Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Jayden Tobert, Su Croll, Anna Marie Sewell, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Poitras, Cy Strom, Chanel Klein, Ting Pimentel-Elger, Patti Sinclair, Bolo Tie Collective, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Marilyn Dumont, Anna Marie Sewell, Bolo Tie Collective, E.D. Blodgett, Susan McCaslin, Jannie Edwards, Patrick Grace, Katie Bickell, Sharon Thesen, Olivia Spring, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Kim Mannix, Bryn Lipinski, Ty Bruce, Bänoo Zan, Meghan Eaker, Ryan James Summers (Some-Sum), Carley Lizotte, Sublime Intervention Collective, Omar Ramadan, Emma Elder, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Alexis Kienlen, Catherine Owen, Poets for Ukraine, Matthew James Weigel, Marco Melfi, Michelle Poirier Brown, Katherine Gibson, Marilyn Dumont, Grayson Thate, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Nisha Patel, Timiro Mohamed, Rayanne Haines, Jillian Christmas, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Jason Purcell, and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Vivek Shraya, Anna Marie Sewell, Harnarayan Singh, Peter Midgley, Isael Huard, Amina Mohamed, Shimelis Gebremichael, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Jordan Abel, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
James Collier, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Anna Marie Sewell, Astrid Blodgett, Natalie Wee, Matthew Stepanic, Ellen Kartz, Omar Farah, Rita Espeschit, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Liam Coady, Reinekke Lengelle, Sharon McCartney, Rayanne Haines, Medgine Mathurin, Patrick Friesen, Brandon Wint, Sarah-Jean Krahn, Nisha Patel, Evelyne Gagnon, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Tyler Perry, Marina Reid Hale, Nanise, Bert Almon, Nasra Adem, Liam Coady, Medgine Mathurin, Douglas Barbour, Liz Howard, Gregory Scofield, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Alison Grant-Préville, Alice Major, Anna Marie Sewell, Claire Kelly, Peter Midgley, Dennis Cooley, Walter Hildebrandt, Benjamin Hertwig, Kelly Shepherd, Isaac Bond, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Brian Chan, Megan Dart, Sue Goyette, Shirley Serviss, Amy Willans, John Leppard, Kathryn Mockler, Kasia Gawlak, Kathy Figueroa, Jason Lee Norman, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Skye Hyndman, E.D. Blodgett, Sheri Somerville, Christine S. Frederick, Sandy Pool, Rhea Tregebov, Paul Zits, Iman Mersal, Medgine Mathurin, Randy Kohan, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
CR Avery, pj johnson, Patricia Darbasie, Bruce Meyer, Kasia Gawlak, Jannie Edwards, Anna Marie Sewell, Christine S. Frederick, Florent J. Feulefack, Jérôme Melançon, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Jem Rolls, Josée Thibeault, Nancy Mackenzie, Nancy Mattson, Jannie Edwards, Dymphny Dronyk, Gerry Morita, Jeff Carpenter, Tom Radford, Dionne Brand, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Jeff Carpenter, Goran Simic, Douglas Barbour, David Seymour, Tololwa Mollel, Peter Midgley, Sheri-D Wilson, Tanya Davis, Kath MacLean, Jannie Edwards, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Don McKay, Yukari Meldrum, Laurie MacFayden, Kwazii (Dakwon), Ian Ferrier, George Bowering, Tracy Hamon, Jolanta Lapiak, Nancy Mackenzie, Mitch Holtby, and more.
All from 2010