Authors

 

Since 1990, The Word On The Street has proudly hosted some of the finest talent in Canadian literature. Our 21st festival is shaping up to be another great one. 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 2010!

 

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Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel

Portrait  of Alissa York

Yann Martel Kenneth Oppel Alissa York

 

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Ashleigh Gardner

Portrait of Ashleigh Gardner

Ashleigh Gardner started her publishing career at Dundurn Press as Manager of Digital Development, helping authors promote and sell their titles on line. She has since joined the exciting world of ebooks with Kobo Inc. as Content Manager, educating authors and publishers on digital best practices, and identifying titles that should be made available in digital form. See her on the Digital Drive stage with Cynthia Good, Natascha Helbig, Allen Lau and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Natale Ghent

Portrait of Natale Ghent

Natale Ghent is the award-winning YA author of No Small Thing, The Book of Living and Dying, and All the Way Home. Her critically acclaimed work has gathered awards and recognition internationally. See her in The Remarkable Reads Tent for youth hour at 12:00.

Catherine Gildiner

Portrait of Catherine Gildiner

Catherine Gildiner has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for many years. Her bestselling memoir Too Close to the Falls was published in Canada, the US and the UK to wide acclaim in 1999. Her second book, Seduction, a novel, was a national bestseller. She lives in Toronto. See her in The Remarkable Reads Tent at 2:20.

Cynthia Good

Portrait Cynthia Good

Cynthia Good is the Director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber and a former President of Penguin Books Canada. See her at The Wordshop Marquee at 11:00, and on the Digital Drive stage with Ashleigh Gardner, Natascha Helbig, Allen Lau and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Katherine Govier

Portrait of Katherine Govier

Katherine Govier’s novel Three Views of Crystal Water was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year in 2005; Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. See her at the Great Books Marquee at 11:00.

James Grainger

Portrait of James Grainger

James Grainger is the author of The Long Slide and a books columnist for Quill & Quire and the Toronto Star. He is also the editor in chief of The Excerpt, the books site of Torontoist.com. He is hosting the Great Books Marquee from 2:15 – 6:00.

Charlotte Gray - Adopt this Author

Portrait  of Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s pre-eminent biographers and has won numerous awards for her writing including, but not limited to, the 2002 UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the prestigious Pierre Berton Award for a body of historical writing and more. She is currently the Chair of Canada’s National History Society.  Her 2010 title Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike is a colourful and entertaining journey into the Yukon Gold rush of 1896. Come see her discuss historical non-fiction writing in the Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 2:00.