Past Festival Line-Ups

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2023

Adriana Barton
J. Edward Chamberlin
Janie Chang
Corinna Chong
Jen Currin
JD Derbyshire
Ian Ferguson
Will Ferguson
Tamar Glouberman
Jessica Johns
Theresa Kishkan

Jack Knox
Tom and Kalissa Landa
Amanda Lewis
Carrie Mac
Bob McDonald
Tara McGuire
Steve Mitchell
Sheila Murray
Cecily Nicholson
Simon Paradis
Dionne Paul

Hilary Peach
Tom Rachman
Danny Ramadan
Andrea Routley
Ellen Schwartz
Angela Sterritt
Laura Trethewey
John Vaillant
Jody Wilson-Raybould
Andrea Woo

2022

Kamal Al-Solaylee
S. Bear Bergman
Columpa Bobb
Cedar Bowers
Tania Carter
Ivan Coyote
Charmaine de Silva
Farzana Doctor

Norma Dunning
Francesca Ekwuyasi
The Fugitives
Kathryn Gretsinger
Shaena Lambert
Marsha Lederman
Andre Picard
Jael Richardson

Shelagh Rogers
Harley Rustad
Jen Sookfong Lee
Isabella Wang
Betsy Warland
Jesse Wente
Joshua Whitehead
Sam Wiebe

2021

Billy-Ray Belcourt
Michael Christie
Jillian Christmas
Amber Dawn
Claire Finlayson
Michelle Good
Keely Halward

Clay Hepburn
Aislinn Hunter
Jomegasonic
Daniel Heath Justice
Seth Klein
Sarah Leavitt

Lucia Misch
Sarah Noni
Bill Richardson
Daniel Wesley
Iona Whishaw
Howard White

2019

Randy Boyagoda
Alicia Elliott
Terry Fallis
Chantal Gibson
Rachel Giese
Ian Hampton
Elizabeth Hay
Nazanine Hozar
Ann Hui

Michael C. Klein
Seth Klein
Chelene Knight
Keith Maillard
Lee Maracle
Darrel J McLeod
Barbara Nickel
Katherine Penfold Trio
Adam Pottle

Eden Robinson
Peter Robinson
Andreas Schroeder
Yasuko Thanh
Rhea Tregebov
Richard Van Camp
Ian Williams
Lindsay Wong

2018

Maleea Acker
Carleigh Baker
Yvonne Blomer
Deborah Campbell
Tenille Campbell
David Chariandy
Carys Cragg
Charles Demers
Kim Fu

Sheena Kamal
Linden MacIntyre
John MacLachlan Gray
Clem Martini
Olivier Martini
Carol Off
Philip Kevin Paul
Michael Redhill
Jennifer Robson

Renee Saklikar
Edward Struzik
Kim Thúy
Katherena Vermette
Aaron Williams
Tom Wilson
Mark Winston
Ausma Zehanat Khan

2017

Kamal Al-Solaylee
Gurjinder Basran
Pat Carney
Janie Chang
Eva Crocker
Geoff Dembicki
Joseph Denham
Charlotte Gray

Ian Hamilton
Steven Heighton
Anosh Irani
Joy Kogawa
Mark Leiren-Young
Sandra Martin
Amber McMillan
Robert Moor

Donna Morrissey
Iain Reed
David A. Robertson
Rachel Rose
Bev Sellars
Shari Ulrich
Zoe Whittall
Clea Young

2016

Jordan Abel
Karim Alrawi
George Elliott Clarke
Lorna Crozier
Ruth Daniell
Carol Daniels
Charles Demers
Marina Endicott
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Rebecca Hendry

Lawrence Hill
Guy Gavriel Kay
Theresa Kishkan
Ian McAllister
Zarqa Nawaz
Ostwelve
Maureen Palmer
Michael Pond
Bill Richardson

Janet Rogers
Anakana Schofield
Kinnie Starr
Madeleine Thien
Ian Weir
Mark Winston
Caroline Woodward
Alissa York
Janine Alyson Young

2015

Caroline Adderson
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Cathie Borrie
Kevin Chong
Michael Christie
Nick Cutter/Craig Davidson
Mark Forsyth
Barbara Fradkin
Karyn L. Freedman
Helen Humphreys
Doretta Lau
Rosella Leslie
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Billeh Nickerson
Alison Pick
Waubgeshig Rice
Aaron Shepard
Carrie Snyder
Kara Stanley with The Precious Littles
Jane Urquhart
Nikki van Schyndel
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Ian Weir
Sheri-D Wilson
Michael Winter

