Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Julie Rak, sakâw laboucan, Ting Pimentel-Elger, Gavin Bradley, Dill Prusko, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, The Carrot, Ruthvik Chekka, Omar Ramadan, Jayme Poitras, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Sue Sinclair, Matthew James Weigel, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Matthew Stepanic, Emma Elder, Bolo Tie Collective, Jannie Edwards, Thea Bowering, rob mclennan, Katie Bickell, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, Robin Hunter, RC Weslowski, Jessica Coles, Sage Giroux, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Bänoo Zan, Bryn Lipinski, Lauren Seal, Spirit Tongues, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Grayson Thate, Poets for Ukraine, Catherine Owen, Marilyn Dumont, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Paul Pearson, Norma Dunning, Sublime Intervention Collective, Theresa Kishkan, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Timiro Mohamed, Jason Purcell, Jillian Christmas, Rayanne Haines, Nisha Patel, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
David A. Robertson, Jade Roberts, Michelle Parise, Anna Marie Sewell, Lorna Crozier, Tamara (Baldhead) Pearl, Daniel Poitras, Desmond Cole, Wendy McGrath, Torbjørn Ekelund, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Galen Scorer, Randy Lundy, Matthew Stepanic, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Cobra Collins, Paige Cardinal, Catherine Owen, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, Peter Midgley, Omar Farah, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Sharon McCartney, Shauntay Grant, Grayson Thate, Angela Kublik, Omar Farah, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Sofia Parrila, Josée Thibeault, Jocelyne Verret, Lisa Martin, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Nora Gould, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Micheline Maylor, Tim Bowling, Nanise, Kathy Fisher, Liam Coady, Pearl Lorentzen, Lady Vanessa, Douglas Barbour, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
D, Katherine Abbass, Raphaël Freynet, Carolyn Gingrich, Tim Mikula, Walter Hildebrandt, Catherine Kidd, Kelly Shepherd, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Laurie MacFayden, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Giselle Lemire, Ariane Mahrÿke, Laurie MacFayden, Gary Garrison, Mandie Lopatka, Alyson Dicey, Taqralik Partridge, Judy Tate Barlow, Nasra Adem, Fran Figge, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Kasia Gawlak, Rhea Tregebov, Skye Hyndman, Sheri Somerville, Steven Heighton, Joy Harjo, Capital City Burlesque, Jannie Edwards, Randy Kohan, Jeanette Lynes, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Glenn Robson, Omar Mouallem, Giselle Lemire, Kimmy Beach, Eric Folsom, Thea Bowering, Christine S. Frederick, Tanya Davis, Francisco A. Fwallah, Yaa Serwaa Somuah, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Nora Gould, Alice Major, Gisèle Villeneuve, Josée Thibeault, Douglas Barbour, Heather Simeney MacLeod, Gerry Morita, Jenna Butler, Nancy Mackenzie, Jonathan Hart, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Valerie Mason-John, A.F. Moritz, Tololwa Mollel, Mark Edwards, Karen Solie, Sandi Somers, Tim Bowling, Theresa Moritz, David Seymour, Paul Dutton, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Jolanta Lapiak, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Kwazii (Dakwon), Lisa Martin, Omar Mouallem, George Bowering, Politic Live, Tracy Hamon, Mitch Holtby, Helene Garrett, and more.
All from 2010