Headliners Archive
2024
Voices Flow
Susan McCaslin, Anna Marie Sewell, The Stroll of Poets Society, Marilyn Dumont, Sharon Thesen, Margaret Christakos, Thea Bowering, Trisia Eddy, Tim Bowling, Peter Midgley, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Ink Movement, Joe Bishop, Paige Cardinal, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Chasidy, Medgine Mathurin, Sublime Intervention Collective, Daniel Poitras, MadJohn!, Ty Bruce, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Marco Melfi, Peter Midgley, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Indigenous Poets Society, Paul Pearson, Tzadeka and the Murder Hornettes, Alexis Kienlen, Ryan James Summers (aka) Some-Sum, Norma Dunning, Marilyn Dumont, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Timiro Mohamed, Rayanne Haines, Nisha Patel, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Jillian Christmas, Jason Purcell, and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Dorothy Thunder, Jordan Abel, Amanda Leduc, Juliana Neufeld, Ana Ruiz Aguirre, Zoë Johnson, Marco Melfi, Yasser Abdellatif, Anya Zoledziowski, Lorna Crozier, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Rayanne Haines, Kelly Shepherd, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Barra Ó Scannláin, Zach Polis, Megan Dart, Lindsay Knox, Maria Barbu, Cobra Collins, James Collier, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Sharon McCartney, Christian Campbell, Marina Reid Hale, Nicholas Bradley, Mark A. McCutcheon, Sarah-Jean Krahn, Marilyn Dumont, Richard Davies, Jordan Abel, Myrl Coulter, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Mary Pinkoski, Nasra Adem, Richard Van Camp, Liam Coady, Morgan Smith, Jane Munro, Kathy Fisher, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Malik Hinton, Norma Dunning, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Gavin Doyle, Randy Kohan, Charlotte Cranston, Medgine Mathurin, Kimmy Beach, Wendy McGrath, Dennis Cooley, Weyman Chan, Ahmed Knowmadic, Bernard Salva, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Gary Garrison, David Brydges, Leif Gregersen, Peter Midgley, Liam Coady, Paul Sanderson, Kelsey Knight, Shirley Serviss, Ikenna Onyegbula, Ella Zeltserman, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Hugh McMillan, Val Brandt, Stephen Scobie, Anna Marie Sewell, Capital City Burlesque, Aliya Tariq, Randy Kohan, Heather Macklem, Marita Dachsel, Pushpa Raj Acharya, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Kasia Gawlak, Mireille Moquin, CR Avery, Fred Wah, Paul Zits, Erika Luckert, Alison Clarke, Don Kerr, Richard Harrison, Jérôme Melançon, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Nora Gould, Sally Ito, Shawna Lemay, Josée Thibeault, Jannie Edwards, Greg Debicki, Pierrette Requier, Mike Lent, Jérôme Melançon, Peter Midgley, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Stephen Scobie, Valerie Mason-John, Catherine Owen, Goran Simic, Tanya Davis, David Seymour, Kath MacLean, Mary Pinkoski, Sandi Somers, Sydney Lancaster, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Yukari Meldrum, Titilope Sonuga, Shawna Lemay, Ariel Gordon, Kwazii (Dakwon), rob mclennan, Nancy Mackenzie, Mitch Holtby, George Bowering, Ahmed Knowmadic, and more.
All from 2010