Novelist, poet, and publisher Barry Callaghan is one of Canada’s great men of letters. He has received more than a dozen Canadian National Magazine Awards, was awarded the inaugural W.O. Mitchell Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the Trillium Award in 1999.

Ken Campbell, senior writer for The Hockey News the past three years, has covered hockey at all levels of the game for more than two decades. Born in Sudbury, he reported on the Maple Leafs and the NHL as a Toronto Star writer for eight years and has witnessed many of hockey's biggest events, from Olympic Games to world junior championships to Stanley Cup finals.

Sandra Carpenter-Davis has been a professional storyteller for over 25 years. A teacher/trainer with the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program since 1989, Sandra is the collector/editor of Bounce Me, Tickle Me, Hug Me, a multicultural rhyme collection.

Debbie’s two award-winning CDs of children’s music are called Simply Beautiful and Up and Over the Moon. Her music will that will really mooooove you!

Jean-Pierre Challet was born and raised in Lyon, the gastronomic heart of France. He studied at the École Hotelière in Nice before moving to Canada, where he has become one of the country’s top chefs.

Marjorie Chan is a theatre artist based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a Dora Award in performance as well as the prestigious K.M. Hunter Artists’ Award.

Karen Connelly won the Governor General’s Award for her l992 national bestseller, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. She is also the author of a second book of non-fiction, One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France & Greece. In addition, she has written four books of poetry. Her novel, The Lizard Cage, was shortlisted for the US Kiriyama Prize and won the UK Orange Prize for New Fiction.

Jeff Crump developed his talents working at a number of the world’s top restaurants: Lumière in Vancouver B.C., The Fat Duck in Bray, England and Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. He is a Canadian Slow Food pioneer and the executive chef at the Ancaster Old Mill.