Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Anna Marie Sewell, Kathy Fisher, Calamansi Club, Funicular Magazine, Bolo Tie Collective, University of Alberta Press, The Carrot, Lisa Baird, The Olive Collective, Sanvi Regmi, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
The Stroll of Poets Society, Bolo Tie Collective, Emma Elder, Patrick Grace, Marilyn Dumont, Anna Marie Sewell, Horizon Writers Circle, Margaret Christakos, Kyla Jamieson, Damn Magpies (a free-improvisation sextet), and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Daniel Poitras, Ty Bruce, Paige Cardinal, Sonja Ruth Greckol, Bree Taylor, Samantha Jones, Chasidy, Robin Hunter, Meghan Eaker, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Matthew James Weigel, Hannah Gelderman, Grayson Thate, Indigenous Poets Society, Jenna Butler, Michelle Poirier Brown, Sublime Intervention Collective, Anna Marie Sewell, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Titilope Sonuga, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Jason Purcell, Jillian Christmas, Rayanne Haines, Nisha Patel, Timiro Mohamed, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Matthew James Weigel, Tazeen Hasan, Gina Rae La Cerva, Namitha Rathinappillai, Amanda Leduc, Ian Keteku, Yasser Abdellatif, Julia Zarankin, Marco Melfi, Desmond Cole, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Josée Thibeault, Hilary Mussel, Barra Ó Scannláin, Ellen Kartz, Catherine Owen, Paige Cardinal, Cobra Collins, Alex Allen, Houssem Ben Lazreg, Dan Dennis (2 Moods), and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Marilyn Dumont, Jordan Abel, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Sarah-Jean Krahn, Gisèle Villeneuve, Norma Dunning, Grayson Thate, Margaret Christakos, Kai Cheng Thom, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Richard Harrison, Lillian Allen, Bert Almon, Marina Reid Hale, Tab CA, Medgine Mathurin, Alison Clarke, David Oberholtzer, Ariel Kroon, Mary Pinkoski, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Anna Marie Sewell, Anna Yin, Catherine Kidd, Marilyn Dumont, Claire Kelly, Christian Bök, Raphaël Freynet, Megan Paranich, Colin Matty, John Leppard, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Morgan Smith, Ariane Mahrÿke, Jenna Broomfield, Colin Matty, Deceptive Cadence Players, Ella Zeltserman, Giselle Lemire, Sue Goyette, Jason Lee Norman, John Leppard, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Joe Gurba, Val Brandt, Dennis Cooley, Deborah Lawson, Megan Keirstead, Kath MacLean, Paul Zits, Ariane Mahrÿke, Anna Marie Sewell, Clint McElwaine, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Liz Withey, Don Kerr, Naomi McIlwraith, Marlon “Arlo Maverick” Wilson, CR Avery, Andy Northrup, Trisia Eddy, Brett Miles, Deborah Lawson, Bruce Meyer, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Alexis Kienlen, Ifeoma Chiwetelu, Sally Ito, Shawna Lemay, Kath MacLean, Bob Holman, Jonathan Hart, Mike Lent, Barbara Langhorst, Jeff Carpenter, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Kelly Shepherd, A.F. Moritz, Laurie MacFayden, Tanya Davis, John Lent, Jeff Carpenter, Stephen Scobie, Kerry Mulholland, Cathy Hodgson, Valerie Mason-John, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Kimmy Beach, Kwazii (Dakwon), Ian Ferrier, Lisa Martin, Mitch Holtby, Su Croll, Tonguebath, Alice Major, Ariel Gordon, rob mclennan, and more.
All from 2010