Authors

From Auster to Zentner, last year’s line up of authors was a delight and surprise. With new voices Amanda Jernigan and Martha Schabas; established prize–winners Kenneth J. Harvey and Elizabeth Hay; international stars J.M. Coetzee and Antjie Krog; popular repeat visitors Lorna Crozier and Richard Gwyn; and much–loved moderators Eric Friesen and Bill Richardson, Kingston WritersFest 2011 was the literary event of the year.

Click on a book cover, author photo, or a name in the sidebar to learn more about the artists and our wonderful moderators.

Kingston WritersFest: Words to Move You!

  • Paul Auster Sunset Park
  • Paul Auster Sunset Park
  • Anita Rau Badami Tell It To the Trees
  • Anita Rau Badami Tell It To the Trees
  • Adwoa Badoe Between Sisters
  • Adwoa Badoe Between Sisters
  • Linwood Barclay The Accident
  • Linwood Barclay The Accident
  • James K. Bartleman As Long as the Rivers Flow
  • James K. Bartleman As Long as the Rivers Flow
  • Peter Behrens The O'Briens
  • Peter Behrens The O'Briens
  • Dave Bidini Home and Away
  • Dave Bidini Home and Away
  • Giles Blunt Crime Machine
  • Giles Blunt Crime Machine
  • Lara Bozabalian The Cartographer's Skin
  • Lara Bozabalian The Cartographer's Skin
  • Yvette Christianse
  • J.M. Coetzee Summertime
  • J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
  • J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
  • Lorna Crozier Small Mechanics
  • Lorna Crozier Small Mechanics
  • Romeo Dallaire
  • Romeo Dallaire Shake Hands with the Devil
  • Romeo Dallaire They Fight Like Soldiers; They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
  • Trevor Ferguson River City
  • Trevor Ferguson River City
  • Eric Folsom Icon Driven
  • Eric Folsom Icon Driven
  • Eric Friesen
  • Wayne Grady Techology
  • Wayne Grady Techology
  • Lorna Goodison By Love Possessed
  • Lorna Goodison By Love Possessed
  • Richard Gwyn Nation Maker
  • Richard Gwyn Nation Maker
  • Kenneth J. Harvey Reinventing the Rose
  • Kenneth J. Harvey Reinventing the Rose
  • Elizabeth Hay Alone in the Classroom
  • Elizabeth Hay Alone in the Classroom
  • Steven Heighton Every Lost Country
  • Steven Heighton Work Book
  • Steven Heighton Every Lost Country
  • Cynthia Holz Benevolence
  • Cynthia Holz Benevolence
  • Helen Humphreys The Reinvention of Love
  • Helen Humphreys The Reinvention of Love
  • Frances Itani Requiem
  • Frances Itani Requiem
  • Amanda Jernigan Groundbreak
  • Amanda Jernigan Groundbreak
  • Rosemary Jolly
  • Joshua Knelman Hot Art
  • Joshua Knelman Hot Art
  • Antjie Krog Body Bereft
  • Antjie Krog Body Bereft
  • Anne Landsman The Rowing Lesson
  • Anne Landsman The Rowing Lesson
  • Vincent Lam Tommy Douglas
  • Vincent Lam Tommy Douglas
  • Y.S. Lee The Agency
  • Y.S. Lee The Agency
  • Laurie Lewis Little Comrades
  • Laurie Lewis Little Comrades
  • Michael Lista Bloom
  • Michael Lista Bloom
  • Jeanette Lynes The Factory Voice
  • Jeanette Lynes The Factory Voice
  • Rozena Rosa's District Six
  • Rozena Maart
  • Sarah MacLachlan
  • Lee Maracle First Wives Club
  • Lee Maracle First Wives Club
  • Ben McNally
  • Ken McGoogan How the Scots Invented Canada
  • Ken McGoogan How the Scots Invented Canada
  • Daniel David Moses Almighty Voice and His Wife
  • Daniel David Moses Almighty Voice and His Wife
  • Njabulo Ndebele
  • The Cry of Winnie Mandela
  • Ruth Ohi Chicken, Pig, Cow
  • Ruth Ohi Chicken, Pig, Cow
  • Susan Olding Pathologies
  • Susan Olding Pathologies
  • Molly Peacock The Paper Garden
  • Molly Peacock The Paper Garden
  • Bruce Philp Consumer Republic
  • Bruce Philp Consumer Republic
  • Andrew Pyper The Guardians
  • Andrew Pyper The Guardians
  • Noah Richler What We Talk About When We Talk About War
  • Noah Richler What We Talk About When We Talk About War
  • David Adam Richards Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
  • David Adam Richards Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
  • Bill Richardson
  • Sandra Ridley Post-Apothecary
  • Sandra Ridley Post-Apothecary
  • Michael Riordon Our Way to Fight
  • Michael Riordon Our Way to Fight
  • Robert Sawyer Wonder
  • Robert Sawyer Wonder
  • Martha Schabas Various Positions
  • Martha Schabas Various Positions
  • Diane Schoemperlen At A Loss For Words
  • Diane Schoemperlen At A Loss For Words
  • Merilyn Simonds A New Leaf
  • Merilyn Simonds A New Leaf
  • Jonny Steinberg Little Liberia
  • Jonny Steinberg Little Liberia
  • Jamie Swift Persistent Poverty
  • Jamie Swift Persistent Poverty
  • Timothy Taylor The Blue Light Project
  • Timothy Taylor The Blue Light Project
  • Madeleine Thien Dogs at the Perimeter
  • Madeleine Thien Dogs at the Perimeter
  • Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Dogs Don't Eat Jam
  • Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Dogs Don't Eat Jam
  • Ivan Vladislavic Double Negative
  • Ivan Vladislavic Flashback Hotel
  • Ivan Vladislavic Double Negative
  • Merrily Weisbord The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
  • Merrily Weisbord The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
  • Robert Paul Weston Dust City
  • Robert Paul Weston Dust City
  • Alexi Zentner Touch
  • Alexi Zentner Touch
  • David Gossage
  • Mike Cassells Trio Without Words
  • Michael Perlin Trio Without Words
  • Jonathan Stewart Trio Without Words