Meet the 2026 Writers

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4:30 pm | Sunday, August 16

Monique Gray Smith

Bestselling Cree-Scottish author Monique Gray Smith returns with Sharing the Light, a quietly profound collection of stories, vignettes and reflections that invites readers to cultivate gratitude, love, joy and hope while moving through a world that is both changing and challenging.

Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author of books for children and adults, as well as an accomplished international speaker and consultant. Of Cree and Scottish descent, she has been sober and on her healing journey for more than thirty-four years. Her debut novel, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature. Monique Gray Smith and her family are blessed to live on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ people near Victoria, British Columbia. Her latest book, Sharing the Light, was an instant #1 Canadian bestseller.

https://www.moniquegraysmith.com

Sharing the Light
Ticket sales open 8:30 am PT June 1, 2026
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