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Since 1990, The Word On The Street has proudly hosted some of the finest talent in Canadian literature. Our next festival is shaping up to be another great one. Check out some of the authors, storytellers, and performers who have been involved in the festival over the years.
Adam Pottle is a Deaf author whose works span multiple genres, including fiction, children’s books, drama, film, poetry, and memoir. He was the 2021-22 writer in residence at Sheridan College and a 2022 Warner Bros Discovery Access screenwriting fellow. He has taught English, creative writing, and professional communication for almost twenty years. He lives with his wife Deborah and their two dogs Valkyrie and Loki in a small town outside Saskatoon.
Detailing a six-hour window on April 21, 1941, The Bus features eight different narrators: six mental patients, the doctor who will kill them, and the man who will burn their corpses. Crammed into a bus with thirty-five others and unable to see out the painted windows, the patients are transferred from the Scheuern institution to the Nazi euthanasia clinic in Hadamar, Germany.