this fall. Registration will be open mid-April for participants.
Non-profit
The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association will be handing out FREE copies of Alberta magazines. We will be highlighting the great diversity of Alberta magazines.
Writing & Publishing
Launched in 1997 and published ten times a year, Alberta Views magazine provides an independent perspective on our politics and culture. Read by well-informed, influential citizens, Alberta Views is essential insight into our province's unique character and challenges.
Commercial
Food
Thin crust New York Style Pizza sourcing local ingredients. The best pizza you've never heard of!
Independent Author
Atlas Wilder is a fiction author with a range that moves confidently across genres, bringing sharp storytelling and a strong sense of atmosphere to every piece he writes. He especially enjoys psychological horror, crime, sci-fi, and thriller fiction, crafting work that is vivid, suspenseful, and built to keep readers turning pages. His writing has appeared in a number of literary publications, including Wicked Shadow Press and Polar Expressions Publishing, and he has also received an honourable mention in *Glossy Planet Magazine*. For readers who enjoy fiction with tension, momentum, and a distinctive voice, Atlas Wilder is an author worth discovering at the Word on the Street Festival at the Lethbridge Public Library.
Independent Author
Broken Silence is a powerful memoir sharing a personal journey of overcoming abuse, trauma, and adversity. Through honesty, resilience, and hope, author Sarah Grigg inspires readers to find their voice, embrace healing, and discover strength in their own stories.
Community Partner
Independent Author
Local children's author Cam Flaig is excited to be returning to Word On The Street! He'll be brining along his classic titles including We Three Kings, Forest Bots, and Sharks Do Hang Ten. These titles are adored by the kids who receive them and the adults who get to read them aloud!
Independent Author
Advocate, storyteller, and community builder, Chelsey Peat brings powerful lived experience to the page and the stage. Through authentic writing and bold advocacy, she challenges stigma, celebrates inclusion, and sparks meaningful conversations about disability, identity, and belonging. Visit to explore her work, connect, and be inspired by stories that center voice, choice, and real connection.
Non-profit
We will talk to interested families or individuals about foster caregiving and give out relevant business cards or information broachers.
Independent Author
Selling my books and display them in hopes to connect with community
Commercial
Book sale by donation
Writing & Publishing
Dream Write Publishing provides quality writing, editing, and publishing services to all authors looking to bring their work from manuscript format to final book layout. In business since 2010, Dream Write Publishing represents a catalog of over 100+ books in all genres and styles. Got an idea? Book a consultation. Got a manuscript? Book a manuscript review. Write your story. Live your dream. We can help publish it!
Independent Author
International and local bestselling author, E. A. M. Trofimenkoff, will have copies of their novels as well as various pieces of merchandise available for purchase. Books come signed with your choice of bookmark!
Non-profit
Environment Lethbridge inspires community action towards sustainability. Visit our booth to learn about reuse and repair and ways to make Lethbridge a living city.
Non-profit
The FLC is a Canadian Official Languages Education Protocol (COLEP) sponsored project that has existed in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics since 2009. The Centre principally offers students and the greater public the opportunity to sit DELF-DALF French Competency exams, as set out by France Education International in France. We also organize a French Film Week and collaborated on various other French-related projects both on campus and in the greater community.
Non-profit
Non-profit
The fun stuff happens outside! Join Nature Centre staff and volunteers to explore a variety of outdoor literacy activities. Interactive games and fun take-aways.
Independent Author
James Saltvold's book, Practical Perpetual Calendars - Innovative, Convenient and Green, describes the unique stand-alone calendar designs he has developed. Although some patents describe ideas that are close to what is needed to make a practical perpetual calendar, to the best of the author's knowledge, nothing equivalent to his designs has been manufactured or patented.
Independent Author
The Scattered Seeds Series A story of defiance and quiet courage and the cost of choosing your own path. Book 1: Roots & Rubble Book 2: Sprigs & Stone Book 2.5: Pines & Petrol