Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Featured Authors
Guy Vanderhaeghe’s previous fiction includes The Last Crossing, The Englishman’s Boy, Things as they Are, Homesick, My Present Age, and Man Descending. Among the many awards and honours he has received are Canada Reads, the Governor General’s Awards (twice), the Writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize. He lives in Saskatchewan.
Sylvia Tyson was for eighteen years one half of the internationally renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia, who shared a manager with such luminaries as Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Sylvia Tyson has recorded ten solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has been recording and performing with the group Quartette. Tyson is a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She lives in Toronto.
Michael Smith is the bestselling author of Chef at Home and The Best of Chef at Home as well as the star of several Food Network TV shows including Chef at Home. A passionate advocate of simple, sustainable flavours, he led the team of chefs that cooked for the world’s Olympians at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. He lives on Prince Edward Island with his son Gabriel.
Natasha Turner, N.D., is a leading naturopathic doctor and an authority on hormonal and digestive concerns. She is the founder of Clear Medicine, a Canadian-based wellness boutique that provides integrated health care. As a health consultant and educator, Dr. Turner lectures across Canada, appears frequently in the media and has contributed to the creation of two commercial weight-loss programs, which have helped to transform many lives.
Laura Calder is host of Food Network Canada’s and the Cooking Channel’s James Beard Award–winning series French Food at Home. She is also author of the cookbook of the same name, as well as of the bestselling French Taste, which won the Cuisine Canada gold medal and was one of Amazon.ca...
Laura Calder is at the Cooks 'n' Books Stage at 12:00 PM
Sam Cheuk holds an MFA from New York University. He divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver, and Hong Kong. -- Adopt this Author
Sam Cheuk is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 12:15 PM
Anita Clarke is the founder and EIC of the popular Toronto fashion blog, I Want - I Got. She's been called one of Toronto's most stylish people in 2011, a Toronto Fashion Hero by Now Magazine, Woman of the Year by She Takes on the World and one of the Worthy 30 by Shinan Govani. She has spoken on the topics of fashion,...
Anita Clarke is at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 5:15 PM
Martin Regg Cohn writes the Ontario politics column for the Toronto Star. A foreign correspondent for 11 years, he was chief of the Middle East and Asia bureaus, then foreign editor. He previously covered national politics from Ottawa. His provincial affairs column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Martin Regg Cohn is at the Toronto Star Tent at 1:00 PM
Susan G. Cole is the Entertainment and Books Editor at NOW Magazine, Canada's premiere news and entertainment weekly.
Susan G. Cole - Host is at the Great Books Marquee at 2:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Karen Connelly won the Governor General’s Award for her l992 national best seller, 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, which was praised in the New York Times Review of Books. In...
Karen Connelly is at the Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 12:00 PM
Sandro Contenta has been a Star staff reporter since 1981. In 1998, he was appointed its Middle East bureau chief, covered the second Palestinian intifada and reported regularly from Iran, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. In 2002, Contenta was appointed the paper’s London-based, European bureau chief...
Sandro Contenta is at the Toronto Star Tent at 2:00 PM
Lesley Anne Cowan was born in Toronto and studied English and education at McGill University in Montreal. She works as a secondary school teacher of troubled youth in Toronto. Her first novel, As She Grows, was shortlisted for the Chapters/Robertson Davies First Novel Prize.Something Wicked is the second book...
Lesley Anne Cowan is at the This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage at 3:30 PM
Nettie Cronish has worked as a cooking instructor, recipe developer, and owner of a vegetarian frozen food company. She is the author of Nettie’s Vegetarian Kitchen, New Vegetarian Basics and The Idiot’s Guide to Being Vegetarian in Canada.
Pat Crocker is the bestselling and...
Nettie Cronish and Pat Crocker is at the Cooks 'n' Books Stage at 5:00 PM
Eytan Crouton's first disciple has been writing and performing Hip Hop since July 2009. He was recently a finalist at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam in Vancouver representing Toronto Poetry Slam (TPS). He has also just become the 2011 Toronto Poetry Slam Grand Champion and is a current member of the 2011-2012 TPS team...
Eytan Crouton is at the This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage at 11:45 AM
Nick Crowe was born in Montreal and raised in Kingston, Ontario. He worked as a paperboy, dishwasher, psychiatric hospital janitor, laundry worker and guitar player before starting a career in television. He has been writing fiction since childhood but A Cold Night for Alligators is his first novel. Nick lives in...
Nick Crowe is at the Great Books Marquee at 4:30 PM
