Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Rapid Fire Theatre, Su Croll, Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Abbigail Ketsa, Nermeen Youssef, New Standards Music, Anindita Mukherjee, Big Al McKee, Theatre Network, Chanel Klein, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Dawn MacDonald, Marilyn Dumont, Katie Bickell, Leilei Chen, Rita Bouvier, Olivia Spring, Catherine Owen, Kyla Jamieson, Matthew James Weigel, Jason Lee Norman, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Lauren Seal, Sage Giroux, Yeon Soo Ha, Omar Ramadan, Meghan Eaker, Emily Riddle, Medgine Mathurin, Kim Mannix, Spirit Tongues, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
Marco Melfi, Ryan James Summers (Some-Sum), Alexis Kienlen, Anna Marie Sewell, Matthew James Weigel, Katherine Gibson, Marilyn Dumont, Lisa Martin, Grayson Thate, Theresa Kishkan, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Rayanne Haines, Jillian Christmas, Nisha Patel, Jason Purcell, Timiro Mohamed, and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Shimelis Gebremichael, Aminatou Sow, Ana Ruiz Aguirre, Harnarayan Singh, Corinne Riedel, Nisha Patel, Titilope Sonuga, Desmond Cole, James Raffan, Lauren McKeon, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Canisia Lubrin, Houssem Ben Lazreg, Adriana Oniță, Zach Polis, Rayanne Haines, Cikwes, Lady Vanessa, Alex Allen, Marita Dachsel, Pierrette Requier, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Evelyne Gagnon, Amy Malbeuf, Gisèle Villeneuve, E.D. Blodgett, Alessandra Naccarato, Josée Thibeault, Helen Knott, Mark A. McCutcheon, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Tim Bowling, Kathy Fisher, Norma Dunning, Joel Katelnikoff, Rebecca Thomas, Marina Reid Hale, Nanise, Floyd Robert-Maduekwe, Kaz Mega, Ben Ladouceur, and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Wendy McGrath, Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Brandon Wint, Laurie MacFayden, Antony Di Nardo, Alice Major, Giselle Lemire, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Alison Grant-Préville, Nisha Patel, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Carole Saint-Cyr, Jérôme Melançon, Sheri-D Wilson, David C. Brydges, Rebecca Lappa, Sue Goyette, Blaine Marchand, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Kerry Mulholland, Lorrie Simunovic, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Dennis Cooley, Paul Zits, Sandy Pool, Josée Thibeault, Stephen Scobie, Michael Penny, Julie Robinson, Erín Moure, Shawna Lemay, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Kimmy Beach, Florent J. Feulefack, Kevan Anthony Cameron, Gisèle Villeneuve, Patricia Darbasie, Mireille Moquin, Holger Peterson, Simon Crowley, Jillian Christmas, Don Kerr, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Shawna Lemay, Nancy Mattson, Shelley Leedahl, Jonathan Hart, Jérôme Melançon, Ben Murray, Alice Major, Peter Midgley, Barbara Langhorst, Anna Marie Sewell, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Goran Simic, Paul Dutton, Regie Cabico, Michael Gravel, E.D. Blodgett, John Lent, Thom Golub, Tololwa Mollel, A.F. Moritz, Cathy Hodgson, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Cadence Weapon, Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, Kwazii (Dakwon), Robert Heidbreder, Valerie Mason-John, Lisa Martin, Mitch Holtby, Lorri Nielsen Glenn, rob mclennan, Mikey Maybe, and more.
All from 2010