2025 Festival Authors + Moderators

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Caroline Adderson

André Alexis

Christian Allaire

Katherine Ashenburg

Margaret Atwood

Mona Awad

Linda Bailey

Christina Barber

Martha Bátiz

Kate Beaton

David Beers

Vince Beiser

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Michael Bennett

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Rebecca Blair

Tanya Boteju

Marian Botsford Fraser

Holly Brickley

Brent Butt

Claire Cameron

Jillian Christmas

Ray Clark

Tim Cook

Mike Curato

Michelle Cyca

Chloe Dalton

Anne de Marcken

Kiran Desai

Junie Désil

Meeru Dhalwala

Marcello Di Cintio

Ronald J. Deibert

Cory Doctorow

Emma Donoghue

Antonio Michael Downing

Kyle Edwards

Christine Estima

Terry Fallis

Elaine Feeney

Holly Flauto

John Freeman

Margaret Gallagher

Matt Galloway

Whitney Gardner

Bill Gaston

Don Gillmor

Jill Yonit Goldberg

Larry Grant

Kathryn Gretsinger

Kathleen Gros

Chris Hadfield

Rachel Hartman

Claire Hatcher-Smith

Jon Hickey

Gord Hill

Cori Howard

Aislinn Hunter

Leslie Hurtig

Tariq Hussain

Jay Ingram

Anosh Irani

Adel Iskandar

Am Johal

Plum Johnson

William Johnson

Jennifer Jones

Bob Joseph

Guy Gavriel Kay

Tae Keller

Elin Kelsey

Mark Kershaw

Wesley King

Naomi Klein

Emma Knight

Elee Kraljii Gardiner

R.F. Kuang

Clara Kumagai

Shaena Lambert

Karin Larsen

Doretta Lau

Eve Lazarus

Danielle Leavitt

Marsha Lederman

Amanda Leduc

Jen Sookfong Lee

Dennis Lee

Carol Lee

Jonathan Lethem

Hudson Lin

Anna Ling Kaye

Corey Liu

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Canisia Lubrin

Sophie Lui

Yiming Ma

Linden MacIntyre

Roz MacLean

Johnny MacRae

Minelle Mahtani

Sarah Manguso

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Eimear McBride

Fiona McFarlane

Tara McGuire

Scott McIntyre

Bruce McIvor

Benjamin Millman

Haley Mlotek

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

David Moscrop

Walter Mosley

Leila Mottley

Cecily Nicholson

Susin Nielsen

Emilee Nimetz

Terry O’Reilly

Carol Off

Alix Ohlin

Kenneth Oppel

Susan Orlean

Shannon Ozirny

Paloma Pacheco

Kathy Page

Kirsten Pendreigh

Marc Perez

André Picard

Stephen Quinn

Eliana Ramage

Karolina Ramqvist

Michael Redhill

Bonny Reichert

Maria Reva

Jael Richardson

Mattea Roach

David A. Robertson

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross

Arundhati Roy

Ziyad Saadi

Renée Sarojini Saklikar

Rachel Sargeant

Thomas Schlesser

Coltrane Seesequasis

Donna Seto

Sheung-King

Merilyn Simonds

Stephanie Sinclair

Niigaan Sinclair

Curtis Sittenfeld

Michael V. Smith

Danez Smith

Timothy Snyder

Karen Solie

Anjalica Solomon

Kim Spencer

Scott Steedman

Sarah Suk

Bindu Suresh

Nilo Tabrizy

Eddy Boudel Tan

Bronwen Tate

Saeed Teebi

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Madeleine Thien

Jeremy Tiang

Miriam Toews

Georgia Toews

Johnny Trinh

Iryn Tushabe

Paul Vermeersch

Katherena Vermette

Eleanor Wachtel

Rachel Wada

Jess Walter

Jack Wang

Isabella Wang

Jerry Wasserman

Melanie Watt

Ira Wells

Sam Wiebe

Robert J. Wiersema

Ian Williams

Michelle Wong

Rebecca Wood Barrett

Clea Young

Liann Zhang