Word on the Street Vancouver

Thomas Trofimuk is a Canadian novelist, poet and musician. His second novel, Doubting Yourself to the Bone, was a #1 bestseller (Edmonton Journal) and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2006. Trofimuk will read from his novel, Waiting for Columbus, in the Authors Tent.

Robyn Harding is the author of four successful novels including The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom and Unravelled. She is a contributing editor at Granville Magazine, a lifestyle publication with a focus on sustainability. Harding will read from Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, ... (more)Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family, in the Canada Writes Tent.

Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood will be headlining our Word On The Screen venue, reading from her highly anticipated new novel, The Year of the Flood, via a live broadcast from Toronto. Vancouver fans will be able to participate in the Q&A and have their own copy of The Year of the Flood signed ... (more)by the author using LongPen technology. Canada’s first live coast-to-coast book launch using the technology will broadcast Atwood in person from The Word On The Street Toronto to The Word On The Street festivals in Vancouver and Halifax. The interactive video broadcast will allow festival participants to engage in a question-and-answer session with the author. Atwood will sign books before the broadcast using the LongPen, allowing her to talk with each fan via a private video chat and to transmit a genuine, personalized autograph instantly to the interior pages of their copy of the book. The book signing will be followed by a reading and question-and-answer session with the author from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Free tickets to Atwood’s broadcast appearance will be available at 10:00 am outside the Alma VanDusen room (limit of two tickets per person). Seating is limited.

Anne Giardini is a lawyer and writer. Her first novel, The Sad Truth About Happiness, garnered international praise for its beautiful story and rich, complex characters. Giardini will read from Advice for Italian Boys, in the Authors Tent.

Jesse Dylan is the award-winning host of The Good Life, a radio program featuring the latest in holistic health of body, mind and spirit. During 30 years in radio, he has won Gold medals at the International Festival of Radio and the ACTRA award for On Air Personality of the Year. Dylan will read from ... (more)The Good Life: Redefining Your Health with the Greatest Visionaries of Our Time in the Canada Writes Tent.

Cathleen With, author of the story collection Skids, has worked as a teacher for Korean children, Khmer NGO workers, Arctic teenagers and Thai street children. Cathleen With will read from Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison in the Authors Tent.

Des Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, environmental activist and author of three books of essays and a novel. Kennedy will read from Climbing Patrick's Mountain in the Canada Writes Tent.

Ivan E. Coyote is a writer, performer and the author of five books including a short story collection, Loose End, short-listed for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction. She will read from The Slow Fix in the Authors Tent.

Joseph Jones, librarian emeritus at UBC, has engaged with books as reader, collector, cataloguer, reviewer, bliographer, historian, typesetter, publisher—and now translator. He is the author of Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies. Jones will read from Shifting Sands, a translation of Les ... (more)Sables Mouvants by Hubert Aquin, in the Canada Writes Tent.

Michael Turner’s second book, Hard Core Logo, was made into an acclaimed feature film and his screenplay-cum-novel, American Whiskey Bar, was produced as a live televsion special. Turner will read from his new novel 8 x 10 in the Authors Tent.

Jowi Taylor is the Peabody Award–winning freelance writer, host and producer behind such CBC Radio projects as The Wire, The Nerve, Global Village and "Invisible Cities" Taylor will present Six String Nation in the Canada Writes Tent and musician Jim Byrnes will perform on the Voyageur (the Six String ... (more)Nation guitar) on the Literally Funy Mainstage.

Jim Lynch has worked as a journalist, winning a number of national reporting honours. His award-winning first novel, The Highest Tide, was an international bestseller. Lynch will read from Border Songs in the Authors Tent.

June Hutton has worked as a teacher and a journalist. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines and she is a member of the SPiN writing group. She will read from Underground in the Canada Writes Tent.

Rhonda Waterfall’s work has appeared in Geist, Descant and several other literary journals. Waterfall will read from The Only Thing I Have in the Authors Tent.

Robin Stevenson is the author of several novels for teens, including Impossible Things, Dead in the Water and A Thousand Shades of Blue which was short-listed for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize in 2009. Stevenson will read from her young adult novel, Inferno, in the Canada Writes Tent.

Starts at 2:20 PM. Deborah Willis was a winner of PRISM International’s annual fiction prize and her work has appeared in the Bridport Prize Anthology, Event and Grain. She currently works as a bookseller. Willis will read from Vanishing and Other Stories in the Authors Tent.

Janet Love Morrison traveled extensively across Canada, Europe and South America and interviewed more than 70 people to research The Crazy Canucks: Canada's Legendary Ski Team. In 1997, she worked with Summerhill Productions on the CBC’s Life and Times: These Crazy Canucks. Morrison will read from ... (more)The Crazy Canucks, a One Book, One Vancouver title, in the Canada Writes Tent.

Starts at 2:40. Rebecca Hendry writes regularly for Just Business Magazine and her fiction writing has appeared in literary journals across Canada. Hendry will read from Grace River in the Authors Tent.

Annabel Lyon’s first book, the short story collection Oxygen, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed and ReLit awards. Her second collection, The Best Thing for You, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. Lyon will read from The Golden Mean in the Authors Tent.

rgaret Thompson is the author of Fox Winter, Knocking on the Moonlit Door and Eyewitness, the winner of a BC2000 Book Award. Thompson will read from Adrift on the Ark: Our Connection to the Natural World in the Canada Writes Tent.

Theresa Kishkan is an accomplished author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Her collection of essays, Phantom Limb, was nominated for the 2007 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and her novel, A Man in a Distant Field, was short-listed for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Kishkan will read from The ... (more)Age of Water Lilies in the Authors Tent.

Brian Brett is the author of Uproar's Your Only Music and several books of poetry. His journalism has appeared in major Canadian newspapers including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and The Vancouver Sun. He will read from Trauma Farm in the Canada Writes Tent.

Robert J. Wiersema is a bookseller and reviewer whose writing has appeared in numerous newspapers across Canada. His first book, Before I Wake, was a national bestseller. Wiersema will read from The World More Full of Weeping in the Authors Tent.

Ian Gill is president of Ecotrust Canada and has won numerous awards for his documentary reporting on CBC Television. He is the author of the bestselling Hiking on the Edge and Haida Gwaii: Journeys through the Queen Charlotte Islands. He will read from All That We Say is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening ... (more)of the Haida Nation in the Canada Writes Tent.

Starts at 4:20 PM. Michael Kenyon has published six books, including The Biggest Animals and The Sutler and his work has won the Baxter Hathaway Prize in fiction, The Malahat Review Novella Prize and the Journey Prize. Kenyon will read from The Beautiful Children in the Authors Tent.

Boyanowsky is a professor at Simon Fraser University and has written extensively on fishing and conservation issues. Ehor Boyanowsky is a professor at Simon Fraser University and has written extensively on fishing and conservation issues. He is the co-author of The Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Steelhead. ... (more)Boyanowsky will read from Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts, in the Canada Writes Tent.

Starts at 4:40 PM. C.C. Humphreys is the author of eight previous novels including The French Executioner, which was runner-up for the CWA Steel Dagger. His series of Jack Absolute novels have been published in many languages around the world. Humphreys will read from Vlad: The Last Confession in the ... (more)Authors Tent.