BookFest / Festival du Livre 2023 – Literary Arts Windsor

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BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2023

Our previous year was a smashing success! BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor was in-person for the first time in two years. For 2023, our main festival will be in-person from October 12th to 15th. 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, except the last day of the festival held at Fourteen Restaurant and Sky Lounge, for Books and Brunch and the Poetry Café. Peruse our authors in this year’s lineup and see why it’s worth it to get a Festival Pass. Check out one of our previous author highlights below!

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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…