Sunday September 22, 2013 at Queen's Park Circle, 11am - 6pm
Featured Authors
Jack David, Publisher, of ECW Press, has spent decades in the literary trenches, publishing academic articles about Canadian Writing and then opening up his press, ECW, to publish books ranging from wrestling guides to novels. He is a great friend of students, and has always been willing to listen to a pitch or consider any literary...
Jack David is at the Scribendi.com Wordshop Marquee at 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Graphic designer and children's illustrator Claudia Dávila was born in Chile and now makes her home in Toronto. She was formerly the art director of Chirp and Chickadee magazines.
Claudia Dávila is at the Children's Reading Tent at 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
David Day’s landmark book on animal extinction, The Doomsday Book of Animals, was selected in 1981 as the “Book of the Year” by Time Magazine. Day subsequently published four books emanating from his environmental concerns including The Encyclopedia of Vanished Species (1989) and Noah’s...
David Day is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh in 1945, and grew up there, as well as in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970. He is the author of twenty literary titles, and a translator. A cycle of his poems was the focus of a one-hour TV special, Under the Watchful Eye. In addition to his...
James Deahl is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Suzanne Desrochers is the author of the highly praised Bride of New France. She has completed a thesis at King’s College, which compares the migration of French and British women to North America in the early modern period. Having travelled extensively throughout Asia and lived in Paris and Tokyo, her travel writings have...
Suzanne Desrochers is at the The Penguin Pavilion at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. Her second book, Six Metres of Pavement, was named one of Now Magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2011. It also won the Lambda Literary and Rainbow Awards (2012). Farzana...
Farzana Doctor is at the Toronto Book Awards Tent at 12:30 AM - 1:00 PM and at 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Robyn Doolittle covers city hall for the Toronto Star. She made the jump from the crime beat during the 2010 municipal election. You can follow her on twitter at: @robyndoolittle.
Robyn Doolittle is at the Toronto Star Tent at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Transplanted from Canada’s west coast to Ottawa, Elizabeth regularly doodles on shopping lists, the back of phone bills, and on the margins of Very Important Documents such as her children’s report cards. When she is not doodling, she designs education programs for galleries and museums, where she encourages children to play with...
Elizabeth Todd Doyle is at the Children's Reading Tent at 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Hadley Dyer is the executive editor of children's books at HarperCollins Canada and an author for children and teens. She is also a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail and an instructor in the publishing program at Ryerson University.
Hadley Dyer is at the Scribendi.com Wordshop Marquee at 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
