Our Authors Need a Good Home

Every year The Word On The Street Toronto invites you to get more involved in the literary community by adopting your very own author.  Just imagine: You walk into Queen’s Park on Sunday, Sept. 26 and you can actually say “Ya, I adopted Yann Martel” or “You know Kenneth Oppel?  He’s here because of me.”  We want to give you that glory. We want to give you the opportunity to adopt each and every author that is attending our 21^st festival this year. And it is quite the list.

We have some of the best authors in Canada appearing at our festival this year. They are scheduled to give readings, lead seminars, sign copies of their books, and almost all are available for adoption. By participating in Adopt an Author, you could be one of the few people recognized as a supporter of the author’s presence at the festival. 

This program is a project of The Word On The Street Canada in co-operation with The Word On The Street Toronto. Your donation will go towards the support of the festival’s mission to celebrate Canadian reading and writing, and advocate literacy. Please help us continue this great literary tradition with a donation today!

How it works

It’s simple. For a $100 contribution, an author will be yours. In recognition of your donation you will receive:

• A tax receipt for your charitable donation
• Meet your author and get a signed copy of your author’s book
• Your name announced at your author’s reading

• A personalized certificate

• Acknowledgement on The Word On The Street Toronto’s website
• A chance to be a part of Canada’s largest one-day literary festival!

You can adopt as many authors as you like, and each author can be adopted up to two times.  It makes a great gift for your friends, families or for yourself!  Companies can also take part in the program; it makes a unique corporate gift.

          Adopt an Author Form        Authors available for Adoption

The deadline to adopt is Wednesday, September 22, 2010.

How to adopt:

Choose an author off of our list of authors available to be adopted and email me the name of your chosen author.  I will email you further instructions on how to complete the adoption. 

OR

You can click here for more information about each author listed.  All authors still available for adoption will have a live link beside their name that says “adopt this author,”  which will direct you back to this page. When you have chosen an author, email me! 
        *If the author has already been adopted twice, the link will no longer be available.

Very Important! Please indicate which author you would like to adopt in the email message.  We want to ensure you adopt the right author.  Or you can indicate that you would prefer The Word On The Street Toronto to surprise you.

We can only accept cheques.  Please make cheques payable to “The Word On The Street Canada”.

Thank you in advance for participating in our Adopt an Author program from all of us here at The Word On The Street Toronto and, of course, from our authors.  We look forward to seeing you on September 26!

For more information about the program or to adopt an author

please email Kristen: specialprojects@thewordonthestreet.ca or call us at 416.504.7241.