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.
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...
Jack David is at the Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 5:00 PM
Gill Deacon is an award-winning broadcaster, bestselling author as well as one of Canada’s best known environmental advocates. Gill hosted CBC television’s flagship daytime talk show, The Gill Deacon Show and before that was host of @discovery.ca for five years on Discovery Channel Canada....
Gill Deacon is at the Healthy Living Stage at 1:30 PM
Brian Deineshas illustrated numerous books for children, including Skysisters (written by Jan Bourdeau Waboose), Dragonfly Kites (written by Thomson Highway), and One Hockey Night (written by David Ward). He has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General’s...
Brian Deines is at the Children's Reading Tent at 3:30 PM
Anthony Del Col is the Co-Creator of the Kill Shakespeare graphic novel series.Hehas worked in the music, film and television industries, produced two independent feature films and most recently assisted with the management of international pop star Nelly Furtado and her world tour.
Anthony Del Col is at the This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage at 2:30 PM
Kristen den Hartog is the author of the novels Water Wings, The Perpetual Ending, and Origin of Haloes, as well as The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-torn Holland, written with her sister, Tracy Kasaboski. Her latest novel, And Me Among Them, explores the life...
Kristen den Hartog is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 4:30 PM
Claudia Dey is a novelist, playwright and columnist. She writes the weekly Coupling column for The Globe and Mail. She also wrote The Globe and Mail’s Group Therapy column and Toro magazine’s sex column under the pseudonym, Bebe O’Shea. Her plays have been produced internationally and include...
Claudia Dey is at the Healthy Living Stage at 5:00 PM
Appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1995, Terence Dickinson is the author of 14 astronomy books that have sold more than two million copies worldwide. He is a former staff astronomer at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto and has been a regular guest expert on CBC Radio and the Canadian Discovery Channel for many...
Terence Dickinson is at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 3:15 PM
Sean Dixon is a playwright, novelist and actor. His plays have been produced in Canada, the U.S., Australia and the U.K., and three have been collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM. Sean’s first novel was The Girls Who Saw Everything (The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal in the U.S. and...
Sean Dixon is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM
Farzana Doctor's first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and was nominated for Masala!Mehndi!Masti! People's Choice Award. In June 2011, Doctor received the Dayne Ogilvie Grant for emerging gay or lesbian writers. She has also written on social work and diversity-related topics, and in her...
Farzana Doctor is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM
Elizabeth J. Duncan’s first work of fiction, the award winning The Cold Light of Mourning, was nominated for both an Agatha Award (USA) and Arthur Ellis Award (Canada). Her second novel, A Brush with Death, was published in July, 2010. Elizabeth lives in Toronto with her dog, Dolly, and spends several...
Elizabeth J. Duncan is at the Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 1:00 PM
Annika Dunklee was born in Uppsala, Sweden, to a Scottish father and a Swedish mother. She bases a lot of her stories on her own childhood memories. My Name Is Elizabeth! was inspired by anyone who dislikes having his or her name shortened, lengthened, mispronounced or mangled in some way. --...
Annika Dunklee is at the Children's Reading Tent at 3:50 PM
Hadley Dyeris 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 Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 4:00 PM
