Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
The League of Canadian Poets, Devika Short, Joleen Ballendine, The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), Sara Campos-Silvius, Autumn Strom, Rapid Fire Theatre, Thurga Kanagasekarampillai, Aaron Kreuter, Chelsea Dingman, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Damn Magpies (a free-improvisation sextet), Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Thea Bowering, Horizon Writers Circle, Katie Bickell, Olivia Spring, Marilyn Dumont, Matthew James Weigel, Catherine Owen, The Stroll of Poets Society, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Joe Bishop, Bänoo Zan, Ryan James Summers (Some-Sum), Titilope Sonuga, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, Alice Major, Carley Lizotte, Kihew Giroux, Bree Taylor, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Titilope Sonuga, Sampler Café Collective, Poets for Ukraine, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Michelle Poirier Brown, Paul Pearson, Tzadeka and the Murder Hornettes, Ryan James Summers (Some-Sum), Gavin Bradley, Marco Melfi, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Jason Purcell, Timiro Mohamed, Nisha Patel, Jillian Christmas, Rayanne Haines, and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Brandon Wint, Jennifer Reeser, K’alii, Amanda Leduc, Antoine Mountain, Ian Keteku, Desmond Cole, Adriana Oniță, Jordan Abel, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Jason Purcell, Lady Vanessa, Hilary Mussel, Doyali Islam, Selassie Drah, Karen Unland, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Kelly Shepherd, Natalie Wee, Anna Marie Sewell, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Marilyn Dumont, Marina Reid Hale, Scott Jackshaw, Omar Farah, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Richard Davies, Randy Kohan, Myrl Coulter, Christian Campbell, Austen Lee, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Liam Coady, Lady Vanessa, Marilyn Dumont, Nora Gould, Gisèle Villeneuve, Rebecca Thomas, Morgan Smith, Claire Kelly, Micheline Maylor, Nanise, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Charlotte Cranston, Manijeh Mannani, Colin Matty, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Megan Dart, Tim Mikula, Lady Vanessa, Winona Linn, Alice Major, Sarah Lang, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Paul Sanderson, Sheri-D Wilson, Joanna Lilley, DC Reid, Jason Lee Norman, Josée Thibeault, John Leppard, Mandie Lopatka, Jenna Broomfield, Roylin Picou, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Sandy Pool, Julie Robinson, Megan Keirstead, Douglas Barbour, E.D. Blodgett, Kasia Gawlak, Shawna Lemay, Liz Withey, Rhea Tregebov, Deborah Ramkhelawan, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Robert Kpogo, Mary Pinkoski, Heather Simeney MacLeod, Jason Lee Norman, Kris Demeanor, Giselle Lemire, Anna Marie Sewell, Don Kerr, Valerie Mason-John, Mireille Moquin, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Jonathan Hart, Josée Thibeault, John Steffler, Marilyn Dumont, Bob Holman, Greg Debicki, Lyra Brown, Peter Midgley, Gerry Morita, Ifeoma Chiwetelu, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Tanya Davis, Regie Cabico, Valerie Mason-John, Theresa Moritz, a.rawlings, E.D. Blodgett, Jannie Edwards, Robert Kpogo, Sydney Lancaster, Mary Pinkoski, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Robert Kroetsch, Cadence Weapon, Kimmy Beach, Robert Heidbreder, Tonguebath, Nancy Mackenzie, Yukari Meldrum, Ariel Gordon, Joe Gurba, Don McKay, and more.
All from 2010