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2025 Festival Authors + Moderators

Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Caroline Adderson
André Alexis
Francis Arevalo
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
Lexi LaFleur Brown
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
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
Katrina Kwan
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
NASRA
Cecily Nicholson
Susin Nielsen
Emilee Nimetz
Terry O’Reilly
Carol Off
Alix Ohlin
Kenneth Oppel
Susan Orlean
Shannon Ozirny
Paloma Pacheco
Kathy Page
Amy Pelletier
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
Sophie Sullivan
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