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2024 Authors

  • Billy Ray Belcourt
  • Kevin Chong
  • Karolyn Smardz Frost
  • Tsering Yangzom Lama
  • Yann Martel
  • Harrison Mooney
  • Zarqa Nawaz
  • Lenore Newman

2019 Authors

  • Dr. Brian Goldman
  • Carrie Jenkins
  • Terry Jordan
  • Jack Knox
  • Alix Ohlin
  • Ahmad Danny Ramadan
  • Monique Gray Smith
  • Lindsay Wong

2018 Authors

  • David Chariandy
  • Terry Glavin
  • Kim Fu
  • Alix Hawley
  • Mark Leiren-Young
  • Heather O'Neill
  • Renée Sarojini Saklikar
  • Bev Sellars

2017 Authors

  • Jillian Christmas
  • Charles Demers
  • John Donlan
  • Wayne Johnston
  • Molly Peacock
  • Briony Penn
  • Daniel Heath Justice
  • Yasuko Thanh

2016 Authors

  • Wayne Grady
  • Eve Joseph
  • John Vaillant
  • Lucia Misch
  • Tracey Lindberg
  • Grant Lawrence
  • Lori Shenher
  • Timothy Taylor

2015 Authors

  • David Carpenter
  • Ivan Coyote
  • Steven Galloway
  • Sarah Leavitt
  • Bernice Lever
  • Derek Lundy
  • Richard Wagamese
  • Kathleen Winter

2014 Authors

  • Anne Fleming
  • George Littlechild
  • Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Tom Wayman
  • Shaena Lambert
  • Anny Scoones
  • 2 Dopes Boys in a Cadillac
  • Heather Pringle

2013 Authors

  • Charlotte Gill
  • Rawi Hage
  • Matthew Hooton
  • JJ Lee
  • Janet Marie Rogers
  • Andrew Schofield
  • Madeleine Thien
  • Fred Wah

2012 Authors

  • Gurjinder Basran
  • Trevor Herriot
  • Susan Juby
  • Robert J. Wiersema
  • Zsuzsi Gartner
  • Daphnre Marlett
  • Gary Thomas Morse
  • Terry Fallis

2011 Authors

  • Angie Abdon
  • Kate Braid
  • Kevin Chong
  • M.A.C Farrant
  • Shane Koyczan
  • Ian Mulgrew
  • Patricia Robertson
  • Adam Lewis Schroder

2010 Authors

  • Colin Angus
  • Annabel Lyon
  • Gabor Maté
  • Susan Musgrave
  • Kit Pearson
  • Andres Schroeder
  • Harry Thurston
  • Ronald Wright

2009 Authors

  • Marilyn Bowering
  • Wayde Compton
  • Marjorie Doyle
  • John Gould
  • Lorna Jackson
  • Mark Novik
  • Richard Van Camp
  • Rex Wyler

2008 Authors

  • David Chariandy
  • Ivan Coyote
  • Anosh Irani
  • Teresa Kishkan
  • Ruth Ozeki
  • Harold Rhenisch
  • Eden Robinson
  • Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

2007 Authors

  • Lorna Crozier
  • Garry Gottfriedson
  • Des Kennedy
  • Ryan Knighton
  • Myrne Kostash
  • Kathy Page
  • Carol Windley
  • John Valliant

2006 Authors

  • Robert Bringhurst
  • David Carpenter
  • Claudia Casper
  • Patrick Lane
  • Evelyn Lau
  • Annabel Lyon
  • Gregory Scofield
  • Jan Zwicky

Special Guests:
  • Paul Vasey
  • The Honourable Iona Campagnolo, PC, CM, OBC, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

2005 Authors

  • Wayson Choy
  • Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
  • M.A.C Farrant
  • Bill Gaston
  • Pauline Holdstock
  • Aislinn Hunter
  • Carol Neufeld
  • Don McKay
  • Pete Tower
  • Richard Van Camp
  • Irene Watts
  • Judith Williams
  • Annette Yourk

2004 Authors

  • Caroline Adderson
  • William Deverell
  • Steven Galloway
  • John Gould
  • Diane Swanson
  • Madeleine Thien
  • Spider Robinson
  • Erin Robinsong

2003 Authors

  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • George Bowering
  • Mary Coffey & Dag Goering
  • Zsuzsi Gartner
  • Done McKay
  • Jocelyn Reekie
  • Timothy Taylor
  • Jan Zwicky

2002 Authors

  • Anne Caermon
  • Bill Richardson
  • Stephen Hume
  • Susan Mayse
  • Howard White
  • Gary Geddes
  • Lorna Crozier
  • Patrick Lane
  • Jack Hodgins
Thank you to our major sponsors.  The festival would not happen without their contribution.
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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These additional sponsors and community partners ensure that we are able to deliver a festival worth attending!
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