2014

Angie Abdou
Bob Bossin
Claire Cameron
Jillian Christmas
Terry Fallis
Charles Foran
Steven Galloway
Bill Gaston
Linda Holeman
Aislinn Hunter
Zaccheus Jackson
Grant Lawrence
Brendan McLeod
Heather O’Neill
Kathryn Para
Roberta Rich
Andrea Routley
Audrey Thomas
Kim Thuy
Miriam Toews
Chris Turner
Richard Wagamese
Alison Wearing
Dianne Whelan

2013

Sally Armstrong
Théodora Armstrong
Linwood Barclay
Rosemary Bates
Jackson Davies
David Bergen
Kate Braid
Esi Edugyan
David Essig
C.C. Humphreys
Vincent Lam
Alistair MacLeod
Lee Maracle
Donna Morrissey
Susan Musgrave
Rikia Saddy
Jeffrey Simpson
Bradley Somer
Linda Spalding
Susan Swan
Patrick Taylor
Susan Telfer
Bill Terry
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Sue Wheeler

2012

Joel Bakan
Gail Bowen
Wayson Choy
Kim Clark
Lorna Crozier
Michael Crummey
Maureen Foss
Camilla Gibb
Douglas Gibson
Charlotte Gill
Rebecca Jenkins
Betty Keller
Patrick Lane
JJ Lee
Rosella Leslie
Robyn Michele Levy
Linden MacIntyre
Ami McKay
Anne Michaels
Eric Paetkau
Noah Richler
Peter Robinson
Gwendolyn Southin
Jane Urquhart
Richard Wagamese
Howard White

2011

Gurjinder Basran
Giles Blunt
Chris Bose
Ivan Coyote
Terry Fallis
Judy Fong Bates
Charles Foran
Zsuzsi Gartner
Lorna Goodison
Garry Gottfriedson
Wayne Grady
Sandra Gulland
Veda Hille
Susan Juby
Grant Lawrence
Alexander MacLeod
Janet Romain
Anna Porter
Sarah Selecky
Johanna Skibsrud
Timothy Taylor
Jerry Thompson
Margaret Trudeau
Sylvia Tyson
John Vaillant
Robert J. Wiersema

2010

Elizabeth Bachinsky
Craig Boyko
Brian Brett
Ian Brown
Bonnie Burnard
Senator Larry Campbell
Denise Chong
Karen Connelly
Joe Denham
Lawrence Hill
Jack Hodgins
Ryan Knighton
Annabel Lyon
Shani Mootoo
Tony Parsons
Louise Penny
Nino Ricci
Sarah Roberts
Adam Lewis Schroeder
Gregory Scofield
Gwendolyn Southin
Jowi Taylor
Joan Thomas
Jack Whyte

2009

Gil Adamson
Keith Billington
Joseph Boyden
Daphne Bramham
Wayson Choy
Andrew Davidson
Anthony De Sa
Kim Echlin
Marina Endicott
M.A.C. Farrant
Steven Galloway
Katherine Gordon
Rebecca Hendry
Lily Hoy Price
June Hutton
Naomi Klein
Shane Koyczan
Andrew Nikiforuk
Edeet Ravel
Andreas Schroeder
Michael Slade
Richard Wagamese
Russell Wangersky

2008

Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Dave Bidini
David Chariandy
William Deverell
Will Ferguson
Kenji Hodgson
James Nevison
Lorna Goodison
Elizabeth Hay
Drew Hayden Taylor
Chantal Hébert
Shane Koyczan
Mike McCardell
John MacLachlan Gray
Bernice Morgan
Claire Mulligan
Mary Novik
Michael Ondaatje
Tom Phillips
Paul Quarrington
John Schreiner
Rex Weyler
Zoe Whittall
Chris Wood

2007

Caroline Adderson
John Bishop
Wayson Choy
Andrew Cohen
Afua Cooper
Michael Crummey
Lorne Elliott
Bill Gaston
Camilla Gibb
Blanche Howard
Shaena Lambert
David Lee
Margaret MacMillan
J.B. MacKinnon
John Pass
Brian Payton
Michael Poole
Peter Robinson
Jen Sookfong Lee
Richard Van Camp
Carol Windley

2006

Double Exposure
Joan Barfoot
Maude Barlow
Kim Bolan
Joseph Boyden
Brian Brett
Ivan E. Coyote
George Fetherling
Joy Fielding
Sheree Fitch
James Keelaghan
J.B. MacKinnon
Donna Morrissey
Alayna Munce
Edeet Ravel
Eden Robinson
Jim Taylor
Miriam Toews
Jane Urquhart
John Vaillant
Jack Whyte

2005

Morris Panych
Des Kennedy
Shauna Singh Baldwin
Jean Barman
Helen Humphreys
Alan Twigg
Drew Hayden Taylor
David Gilmour
Catherine Gildiner
Deborah Ellis
Anosh Irani
Hadani Ditmars
Erika Ritter
John Gould
Greg Potter
Red Robinson
Deborah Grey
Pauline Holdstock
Ted Chamberlin
M.G. Vassanji
Patrick Lane
Karen Barnaby
Todd Butler

