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.
Dorothy Ellen Palmer was conceived in Hurricane Hazel, adopted at three, and taught high school for 23 years. When Fenelon Falls (Coach House Press, 2010) set in cottage country in the summer of 1969 is her first novel. She is currently at work on Kerfuffle, the story of a Toronto Improv troupe making sense...
Dorothy Ellen Palmer is at the Voices 106.5FM Wordshop Marquee at 11:00 AM
Neil Pasricha is the author of The Book of Awesome which was inspired by his wildly popular blog 1000awesomethings.com. The Book of Awesomebecame the runaway bestseller of last year and spent over 30 weeks on...
Neil Pasricha is at the Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 4:30 PM
Shane Peacock was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and grew up in Kapuskasing. A biographer, journalist, and screenwriter, he is also the author of several novels and plays. He has received many honors for his writing, including the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award for Eye of the Crow and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for...
Shane Peacock is at the This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage and Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 12:00 PM and 2:15 PM
David Penhale is a published poet. He spent several years in Dubai, and honed his first novel, Passing Through, at writing workshops at the University of Iowa. Penhale now lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing and is working on a second novel.
David Penhale is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM
Anne Perdue graduated with honours from the creative writing program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where she was awarded the 2009 Marina Nemat Excellence in Creative Writing Award. Her story “The Escapists”was a winner in the Random House Student Competition and has been published in...
Anne Perdue is at the Great Books Marquee at 4:30 PM
Geoff Pevere has been writing about movies, books and popular culture for the Toronto Star since 1998. He is the co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: a Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey and Toronto on Film. His forthcoming book on the movie Goin' Down the Road will be published...
Geoff Pevere - Host is at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Lianne Phillipson-Webb, founder of Sprout Right Inc., is a Registered Nutrition Consultant Practitioner (RNCP), an expert in family nutrition, and a contributor to Today's Parent magazine. She and her family live in Toronto. www.sproutright.com
Lianne Phillipson-Webb is at the Healthy Living Stage at 11:30 AM
Jayme Poisson has been a Star reporter since 2010. Covering Egypt's revolution in February was her first foreign assignment. She writes regularly for the paper's city section and has also reported for the Star from Kenya. She has a degree in political science from McGill University and is working...
Jayme Poisson is at the Toronto Star Tent at 2:00 PM
