Sunday, September 23, 2012
Celebrating 11 Years in our Community!
Authors
The Word On The Street Kitchener has proudly hosted some of the finest authors in Canada.
Look to see who will be appearing at The Word On The Street Kitchener this September by using the alphabet links at the top of the right page and searching by surname.
Our comprehesive festival schedule can be viewed by venue on the What's On pages.
Children's entertainer Erick Trapplin with author Nan Forler at The Word On The Street Kitchener 2010. |
Jan Andrews was born in England and now lives at the end of a country road on a lake in eastern Ontario. She has a passion for the Canadian wilderness and for traditional folk and fairy tales. A past National Coordinator of Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada, she is also the co-founder of the eastern Ontario arts education organization...
Rona Arato was born in New York and grew up in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada and the United States. She taught elementary school in Los Angeles and Toronto, adult creative writing for the Toronto District School Board, and has conducted business writing workshops for profit and nonprofit organizations...
Laura Beingessner is the illustrator of four books, including Our Corner Grocery Store written by Joanne Schwartz and the award-winning If the Shoe Fits written by Laura Whipple.
If the Shoe Fitswas awarded a New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing...
Lana Button is a children's author, freelance writer and early childhood educator. Lana has worked with young children for more than twenty years and has contributed child development articles to national magazines including Today's Parent and ParentsCanada. But Lana's passion is picture books! Her first picture...
Sean Cassidy was born and raised in Montreal. His parents kept him well fed and clothed, so, unavoidably, he grew, went to school and discovered that learning was fun. When Sean was in Grade 4, his older brother brought home a small tattered book on “How To Draw”, which he had traded for two Superman comics. Sean was forbidden to...
Scott Chantler is the Shuster Award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novels Two Generals, Northwest Passage, and the Three Thieves series. An acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator he has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning excellence. He is...
Trevor Cole was lauded in a recent Globe and Mail review as “one of the best young novelists in this country.” He has written two novels – Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life (2004), and The Fearsome Particles (2006) – both of which, in a rare event, were short-listed for...
L.M. Falcone writes spooky stories that keep young readers on the edge of their seat. Her novels combine the supernatural with zany comedy. Each spooky, madcap story boasts non-stop action, surprise plot twists and lots of suspense
L.M. Falcone’s spine-chilling mastery of the bizarre, from mummers to walking corpses to banshees,...
Frankie Flowers (aka Frank Ferragine) reaches over 1 million Canadians each week as the gardening expert for BT Toronto, CityLine and City TV News, and also writes a column for Canadian Living. His family business, Bradford Greenhouses, is one of Canada's largest combined greenhouse/garden businesses. He lives with his family in Innisfil,...
Heather Fraser, MA, BA, B.ED, is a writer and historian based in Toronto, Canada. She is the mother of a child who suffers from peanut allergies.
Carla Johnson is a much-loved art and music educator, a photographer, a real estate investor, a mom and a wife. Carla believes everyone lives an extraordinary life, though most of us think our lives are ordinary. While collecting people's recipes she was struck by the profound stories that accompanied each recipe. Many times while she is...
Doug Larson is an award-winning scientist, author, lecturer, instrument maker, and musician. Now an emeritus professor at the University of Guelph, he spends his time lecturing about the union of art and science and uses Storyteller as the touchstone of this philosophy.
Sarita Mandanna was born in Coorg, India, and worked as an investment banker in India and Hong Kong before moving to the United States. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, and was most recently a private equity investor in New York. She currently lives in Toronto.
Ross Pennie is a practicing physician, an infectious-disease specialist in Brantford, Ontario, and a professor at McMaster University. He first cut his teeth as a doctor volunteering in the jungles of Papua, New Guinea. His previous work includes the Governor General's award-nominated The Unforgiving Tides, a creative...
Ted Reader is an award-winning chef and food entertainer, who's parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cookbooks, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.
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Iain Reid has written about music, books, sports, and culture. His writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and online in publications such as the Globe and Mail, National Post, Reader's Digest, and Atlantica Magazine. His work has also appeared on CBC Radio and NPR. His first book, One...
Gregor Robinson has published over 25 stories, a collection (The Dream King), a novel (Hotel Paradiso) and had productions in the Toronto Fringe in 2006 and 2009. He has been nominated for the Journey Prize three times (runner-up, with a story in the Journey Prize Anthology, 1997), National Magazine Awards...
Richard Scarsbrook hails from Toronto, Ontario, and has had his fiction and poetry published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is the winner of many literary awards, including the 2002 Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Short Story Competition, the 2001 New Orphic Short Story Contest, and the 1998 Hinterland Award...
An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, Drew Hayden Taylor has worn many hats in his literary career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to lecturing at the British Museum on the films of Sherman Alexie. Over the last two decades, he has been an award-winning playwright (with over seventy...
Carolyn Wilker is a member of The Editors’ Association of Canada and The Word Guild, an association of writers and editors. She works with business owners to improve their communications, and with writers to improve their manuscripts. Carolyn was a member of the proofreading team for the award-winning Africa Bible Commentary and...
Robert Charles Wilson has been a full-time professional writer since 1986 and has published 14 novels, numerous short stories, and several non-fiction pieces and book reviews. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction novels; including the Hugo Award (for the novel Spin), the John W. Campbell Memorial...
