Authors

 

Since 1990, The Word On The Street has proudly hosted some of the finest talent in Canadian literature. Our 20th festival is shaping up to be one of our best yet. Check out all of the confirmed authors, performers and storytellers on the right hand page!  Stay tuned as further author announcements are made over the next few weeks!

 

 

Please select a letter to view the amazing lineup for 2009!

 

 

John Bemrose

Bonnie Burnard

Kenneth Oppel

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Natale Ghent

Natale Ghent is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books, including No Small Thing which won the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award, was named a Silver Birch Honour Book and was nominated for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award.

Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb’s novels have been published to rave reviews around the world. Her third work, Sweetness in the Belly, won the Trillium Book Award in 2005.

Terry Goldie

Terry Goldie is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literature with particular interest in gay studies and literary theory.

Cynthia Good

Cynthia Good is the former President of Penguin Books and the current Director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College.