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
Georgia Nicols is a popular international astrologer whose horoscope column appears in numerous daily publications including the National Post, Vancouver Province, Calgary Herald, and Chicago Sun-Times. You and Your Future is her first book.
Georgia Nicols is at the Canada Writes at 1:00
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning Canadian journalist. He was awarded the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for his bestselling book, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent.
Andrew Nikiforuk is at the Canada Writes Tent at 3:00
Renee Norman is an award-winning poet, a writer and a teacher. Her first volume of poetry, True Confessions, was awarded the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry.
Renee Norman is at the Poetry Tent at 3:15