2004

Paul Grant
Peter Steele
Robert J. Sawyer
Evelyn Lau
Karen X. Tulchinsky
Arthur Black
Robert Davidson
Peter Robinson
Jonathan Bennett
Elizabeth Hay
George Elliott Clarke
Nick Bantock
Dr. Art Hister
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Allan Fotheringham
Andrew Scott
Rob Ferguson
Ann-Marie MacDonald
John MacLachlan Gray
Mona Brun
Eve Johnson
Connie Kaldor

2003

Doris Anderson
Anita Rau Badami
Dennis Bock
David Bouchard
Austin Clarke
Chris Czajkowski
William Deverell
Marq de Villiers
Ian Ferguson
Will Ferguson
Bill Gaston
Genni Gunn
Aislinn Hunter
Wayne Johnston
Mike McCardell
Yann Martel
Almeda Glenn Miller
Lisa Moore
Mother of Pearl
Andrew Nikiforuk
P.K. Page
Gloria Sawai

2002

The Arrogant Worms
Gail Bowen
Maria Coffey & Dag Goering
Lorna Crozier
Zsuzsi Gartner
Barbara Gowdy
Charlotte Gray
Wayne Johnston
Theresa Kishkan
Michael Kusugak
Patrick Lane
Bob McDonald
Rex Murphy
Barbara Nichol
P.K. Page
John Pass
Bill Richardson
Shelagh Rogers
Timothy Taylor
Madeleine Thien
Jane Urquhart
David Watmough
Richard B. Wright
Ronald Wright

2001

Marilyn Bowering
Pat Carney
Lynn Coady
Roy Forbes
Mark Forsythe
Daniel Francis
Catherine Gildiner
Alison Gordon
Sparkle Hayter
Naomi Klein
Myrna Kostash
Dennis Lee
Annabel Lyon
Rita Moir
Donna Morrissey
David Adams Richards
Leon Rooke
Pete Sarsfield
Gwendolyn Southin
Mark Starowicz
Fred Stenson
Howard White
Jack Whyte

2000

Bob Bossin
Gail Bowen
Robert Bringhurst
Bonnie Burnard
Sharon Butala
Stevie Cameron
Denise Chong
Tomson Highway
Margaret Horsfield
Karen Irving
Janet Lunn
Keith Maillard
Michael Ondaatje
Paul Quarrington
John Ralston Saul
Shelagh Rogers
Robert J. Sawyer
Diane Schoemperlen
Joan Skogan
Linda Spalding
Rosemary Sullivan
Audrey Thomas
Paddy Wales
Mark Winston

1999

Jeffrey Alford
Margaret Atwood
Jack Batten
Arthur Black
Margo Button
Karen Connelly
Chris Czajkowski
Erika de Vasconcelos
Bruce Dowbiggin
Naomi Duguid
Mary Lou Fallis
Sheree Fitch
Jack Granatstein
Marjorie Harris
Elizabeth Hay
Barbara Hodgson
Jay Ingram
Thomas King
Shani Mootoo
Anne Petrie
Nino Ricci
Bill Richardson
Eden Robinson
Andreas Schroeder
Shyam Selvadurai

1998

David Bergen
Sandra Birdsell
Elspeth Bradbury
June Callwood
Richard & Sydney Cannings
Ric Careless
Elly Danica
Elisabeth Harvor
Tom Henry
Trevor Hooper
Janina Hornosty
Keith Keller
Patrick Lane
Linda McQuaig
Judy Maddocks
Marg Meikle
Daniel David Moses
Knowlton Nash
P.K. Page
Erika Ritter
Shelagh Rogers
Candace Savage
Cordelia Strube
David Suzuki
Linda Svendsen
Jim Taylor
Peter Trower
Shari Ulrich
Rachel Wyatt

1997

Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Anita Rau Badami
Persimmon Blackbridge
George Bowering
John Brady
Wayson Choy
Adrienne Clarkson
Diane Clement
Maria Coffey & Dag Goering
Lorna Crozier
Marilyn Dumont
James Houston
Arthur Kent
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Stuart McLean
Claire Mowat
Ira Nadel
Kit Pearson
Peter Robinson
Spider Robinson
Three Blondes & a Brownie
Rick Scott
Bob Waldon
Tim Ward
Jan Wong

1996

Marisa Alps
Jeannette Armstrong
David Arnason
Justine Brown
Kenneth Cambon
Victor Coleman
M.A.C. Farrant
Brian Fawcett
Maureen Foss
Ellen Frith
Marie-Louise Gay
Terry Glavin
Jurgen Gothe
David Homel
Betty Keller
Larissa Lai
Jacques Lalonde
Chris Levan
Alan Maitland
Sheryl McFarlane
Patrick Moore
Betty Nickerson
Jean Smith & Mecca Normal
Andrew Struthers
L.R. Wright

