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This year, the BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor theme is Bridging Communities! This is in honor of the...


BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2024

Our previous year was a smashing success! BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor had our best turnout yet! For 2024, our main festival will be in-person from October 18th to 19th. Last year, our event venues included a variety of well-known Windsor establishments. This year, we are keeping it simple by hosting the entire festival at the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts building, the Armouries, downtown. This year, the BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor theme is Bridging Communities! This is in honor of the nearly finished Gordie Howe International Bridge, which, like BookFest, brings people together. A bridge also represents overcoming obstacles and removing barriers to access. This year, our festival focuses on intersectionality, which recognizes how individuals hold multiple identities and face unique challenges at the intersections of those identities. Peruse our authors from last year’s lineup and see why it’s worth it to get a Festival Pass. Watch our virtual event, Stories that Connect Us, from last year below!

Bookfest Authors 2023


  • André Narbonne

    André Narbonne is the father of four children and the author of three books. His critical and creative…

  • ANUJA VARGHESE

    ANUJA VARGHESE is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, the Malahat Review, the Fiddlehead,…

  • Brenda Lee Wright McCurdy

    Brenda Lee Wright McCurdy was born in Richmond, Virginia. She received a B.S. Degree in Biology from Virginia…

  • C.M. Forest

    C.M. Forest, also known as Christian Laforet, is the author of the Benjamin Franklin award winning novel Infested,…

  • Carlos Anthony

    Carlos Anthony is a filmmaker and author who writes about the experiences that Black men have historically avoided…

  • Carol Margaret Davison

    Dr. Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the newly formed Interdisciplinary and Critical…

  • Chris Kuriata

    Chris Kuriata lives in, and often writes about the Niagara region. His short fiction has appeared in publications…

  • Craig Shreve

    Craig Shreve was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by…

  • Didier Leclair

    Didier Leclair, de son vrai nom, Didier Kabagema, est né en 1967 à Montréal. Ses parents sont d’origine…

  • Don Gillmor

    Don Gillmor, current Toronto resident, is the author of To the River, which won the Governor General’s Award…

  • Edem Awumey

    Edem Awumey est né au Togo. Après quelques années passées en France où il a publié son premier…

  • G. A. Grisenthwaite

    G. A. Grisenthwaite is Nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation. His stories and poems have appeared in…

  • Gary Barwin

    Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multidisciplinary artist and prolific collaboration. He is the author of 30 books…

  • George Elliott Clarke

    The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke hails…

  • Hollay Ghadery

    Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry…

  • Jake Byrne

    Jake Byrne is a poet and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Their work has been published in journals…

  • Jan Conn

    Jan Conn is a Canadian geneticist and poet. Her poetry has received a CBC Literary Prize, the inaugural…

  • Jane Rhodes

    Jane Rhodes is Professor of Black Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Research in the College of Liberal…

  • Jason Bradshaw

    Jason Bradshaw is a Toronto based cartoonist. He has been self publishing his comic series, Bore, since 2009….

  • Jason Heroux

    Jason Heroux is the author of four books of poetry: Memoirs of an Alias (2004); Emergency Hallelujah (2008);…

  • Klara du Plessis

    Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. Her debut poetry…

  • Leslie McCurdy

    Recipient of a Platinum Jubilee Pin in Honour of Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, a 2017 Vigor…

  • Lisa Alward

    She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto…

  • MA|DE

    MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, a unity of two voices fused into a single, poetic…

  • Matthew Del Papa

    Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Matthew Del Papa has been in a wheelchair since the early 1980s. A…

  • Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

    Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her collection of poetry, 100 Days (University of Alberta,…

  • Pauline Conley

    Pauline Conley recently forayed from an established career as a painter and explainer to “do comics.” Fire Monster is her…

  • Sneha Madhavan-Reese

    Sneha Madhavan-Reese was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Observing the Moon, was…

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    Our virtual event, Stories that Connect Us, during the 2023 BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor. Featuring Gord. A. Grisenthwaite, Lisa Alward, and Matthew Del Papa. Hosted by Festival Chair and Literary Arts Windsor President, Wesley Foster. Moderated by former LAW president, Sarah Jarvis.