Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Big Al McKee, The Carrot, Mackenzie Ground, Rayanne Haines, Sage Giroux, Haroldo de Campos, Autumn Strom, Alice Major, sakâw laboucan, Sam Stralak, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Spoken Word Youth Choir (SWYC), Funicular Magazine, Sharon Thesen, Tim Bowling, Kyla Jamieson, Susan McCaslin, Catherine Owen, Thea Bowering, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Damn Magpies (a free-improvisation sextet), and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Omar Ramadan, Lauren Seal, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Alice Major, Sage Giroux, Yusi, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Titilope Sonuga, Kihew Giroux, Sublime Intervention Collective, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Alice Major, Jason Purcell, Norma Dunning, Jenna Butler, Katherine Gibson, V. Guzman, Matthew James Weigel, Poets for Ukraine, Gavin Bradley, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Timiro Mohamed, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Rayanne Haines, Jillian Christmas, Jason Purcell, Nisha Patel, and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Helen Knott, Vivek Shraya, Desmond Cole, Karrie Auger, Ana Ruiz Aguirre, Tamara (Baldhead) Pearl, Adriana Oniță, Saltwater Hank, James Raffan, Ian Keteku, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Titilope Sonuga, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Brandon Wint, Buddy Wakefield, Pierrette Requier, Catherine Owen, Maria Barbu, Cobra Collins, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Zach Polis, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Jordan Abel, Sofia Parrila, Reinekke Lengelle, Ella Zeltserman, Timiro Mohamed, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Evelyne Gagnon, Jan Zwicky, Jocelyne Verret, Alessandra Naccarato, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Nanise, Pearl Lorentzen, Morgan Smith, Rebecca Thomas, Marina Reid Hale, Norma Dunning, Kimmy Beach, Claire Kelly, Alison Clarke, Liz Howard, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Medgine Mathurin, Nisha Patel, Matt Miller, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Liam Coady, Pierrette Requier, Gerald St. Maur, Weyman Chan, Lise Gaboury-Diallo, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Carole Saint-Cyr, Margaret Code, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Kathryn Mockler, Gary Garrison, Michael Gravel, Gary Geddes, Amy Willans, Garth Martens, Lori Anne Youngman, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Joe Gurba, Deborah Lawson, Christine S. Frederick, Ian Stephen, Hugh McMillan, Gary Garrison, Rhea Tregebov, Julie Robinson, Harleen Cheema, Giselle Lemire, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Florent J. Feulefack, Trisia Eddy, Jason Lee Norman, Patricia Darbasie, Liz Lochhead, Fred Wah, Eric Folsom, Kasia Gawlak, Kevan Anthony Cameron, John Leppard, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Lyra Brown, Jenna Butler, Raphaël Freynet, Kath MacLean, Jérôme Melançon, Diane Buchanan, Jannie Edwards, Nora Gould, Barbara Langhorst, Peter Midgley, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Tanya Davis, Sheri-D Wilson, Mary Pinkoski, Peter Midgley, Kerry Mulholland, Jeff Carpenter, E.D. Blodgett, Tanya Evanson, Theresa Moritz, Robert Kpogo, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Titilope Sonuga, Su Croll, Jolanta Lapiak, Kimmy Beach, Shelley Leedahl, rob mclennan, Politic Live, Robert Heidbreder, Lorri Nielsen Glenn, Laurie MacFayden, and more.
All from 2010