1995

Joanne Arnott
bill bissett
Ann Cameron
Stevie Cameron
Jacqueline Dumas
John Gray
Joan Haggerty
Beth Hill
Monica Hughes
Michael Kusugak
Joni Mitchell
Mavor Moore
David Neel
Morris Panych
The Slice
David Tarrant
Anne Vipond
Margaret Visser
Jack Webster
Howard White
Jack Whyte

1994

Nuala Beck
Ven Begamudre
George Bowering
Di Brandt
Roch Carrier
Lesley Choyce
Don Dickinson
Joy Fielding
Cynthia Good
Mel Hurtig
Des Kennedy
W.P. “Bill” Kinsella
John Lazarus
Joan Macleod
Catherine McNally
Marg Meikle
Stefani Paine
Bill Richardson
Joe Rosenblatt
Chris Rutkowski
Lois Simmie
Gertrude Story
Ronald Wright
Scott Young

1993

Doris Anderson
Sheila Baxter
David Cruise
Vicki Gabereau
Allison Griffiths
Kristjana Gunnars
Robert Harlow
Pat Kramer
Anne Lindsay
Stuart McLean
Geoff Meggs
Mary Meigs
Roy Miki
Susan Musgrave
Dan Needles
Michael Ondaatje
Mordecai Richler
Darrell Shee
Maggie Siggins
Ann Szumigalski
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Eric Wilson

1992

Trysh Ashby-Rolls
Thomas R. Berger
Pierre Berton
Best of Bridge
Nicola Cavendish
Lorna Crozier
Philip J. Currie
Judy Gill
Brenda Guild Gillespie
Peter Gzowski
Herb Hammond
Patrick Lane
Scott McIntyre
Ken Mitchell
Stan Persky
Andreas Schroeder
Carol Shields
Jeffrey Simpson
Elaine Stevens
Vancouver Industrial Writers Union
Caroline Woodward
Tim Wynne-Jones

1991

Gail Bowen
Donald Gutstein
Eric Malling
Daphne Marlatt
Umberto Menghi
Alexandra Morton
Leslie Hall Pinder
Nino Ricci
Vera Rosenbluth
Holley Rubinsky
Robin Skelton
Jim Taylor
Ben Wicks
Rudy Wiebe
Max Wyman

1990

Marie Annharte Baker
Sandra Birdsell
Arthur Black
Bonnie Burnard
Diane Clement
Lawrence Gough
Joy Kogawa
Robert Kroetsch
Irving Layton
Peter C. Newman
Spider Robinson
Carole Rubin
Paul St. Pierre
Joe Swan
David Tarrant
Ronald Wright

1989

Pierre Berton
June Callwood
Linda Cullen
Neil Dawe
Karen Dawe
William Deverell
Joe Garner
Don Hunter
Charles Lynch
Ken Mitchell
Jean Pare
John Pass
Bob Robertson
Candace Savage
Doris Shadbolt
Sharon Thesen
Betty Waterton
Howard White

1988

Lynn Bowen
Barry Broadfoot
Morris Gibson
Christie Harris
Ann Ireland
W.P. Kinsella
Knowlton Nash
P.K. Page
Nicole Parton
Kit Pearson
Wyckham Porteous
David Rousseau
Iris Skeoch
David Suzuki
Fred Wah

1987

Donald F. Bailey
Christian Bruyere
Tom Cone
David Cruise
Sarah Ellis
Allan Fotheringham
Nan Gregory
Allison Griffiths
Beth Hill
Eileen Kernaghan
George Payerle
Melanie Ray
George Ryga
L.R. Wright

1986

Edna Alford
John Broadhead
Alec Burden
Helen Chestnut
Marion Crook
John Edwards
Dennis Foon
John Gray
Paulette Jiles
John Juliani
W.O. Mitchell
Andrew Scott
Hilary Stewart

1985

James Barber
Joan Clark
Sylvia Crooks
Peter Gzowski
Kim La Fave
Al Purdy
Leon Rooke
John Schreiner
Jim Taylor
Jan Truss
Don S. Williams

1984

Earle Birney
Stanley Burke
Sharon Butala
Brian Fawcett
Maryann Gibson
Edith Iglauer
Eileen Kernaghan
Susan Mendelson
David J. Mitchell
Robert D. Turner
William Valgardson
Eleanor Wachtel

1983

Leonard Angel
Ian Bateson
Pamela Hawthorne
Jack Hodgins
Crawford Killian
Dorothy Livesay
Florence McNeil
Heather Siska