Garnet Rogers is a legendary folk musician, singer, songwriter. composer and also an author. He recently released his memoir Night Drive: Travels with my Brother, which tells the tale of two young brothers, Stan and Garnet, touring across Canada and the States as they try to earn a living with their music in the 70’s and 80’s.

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Beth Bruder is Vice-President at Dundurn Press, now Canada’s largest independent press, publishing over 100 titles a year. She was chair of the committee which launched the 49th Shelf, a Canadian book discovery website, which helps readers find Canadian books in all genres. Beth talks about why she loves publishing and what publishers look for in a manuscript.

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Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer and writer. In recent years he has spent most of his time in Europe. He is listed as a counsel on the International Criminal Court. He has written poetry, novels and plays throughout his legal career.

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Shebat Legion is a prolific author of short stories published all over the world and the creator of the Vampire Therapy Chronicles. The third of these Elizabetta is about to be published.

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Bruce Kauffman is the host of a long running radio show from Kingston, “Finding a  Voice”, the founder of a monthly open mic programme, Poetry @ the Artel, the author of several books of poetry and the editor of several more.

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Author of a fascinating memoir, A Scotsman Abroad, Mackay tells Word on the Hills how he came to focus, in his memoir, on the period of his life when he taught linguistics at Bucharest University, Romania.

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Deborah, a well-known Cobourg poet, talks about poetry, how she approaches writing her poems and reads from her work.

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Jan Thornhill is a celebrated and award winning children’s author. She talks about her career and introduces her newest book, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk which will be released by Groundwood Books this fall.

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Janet Richards is a poet and journalist. She talks about her book, The Glass Skin, (HIdden Brook Press)  a collection of poems written after moving from the city to the Quinte area.

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Nathalie is a teacher of French who has recently published a book for Intermediate French Learners and also runs a Facebook page called J’apprends le Francais Canadien which has 25,000 followers.

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