2025 Authors & Speakers
03/04/25 @ 7:00pm
Ira Wells is a critic, essayist, and an associate professor at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
2025 Authors & Speakers
2024 Authors & Speakers
- Jay Soule,
- Shane Belcourt,
- Tom Wilson,
- Sara Rubino,
- John Fellner,
- King Cruff,
- Tara Dunphy,
- Saveria,
- Josh Lambier,
- David Huebert,
- Jeff Culbert,
- Etienne Zack,
- Matt James,
- Joe Haidar,
- Rob McCallum,
- Martin Hořák,
- František Bidlo,
- The Pairs,
- Fiker,
- Jordan Macdonald,
- Wolf Saga,
- Morgan James,
- Andrew Kear,
- Angie Quick,
- Jessica Lee McMillan,
- Katie Jeresky,
- Penn Kemp
2023 Authors & Speakers
- Jillian Clair,
- Sammy Orlowski,
- Katie Wilhelm,
- Linda Ludke,
- Christopher Runciman,
- Carol McLeod,
- Roméo Desmarais III,
- Charlie Petch,
- Brooke Lockyer,
- Kate Stanley,
- Patricia Deadman,
- Cory Crossman,
- Tha Koala,
- Sally McKay,
- Ruth Skinner,
- Michael Smith,
- Genevieve Fisher,
- Willem James Cowan,
- Carla Luna White,
- Jeff Thomas,
- Kim Fahner,
- Frances Boyle,
- Mike Stevens,
- Paul Grambo,
- Amanda Grzyb,
- Valerie Mills-Milde,
- Susan Day,
- Jason McLean,
- D.A. Lockhart,
- Terry Fallis,
- Emil Sher,
- Janice Zolf,
- Ramón Pérez,
- Ho Che Anderson,
- Gray Brogden,
- David D. Plain,
- Miranda Green-Barteet,
- Alyssa MacLean,
- Kathryn Mockler,
- Chris Roulston,
- Marlene Creates,
- Don McKay,
- Matthew Dawkins,
- Katy Clark,
- Téa Mutonji,
- Anne Lindsay,
- Jillian Keiley,
- André Picard,
- Larry Towell,
- Emma Donoghue,
- Misha Bower,
- Camille Intson,
- Ivan Kocmarek,
- Aaron Schneider,
- Christopher Keep,
- Patrick Mahon,
- David Barrick,
- Jennifer Wenn,
- Wormwood,
- Veronica Antipolo,
- Emma Donoghue,
- Jane Munro,
- Tom Cull,
- Sheila Heti
2022 Authors & Speakers
- Lana Crossman,
- Robyn Marie Butt,
- Blair Trewartha,
- Jacqueline Demendeev,
- Eddie Lartey,
- Helen Gregory,
- Daniel R. Laxer,
- Emanuel,
- Tom Smart,
- John Borrows,
- Phillis Levin,
- January Rogers,
- Shelly Siskind,
- Patricia Keeney,
- Susan Wismer,
- Robert Priest,
- Karl Jirgens,
- Frances Roberts Reilly,
- Kirsty Robertson,
- Lewis Williams,
- Girma Bitsuamlak,
- Andreas Connel-Gripp,
- Richard-Yves Sitoski ,
- Doug Mitchell,
- Salah Hassan,
- Frank Ridsdale,
- Lorraine Klaasen,
- Rebecca Zandbergen,
- Greg Kopp,
- Sarah MacDougall,
- Anita Kunz,
- Guy Vanderhaeghe,
- Stephen Marche,
- Stuart Ross,
- Robert Earl Stewart,
- Dan and Mary Lou Smoke,
- Cornelia Hoogland,
- Adam Corrigan Holowitz,
- Michael Arntfield,
- Omar El Akkad,
- Laurie D. Graham,
- Wayne Johnston,
- Joshua Schuster,
- Madhur Anand,
- Judith Rodger,
- Vanessa Brown,
- Stan Dragland,
- Ivan Coyote,
- Molly Peacock,
- Terry Griggs,
- Sara Mai Chitty
2021 Authors & Speakers
- Michael Milde,
- Jason Dickson,
- Spy Dénommé-Welch,
- Scott Savitt,
- Yam Lau,
- Wu'er Kaixi,
- Bob Black,
- Richard Fung,
- Shane Book,
- Ronald Epstein,
- Leah Horlick,
- Kevin Heslop,
- Shani Mootoo,
- Tomson Highway,
- Linden MacIntyre,
- Andrew French,
- Akshi Chadha,
- Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff,
- Arzu Yildiz,
- Luis Horacio Nájera,
- Abdulrahman Matar,
- James Cullingham,
- Stephen J. Thorne,
- Andrew Burtch,
- Dr. Michelle Mottola,
- Dr. Robert Hegele,
- Dr. Kristin Clemens,
- Dennis Garnhum,
- Canisia Lubrin,
- Jesse Wente,
- John Little,
