Nina Lassam works at Wattpad, also known as "the YouTube for eBooks" where she collaborates with aspiring and established authors to promote their work and increase their online fan base. See her on the Digital Drive stage at 4:00 with Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Julie Wilson and Anita Windisman.

In Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, Jeff Latosik considers states of durability and longevity in an age of ephemeral mores and instant gratification. Latosik's award-winning poems have appeared in magazines and journals across the country. Join him in The Great Books Marquee at 4:45 with Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Vivek Shraya.

Allen Lau is a serial entrepreneur with 18 years of leadership roles in digital media, mobile and software industry. Allen is currently the CEO of Wattpad, the world's most popular ebook community. See him on the Digital Drive stage with Ashleigh Gardner, Cynthia Good, Natascha Helbig and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Hilary Leung is a graphic designer and illustrator who has been published internationally. Join him and author David Bruins as they read from both The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear and Ninja Cowboy Bear Presents the Way of the Ninja and lead the audience in a variety of interactive games in the Children’s Activity Tent at 12:15.

Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a Hamilton area writer and bookseller who engages in various social media platforms as both a bookseller and a writer. His latest book, CAMPUS CHILLS was the result of a three campus collaborative effort to pay professional rates to writers from across Canada to write original fiction specifically for an Espresso Book Machine anthology printed at McMaster, Waterloo and University of Alberta. See him speak on the Digital Drive stage at 4:00 with Nina Lassam, Julie Wilson and Anita Windisman.

On the day of a lunar eclipse, a Canadian physicist named Louis Slotin was responsible for a phenomenon scientists call a “bloom.” Michael Lista, a wildly engaging new voice in poetry, re-imagines this fateful day in a long poem that draws upon the still-mysterious events of May 21, 1946. See him in The Great Books Marquee at 12:00 with Mark Sedore and Iain Reid.

Vanessa Lu was the Toronto Star’s city hall bureau chief from 2003 until 2010, covering both the Mel Lastman and David Miller administrations as well as two election campaigns. She now coordinates the Star’s Your City, My City project, which is looking at how to build a better city and region. See her in The Toronto Star Tent at 2:00 with Royson James and David Rider.