Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 23, 2012
Click the alphabet on the left to view author bios by last name.
Over the years, The Word On The Street Vancouver has played host to all manner of authors. We are proud to welcome more than 100 authors, illustrators and panelists for the 2011 festival, including:
Charlotte Gill | Evelyn Lau
Georgia Nicols | Gurjinder Basran
John Furlong | John Vaillant
Richard Wagamese | Timothy Taylor
Don Calame is a screenwriter whose film projects include Employee of the Month and Hounded. Beat the Band serves up riffs on hot girls, health class, and social hell in the sequel to Swim the Fly.
Don Calame is at the Authors Tent at 1:40
Norma Charles is the author of many books for children including the Moonbeam Bronze Medal Award-winner,The Girl in the Backseat.
Norma Charles is at the Canada Writes Tent at 3:20
Kevin Chong was born in Hong Kong in 1975. He is the author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation, and a forthcoming memoir on horseracing. Beauty Plus Pity is his first novel in ten years.
Kevin Chong is at the Canada Writes at 11:00
Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Performance Bond, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and 49th Parallel Psalm. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, an organization...
Wayde Compton is at the Authors Tent at 4:10
