Headliners Archive
2025
The High Level Magpie.
Joleen Ballendine, Ladies First Ensemble, Tzadeka and the Murder Hornettes, Su Croll, The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), Catalina Morales Velez, Daniel Poitras, Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), Ava San Agustin, and more.
All from 20252024
Voices Flow
Patrick Grace, Jannie Edwards, Pierrette Requier, Damn Magpies (a free-improvisation sextet), Spoken Word Youth Choir (SWYC), Manijeh Mannani, rob mclennan, Katie Bickell, Catherine Owen, Margaret Christakos, and more.
All from 20242023
Ignite Unite
Kim Mannix, Sonja Ruth Greckol, Bryn Lipinski, Lauren Seal, MadJohn!, Gavin Doyle, Alice Major, Lydia LeBlanc, Joe Bishop, Sublime Intervention Collective, and more.
All from 20232022
We're Back!
V. Guzman, Kim Mannix, Lisa Martin, Hannah Gelderman, Norma Dunning, Katherine Gibson, Jason Purcell, Anna Marie Sewell, Alexis Kienlen, Jenna Butler, and more.
All from 20222021
LitFest 2021
Timiro Mohamed, Jillian Christmas, Rayanne Haines, Jason Purcell, Nisha Patel, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20212020
LitFest Goes Virtual
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Mark Spector, Christa Couture, Francine Merasty, Tazeen Hasan, Lorna Crozier, Daniel Poitras, Karrie Auger, Corinne Riedel, Aminatou Sow, and more.
All from 20202019
HomeWord
Houssem Ben Lazreg, James Collier, Nermeen Youssef, Sarah-Jeanne Bélec, Jason Purcell, Doyali Islam, Maria Barbu, Alexis Hillyard, MelAfrique, Karen Unland, and more.
All from 20192018
Your Voice Here/Nêhiyawêtân/Toi.Ta Voix. Ici.
Angela Kublik, Manijeh Mannani, Timiro Mohamed, Omar Farah, Kai Cheng Thom, Margaret Christakos, Marina Reid Hale, Jordan Abel, E.D. Blodgett, Evelyne Gagnon, and more.
All from 20182017
Horizons/Eskonahkwahk
Gisèle Villeneuve, Tyler Perry, Tab CA, David Oberholtzer, Joel Katelnikoff, Nanise, Medgine Mathurin, Rebecca Thomas, Richard Harrison, Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson), and more.
All from 20172016
Poetry Becomes
Raphaël Freynet, Liam Coady, Manijeh Mannani, Isaac Bond, Megan Paranich, Jannie Edwards, Vivek Shraya, Tab CA, Darrin Hagen, Giselle Lemire, and more.
All from 20162015
Poetry Moves
Megan Dart, Leif Gregersen, Kasia Gawlak, Michel Pleau, Morgan Smith, Helen Moffett, Stephen T. Berg, Josée Thibeault, Fran Figge, Carole Saint-Cyr, and more.
All from 20152014
Word Bridges
Jocelyne Verret, Dennis Cooley, Skye Hyndman, Harleen Cheema, Shawna Lemay, Clint McElwaine, Deborah Lawson, Iman Mersal, Stephen Scobie, Joe Gurba, and more.
All from 20142013
Word Nation
Kasia Gawlak, Marlon “Arlo Maverick” Wilson, Mohamed Elgendi, Elsa Robinson, Giselle Lemire, Yaa Serwaa Somuah, Kris Demeanor, Jenna Butler, Liz Lochhead, Andy Northrup, and more.
All from 20132012
Words on the Line
Kathleen Brown, The Raving Poets Band, Marilyn Dumont, Pierrette Requier, Jocelyne Verret, Jeff Carpenter, Tom Radford, Greg Debicki, Barbara Langhorst, Josée Thibeault, and more.
All from 20122011
Get Caught Up
Susan McCaslin, Tanya Davis, Ian Keteku, Karen Solie, Michael Gravel, Sheri-D Wilson, Mark Edwards, Titilope Sonuga, a.rawlings, Douglas Barbour, and more.
All from 20112010
Found in Translation
Robert Kroetsch, Omar Mouallem, Robert Heidbreder, Nancy Mackenzie, Lorri Nielsen Glenn, Laurie MacFayden, Helene Garrett, Kwazii (Dakwon), Titilope Sonuga, Tonguebath, and more.
All from 2010