Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
The Carrot, RAFA, Julie Rak, Jayme Poitras, Haroldo de Campos, Gavin Bradley, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Agatha Press, Big Al McKee, Carmyn Effa, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Michelle Lobkowicz, Dawn MacDonald, Margaret Christakos, Tim Bowling, University of Alberta Press, Trisia Eddy, Patrick Grace, Anna Marie Sewell, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Kat Cameron, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Emily Riddle, Gavin Doyle, Ryan James Summers (Some-Sum), Charlee Queen XO, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), MadJohn!, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Sublime Intervention Collective, Bree Taylor, Samantha Jones, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
V. Guzman, Peter Midgley, Kelly Shepherd, Norma Dunning, Marilyn Dumont, Matthew James Weigel, Indigenous Poets Society, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rayanne Haines, Jenna Butler, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Timiro Mohamed, Nisha Patel, Rayanne Haines, Jason Purcell, Jillian Christmas, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Saltwater Hank, Maitham Salman, Isael Huard, Harnarayan Singh, Juliana Neufeld, Jennifer Reeser, Mark Spector, Gina Rae La Cerva, Zoë Johnson, Anna Marie Sewell, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Jenna Butler, Chelsea Dingman, James Collier, Cristian De La Luna, Brandon Wint, Dan Dennis (2 Moods), Omar Farah, Adriana Oniță, Rayanne Haines, Canisia Lubrin, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Helen Knott, Liam Coady, Josée Thibeault, Margaret Christakos, Rayanne Haines, Norma Dunning, Amy Malbeuf, Nicholas Bradley, Benjamin Hertwig, Jan Zwicky, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Maya Gupta, Laurie MacFayden, Floyd Robert-Maduekwe, Micheline Maylor, Tab CA, Kaz Mega, Nasra Adem, Pearl Lorentzen, Marina Reid Hale, Pierrette Requier, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, John Leppard, Gisèle Villeneuve, Pierrette Requier, Harold Rhenisch, Nisha Patel, Colin Matty, Tab CA, Matt Miller, Charlotte Cranston, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Jenna Broomfield, Patrick Connors, David Prodan, Giselle Lemire, Lori Anne Youngman, Ariane Mahrÿke, Sue Goyette, Steven Michael Berzensky, Deceptive Cadence Players, Debbie Okun Hill, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Lainna Lane El Jabi, Michael Penny, Stephen Scobie, Kasia Gawlak, Jason Lee Norman, Kath MacLean, Harleen Cheema, Christine S. Frederick, Alice Major, Ariane Mahrÿke, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Evelyn Lau, Lynett McKell, Francisco A. Fwallah, Elsa Robinson, Florent J. Feulefack, Titilope Sonuga, Gisèle Villeneuve, Medgeen Guillet, pj johnson, Fred Wah, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Nancy Mattson, Ben Murray, Anna Marie Sewell, Jenna Butler, Douglas Barbour, Jason Kodie, Heather Simeney MacLeod, John Steffler, Lyra Brown, Gisèle Villeneuve, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
A.F. Moritz, Cathy Hodgson, Michael Gravel, Kath MacLean, Sandi Somers, Ian Keteku, Susan McCaslin, Theresa Moritz, Tanya Davis, Karen Solie, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Kwazii (Dakwon), Omar Mouallem, Alice Major, Ariel Gordon, Yukari Meldrum, Helene Garrett, Robert Heidbreder, Politic Live, Titilope Sonuga, Peter Midgley, and more.
All from 2010