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!

 

 

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Bettina Schormann

Bettina Schormann has won numerous awards including the Lindt Chocolate Competition and the OHI Professional Pastry Chef Award. She has studied the pastry arts in Paris, New York and Toronto. She is the pastry chef at the Ancaster Old Mill.

Emily Schultz

Emily Schultz is the author of the highly acclaimed novel Joyland and co-creator of Joyland.ca, selected by CBC as part of the Top 100 of 2008.

Joanne Schwartz

Joanne Schwartz is a children’s librarian with the Toronto Public Library and a reviewer for the Canadian Children’s Book News. Joanne enjoys art history, dancing, mountain walking, and reading picture books.

Derek Scott

Derek Scott teaches at the Department of Thanatology at the University of Western Ontario and had one child and three dogs.

 

Graham F Scott

Graham F. Scott edits This Magazine. He has formerly worked as an associate editor at Canadian Business and as assistant editor of Precedent magazine, and his writing has appeared in Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, and U of T Magazine.

Shyam Selvaduri

Shyam Selvadurai is the author of three novels, all of which have been published to wide acclaim. His latest novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award.

Leslie Shimotakahara

Leslie Shimotakahara recently moved back to Toronto to return to her first love, creative writing. She works as a scope writer for Waterfront Toronto.

Bill Slavin

Bill Slavin has illustrated over sixty books for children, including Stanley’s Party, Stanley’s Wild Ride, Stanley at Sea, Transformed and The Farm Team. He lives in Millbrook, Ontario, with his wife, their cat, two rabbits, five squirrels and a family of cardinals.

Mairlyn Smith

Mairlyn Smith is the only professional home economist in Canada that is also an alumnus of the Second City Comedy Troupe, making her a popular TV and media food personality. A freelance writer with articles appearing in major magazines in Canada, Mairlyn is a regular contributor to alive, writes a weekly blog @ Yahoo! Canada and has appeared on every breakfast TV show in Canada.

Rick Smith

As Executive Director of Environmental Defence, Rick Smith is one of Canada’s leading environmentalists.

Leeya Solomon

Leeya Solomon has grown up in the Eritrean and Ethiopian cultures where storytelling was part and parcel of life.  She is a storyteller with the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program. 

Kean Soo

Born in England and raised in Hong Kong, Kean Soo is a self-taught cartoonist and formally trained electrical engineer currently residing in Toronto.

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is the current General Manager of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her latest play, Gas Girls, can be seen this fall at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace under the direction of Philip Adams.

John Stephenson

John Stephenson is a senior vice-president and portfolio manager with First Asset Investment Management Inc., a Toronto-based mutual fund company, where he helps manage $1.5 billion in investments. John is the founder of www.reportonmoney.com and editor of Money Focus.

Patricia Storms

Patricia Storms is a Toronto-based freelance cartoonist who delights readers of all ages. Her work appears in the National Post and the pages of chickaDEE Magazine frequently.

Cordelia Strube

Born and raised in Montreal, Cordelia Strube trained as an actress, moving to Toronto in the ’80s. She has been shortlisted for the Prix Italia, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the ReLit, and the Governor General’s Award. Her seven previous novels include Milton’s Elements, Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant and Planet Reese.