Scroll through the pages or select a category to see the full roster. Stay tuned as more authors for BookFest 2015 and other events are announced.
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Samuel Archibald
Samuel Archibald’s debut collection of short fiction, Arvida (Éditions Le Quartanier, 2011), won Quebec’s Prix Des Libraries 2012 and Prix…
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Josef Bastian
Josef Bastian is Midwest author and poet whose sense of humor, depth of spirit and reflective imagination resonate within his…
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Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand is a poet and novelist. Her most recent book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize; her…
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David Collier
Since publishing his first essay in R. Crumb’s Weirdo magazine, David Collier has been known for his thoughtful comic essays,…
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Scott Chantler
Scott Chantler was born in Deep River, Ontario, Canada, and still hates the cold. He grew up in St. Thomas,…
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Martine Delvaux
Martine Delvaux est née en 1968. Depuis une quinzaine d’années elle vit à Montréal. Elle est l’auteure du récit Échographies…
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Tom Dilworth
Tom Dilworth is a ‘University Professor’ in the English Department at the University of Windsor; a Killam Fellow; and a…
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Rhonda Douglas
Rhonda Douglas is the author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (Signature Editions, 2008) and…
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Sara Elliott
Sara Elliott grew up in Windsor and completed a Bachelor of Science from the University of Windsor. She then migrated…
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Terry Fallis
Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of four national bestsellers, all published by McClelland & Stewart. His debut novel, The Best Laid…
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Kelly Fordon
Kelly Fordon’s poetry chapbook, On The Street Where We Live won the 2011 Standing Rock Chapbook Contest and her second…
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Marty Gervais
Marty Gervais is an award-winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, editor and teacher. In 1998, he won the prestigious Toronto’s…
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Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books, including The Book of Negroes, winner of The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the…
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David Homel
Né à Chicago en 1952 de parents juifs d’origine ukrainienne et lituanienne, David Homel s’est établi à Montréal il y…
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Michael Januska
Michael Januska was born in Windsor, Ontario, and has worked with books his whole life, both as a bookseller and…
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Karl E. Jirgens
Karl Jirgens is the author of four books including two works of fiction published by Coach House Press and Mercury…
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Mark Kingwell
After some years of graduate education in Britain and the United States, Mark Kingwell found he had inadvertently perfected a…
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Dimitri Nasrallah
Dimitri Nasrallah is the editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint of Véhicule Press. He is the author of the novels…
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Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich was a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. He has published the novel, April Fool’s Day, three short…
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one ten park
Bio Susan Gold Smith and Collette Broeders are artists based in Windsor Ontario. They are two of the founding members…
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Pierrette Paré
Romancière, poète, éditrice, peintre et sculpteur, elle est originaire du Lac – Saint-Jean. Elle a vécu les 30 premières années…
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Pauline Phipps
Pauline Phipps currently holds a full-time, cross-disciplinary appointment in both the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of History…
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Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid’s debut novel When Everything Feels like the Movies won the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature…
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Nino Ricci
NINO RICCI’s first novel, Lives of the Saints, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First…
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Denise Roig
Denise Roig is the author of two critically received collections of short stories: A Quiet Night and a Perfect End…
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Elizabeth Ross
Elizabeth Ross is the author of Kingdom (Palimpsest Press). She was raised in Victoria, BC, and was a poetry editor of PRISM international.…
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Craig Shreve
Craig Shreve was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, the final destination for slaves escaping the United States via…
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Russell Smith
Russell Smith is one of Canada’s funniest and nastiest writers. His previous novels, including How Insensitive and Girl Crazy, are…
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A.J. Somerset
A. J. Somerset has been a soldier, a technical writer, a programmer, and a freelance photographer. His non-fiction has appeared…
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Bob Steele
Bob Steele is the Host of CBC Radio’s Afternoon Drive. Bob has been with the CBC for 25 years first…
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Erica Stevens Abbitt
Prof. Stevens Abbitt is a long-standing member of the Women and Theatre Program for ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher…
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Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki is a writer and performer. Her work includes the novella Cover Me, creative non-fiction collections True Lies and…
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Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa’s most recent book, Light, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2014. She is also the author of…
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Deanna Young
Deanna Young‘s third book of poems, House Dreams, was published by Brick Books in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 Trillium…