- Keith Ross Leckie,
- Dean Jobb,
- Zalika Reid-Benta,
- Eddy Smet,
- Randell Adjei,
- Kydra Ryan,
- Sydney Brooman,
- Jillian Horton,
- Gary Barwin,
- Liz Howard,
- Ian Rae,
- Amy LeBlanc,
- David Ly
2020 Authors & Speakers
- Sharmistha Kar,
- Ashley Snook,
- Mark Kasumovic,
- Lori Blondeau,
- Michelle Wilson,
- Quinn Smallboy,
- Ron Benner,
- Joan E. Greer,
- Veda Hille,
- Richard Van Camp,
- John K. Samson,
- Christine Fellows,
- Erica McKeen,
- Richard Joseph,
- Monica MacDonald,
- Melanie Newton,
- Prachi Srivastava,
- Kate H. Choi,
- Eric Arts,
- Gabrielle Drolet,
- Manina Jones,
- Sarah Legault,
- Lorna Crozier,
- Lisa Helps,
- Steve Holowitz,
- Sonja Gustafson,
- Oliver Whitehead,
- Brandon Wint,
- Candace Brunette-Debassige,
- Seth Klein,
- Amanda Leduc,
- Catherine Bush,
- Karen Houle,
- Jesse Thistle,
- Adam Gopnik,
- Wade Davis,
- Kevin Heslop,
- Ayaz Pirani,
- Vidya Natarajan,
- iskwē,
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,
- Steven Heighton
2019 Authors & Speakers
- Mark Laliberte,
- Peter Hobbs,
- Amelia Does,
- Síle Englert,
- Sarah Gallagher,
- Jeremy Copeland,
- Jonathan De Souza,
- Jacob Shelley,
- Anabel Quan-Haase,
- Madeline Lennon,
- Jamelie Hassan,
- Jenna Rose Sands,
- James K. Bartleman,
- Adam Foulds,
- Steven Price,
- Catriona Sandilands,
- Madeline Bassnett,
- Tom Prime ,
- Brenda Leifso,
- Richard Scrimger,
- Lesley Livingston,
- Ted Staunton,
- Ben O'Neil,
- Kevin Sylvester,
- Diana Beresford-Kroeger,
- Sally Armstrong,
- Lynn Coady,
- Seth,
- Nino Ricci,
- Kathy Page,
- Jordan Morris,
- Drew Hayden Taylor
2018 Authors & Speakers
- Peter Denny,
- Maxwell Lucas,
- Aaron Schneider,
- David White,
- Jesse Jacobs,
- Mary McDonald,
- Joe Ollmann ,
- Jay Stephens ,
- Lisa Moore,
- Bill Bissett,
- Susan Musgrave ,
- Kristen den Hartog,
- Holly Painter,
- Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs,
- Deanna Young,
- Aaron Kreuter,
- Julie Bruck,
- Paige Cooper,
- James Reaney,
- Steven Bruhm,
- Cherie Dimaline,
- Randall Maggs,
- Willow Dawson,
- Stephen Brunt,
- Brian Goldman,
- Russell Smith,
- Lee Maracle ,
- Jane Urquhart
2017 Authors & Speakers
- Najwa Zebian,
- Koine Project,
- David Janzen ,
- Max Lucas,
- Angie Quick,
- Alexander Schmoll,
- Faith Patrick,
- Marta Croll-Baehre,
- Kelly Creighton,
- Erica McKeen,
- Emma Croll-Baehre,
- Deemus ,
- Michael Arntfield,
- Wayne Johnston ,
- Kevin Shaw,
- Ed O'Loughlin,
- Andy Verboom,
- Vanessa Brown & Jason Dickson,
- Erik Mandawe,
- Tanya Talaga,
- John Goldbach,
- Stephen Marche,
- Ian Brown ,
- Tom Smart,
- M.J. Kidnie ,
- Holly Painter,
- Daniel MacIvor,
- Ron Sexsmith,
- Ian Hamilton,
- David Huebert,
- Jeff Barnaby ,
- Claire Cameron,
- Chester Brown,
- Heather O'Neill,
- Douglas Gibson
2016 Authors & Speakers
- David Silverberg,
- Bryce Traister,
- David Huebert,
- John Leonard ,
- Paul Cavanagh,
- James Reaney,
- Joel Faflak,
- Madeline Bassnett,
- Angie Quick,
- Sâkihitowin Awâsis,
- Kevin Heslop,
- Andy Verboom,
- Kevin Shaw,
- Kevin Hardcastle,
- Penn Kemp,
- Monia Mazigh,
- Leanne Simpson,
- Jennifer Robson,
- Holly Painter,
- Mariko Tamaki,
- Teva Harrison ,
- Laurie D. Graham ,
- Douglas Gibson,
- Steve Paikin,
- Brian D. Johnson,
- Margaret Christakos,
- George Elliott Clarke,
- Nadia Bozak,
- Robert Chafe,
- John Beckwith,
- André Alexis