2025 Festival Authors

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Caroline Adderson

André Alexis

Christian Allaire

Katherine Ashenburg

Margaret Atwood

Mona Awad

Linda Bailey

Martha Bátiz

Kate Beaton

Vince Beiser

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Michael Bennett

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Tanya Boteju

Holly Brickley

Claire Cameron

Tim Cook

Mike Curato

Chloe Dalton

Anne de Marcken

Kiran Desai

Marcello Di Cintio

Ronald J. Deibert

Cory Doctorow

Emma Donoghue

Antonio Michael Downing

Kyle Edwards

Christine Estima

Terry Fallis

Elaine Feeney

Whitney Gardner

Bill Gaston

Don Gillmor

Jill Yonit Goldberg

Larry Grant

Kathleen Gros

Chris Hadfield

Rachel Hartman

Claire Hatcher-Smith

Seán Hewitt

Jon Hickey

Gord Hill

Jay Ingram

Plum Johnson

Jennifer Jones

Bob Joseph

Guy Gavriel Kay

Tae Keller

elin kelsey

Wesley King

Emma Knight

R.F. Kuang

Clara Kumagai

Eve Lazarus

Danielle Leavitt

Marsha Lederman

Amanda Leduc

Jen Sookfong Lee

Dennis Lee

Carol Lee

Jonathan Lethem

Corey Liu

Canisia Lubrin

Yiming Ma

Linden MacIntyre

Roz MacLean

Megha Majumdar

Eimear McBride

Fiona McFarlane

Scott McIntyre

Bruce McIvor

Haley Mlotek

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Walter Mosley

Leila Mottley

Cecily Nicholson

Susin Nielsen

Terry O’Reilly

Kenneth Oppel

Susan Orlean

Kirsten Pendreigh

Eliana Ramage

Karolina Ramqvist

Michael Redhill

Bonny Reichert

Maria Reva

David A. Robertson

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross

Arundhati Roy

Ziyad Saadi

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

Kim Spencer

Scott Steedman

Sarah Suk

Bindu Suresh

Susan Swan

Nilo Tabrizy

Eddy Boudel Tan

Saeed Teebi

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Madeleine Thien

Jeremy Tiang

Miriam Toews

Georgia Toews

Iryn Tushabe

katherena vermette

Rachel Wada

Jess Walter

Jack Wang

Isabella Wang

Melanie Watt

Ira Wells

Sam Wiebe

Ian Williams

Michelle Wong

Rebecca Wood Barrett

Clea Young

Liann Zhang