Groovin’ along …

Every day, another author is booked! Here’s an updated list. (much more to come!)

Watch for more info, including our full program line-up, which includes presenters, exhibitors, musicians, roving performers, and more!

The Word On The Street is just 2 1/2 months away! (Sept. 25)

(And watch for more info about Saturday programming at Carnegie Centre, as well as special programming Friday night.)

Authors booked to date:
Carmen Aguirre – Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (D & M Publishers)
Gurjinder Basran – Everything Was Goodbye (Mother Tongue Books)
Andrea Bellamy – Sugar Snaps & Strawberries: Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden (Timber Press)
Grant Buday – Stranger on a Strange Island (New Star Books) (non-fiction)
Steve Burgess – Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son’s Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles (Greystone Books)
Don Calame – Beat the Band (Candlewick Press) (YA)
Norma Charles – Run Marco, Run (Ronsdale Press) (YA)
Kevin Chong – Beauty Plus Pity (Arsenal Pulp Press) (fiction)
Kristeva Dowling – Chicken Poop for the Soul: A Year in Search of Food Sovereignty (Caitlin)
John Furlong – Patriot Hearts (D & M Publishers) (non-fiction)
Charlotte Gill – Eating Dirt: Field Notes on Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (Greystone Books)
Jen Sookfong Lee – The Better Mother (Knopf Canada)(fiction)
David Lester – The Listener (Arbeiter Ring) (graphic novel)
Donato Mancini – Buffet World (New Star Books) (poetry)
Robin McConnell – Inkstuds (Conundrum) (interviewed by Sean Cranbury)
Kevin McNeilly – Embouchure (Nightwood Editions) (poetry)
Garry Thomas Morse – Discovery Passages (Talonbooks) (poetry)
Georgia Nicols – You and Your Future: Your Signs, Your In-Depth Personality Patterns, Your 40-Year Horoscopes (Anansi)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Empire of the Beetle (Greystone Books) (non-fiction)
Michael V. Smith – Progress (Cormorant) (novel)
Barbara Stewart – Campie (Heritage House Publishing) (non-fiction)
Rob Taylor – The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books) (poetry)
Timothy Taylor – The Blue Light Project (Knopf Canada) (novel)
Shirley Jean Roll Tucker – The Amazing Foot Race of 1921 (Heritage House Publishing) (non-fiction)
John Vaillant – The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Random House Canada)
Calvin Wharton – The Song Collides (Anvil Press) (poetry)

Woo hoo!

More authors confirmed for Word On The Street Vancouver 2011

Here’s the the list of booked authors to date! We’re getting excited. Just 3 1/2 months away!

Carmen Aguirre – Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter(D & M Publishers)
Andrea Bellamy – Sugar Snaps & Strawberries: Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden (Timber Press)
Steve Burgess – Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son’s Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles (Greystone Books)
Don Calame – Beat the Band (Candlewick Press) (YA)
Norma Charles – Run Marco, Run (Ronsdale Press) (YA)
Kristeva Dowling – Chicken Poop for the Soul: A Year in Search of Food Sovereignty (Caitlin)
John Furlong – Patriot Hearts (D & M Publishers) (non-fiction)
Charlotte Gill – Eating Dirt: Field Notes on Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (Greystone Books)
Robin McConnell – Inkstuds (Conundrum) (interviews with comic artists)
Garry Thomas Morse – Discovery Passages (Talonbooks) (poetry)
Georgia Nicols – You and Your Future: Your Signs, Your In-Depth Personality Patterns, Your 40-Year Horoscopes (Anansi)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Empire of the Beetle (Greystone Books) (non-fiction)
Michael V. Smith – Progress (Cormorant) (novel)
Timothy Taylor – The Blue Light Project (Knopf Canada) (novel)
John Vaillant – The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Random House Canada)

Woo hoo!

Confirmed 2011 Festival Authors so far

We’ve been tweeting any talent confirmations for The Word On The Street Vancouver 2011, but here is the list so far:

• Carmen Aguirre – Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
• Andrea Bellamy – Sugar Snaps & Strawberries: Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden
• Steve Burgess – Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son’s Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
• Don Calame – Beat the Band
• Charlotte Gill – Eating Dirt: Field Notes on Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
• Georgia Nicols – You and Your Future: Your Signs, Your In-Depth Personality Patterns, Your 40-Year Horoscopes
• Michael V. Smith – Progress
• Timothy Taylor – The Blue Light Project
• Garry Thomas Morse – Discovery Passages
• John Vaillant – The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival