A three-time Canadian national slam finalist who speaks about resilience, queer identity and the inheritance of struggle.
Amanda Earl est l'auteure de Kiki, et a été intronisée au Hall d'honneur de VERSeOttawa en 2014.
Anne Compton won the 2005 Governor-General's Award for Poetry, for her collection Processional.
Anthony Bansfield is an iconic Canadian spoken word artist and builder of community.
Arleen Paré's Lake of Two Mountains won the 2014 Governor General's Award for poetry.
Le recueil, Treaty# (Wolsak and Wynn) est d'Armand Garnet Ruffo.
Artemysia has been performing in Ottawa for over two years, and runs the monthly series Words to Live By.
Barâa Arar aime les histoires. Elle croit que chacun possède son propre récit et que nous devrions tous y príªter l'oreille.
bill bissett est un monument de la littérature anglo-canadienne. Ses poèmes-mélopées sont une force vitale.
Claire Caldwell is a poet and editor living in Toronto, and runs SmallPrintTO's Rhyme Stew, a rap-poetry workshop for kids.
dalton derkson is a punk poet from the prairies, and runs the D.I.Y. collective Hurtin' Crí¼e Press.
Daphne Marlatt is a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and winner of the 2012 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.
Deanna Young "“ lauréate d'Ottawa (anglophone)
Dennis Cooley is the author of 19 poetry collections.
Poet Laureate of Halifax, El Jones is a spoken word champion, activist and teacher who has performed all over Canada.
A part of a growing band of new young political Irish poets, Elaine Feeney has flourished as an internationally-acclaimed spoken word artist.
Emily McRae s'inspire de ses paysages Néo-Brunswickois pour composer ses poèmes.
Emma Blue was a member of the London Poetry Slam's 2014 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word team.
Éric Charlebois est poète publié dans les deux langues officielles, double lauréat du prix Trillium poésie et traducteur littéraire.
Forrest Gander has written numerous books of poetry, and has translated poets' writing in Spanish and Japanese.
Frances Itani is an award-winning author of 16 books: novels, poetry, short stories and children's books.
Frédéric est étudiant í la maí®trise au Département de franí§ais de uOttawa. Il se spécialise en science-fiction.
Gail Scott, an acclaimed Montreal novelist, has written several ground-breaking novels.
Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 45 books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, and translation.
Geneviève Bouchard est étudiante (la maítrise profil création littéraire, l'Université d'Ottawa).
En 2010, Ger∂ur Kristny a remporté le prix littéraire islandais pour son recueil Bló∂hófnir (Bloodhoof).
Giles Benaway (Anishinaabe/Métis/Tsagli) is of Odawa/Potawatomi, Cherokee, Métis and European descent.
Gilles Latour est poète lauréat francophone d'Ottawa (2021-2022).
Gillian Wigmore has written 3 poetry collections. Her book, soft geograhy, won the 2008 ReLit award.
Grant Savage is among the best known and respected Canadian writers of Japanese forms.
Herménégilde Chiasson est un artiste visuel, mais il crée aussi dans le domaine de la littérature, du cinéma, et du théâtre.
Jamaal Jackson Rogers est nationalement reconnu comme artiste, entrepreneur créatif et éducateur artistique.
JC Bouchard a Toronto poet and the author of Portraits (2014), and WOOL WATER, forthcoming Spring 2015.
Poetry editor at Coach House books, Jeramy Dodds' Crabwise to the Hounds won the Trillium Book Award for poetry.
John Akpata is a writer, musician, Spoken Word artist and Art Educator based in Ottawa, Canada.
À coup de folie et de passion, cette jeune géographe teint sa vie de mots et de poésie.
King Kimbit est un rappeur ottavien. À bon entendeur, salut !
Komi Olaf's surrealistic art and poetry bridges cultural divides and speaks of the immigrant's perspective.
Critique littéraire, poète et nouvelliste, Lélia Young habite aujourd'hui Toronto oí¹ elle enseigne í l'Université York.
Lillian Allen specializes in dub poetry, a highly politicized form preferring a black aesthetic and cultural codification.
Lisa Jarnot is the author of four full-length collections of poetry.
Lise Gaboury-Diallo a publié de nombreux recueils de poésie et des anthologies.
Lorna Crozier is an icon in Canadian poetry circles.
Margaret Michele Cook est la Poète lauréat français d'Ottawa.
L'un des principaux haí¯kutistes canadiens, Marshall Hryciuk, effectue une visite de retour au VERSeFest.
Mehdi Hamdad is a songwriter, musician, poet and actor who's been performing across Canada since 2007.
La onzième recueil de Michel Therien est Le poème involontaire.
Nick Laird is an award-winning Irish poet and novelist.
Nicole Brossard est deux fois gagnante du Prix du Gouverneur général (1974, 1984) pour sa poésie.
Ikenna Onyegbula a.k.a OpenSecret is a writer, arts educator and World Champion spoken word poet of Nigerian descent.
Patrick Friesen is the author of numerous books of poetry, a book of essays, a play, and co-translations of several Danish poets.
Patrick Lane is one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, winner of numerous awards, including the GG Award for Poetry.
Paul Vermeersch is the author of several poetry collections, and is Senior Editor for Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.
La quatrième collection de Pearl Pirie est footlights de Radiant Press.
Rational Rebel s'est donnée pour mission d'interpréter des histoires difficiles í raconter.
Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000.
Roland Prevost is the author of Singular Plurals (Chaudiere, 2014) and four chapbooks.
Ridley est une lectrice intense dont les prestations réduisent au silence et í l'immobilité jusqu'aux punaises dans la salle.
Sheri-D Wilson has nine collections of poetry and two Spoken Word CDs.
Stan Dragland's books have won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian literary criticism and the bpNichol Chapbook Award, among others.
Stephen Brockwell est un poète de Montréal vivant à Ottawa.
Steven Artelle's first collection of poems, Metropantheon, was published in 2014 by Signature Editions.
Stevie Howell's first book, Sharps, was released in Fall 2014.
Titilope is a Nigerian born spoken word poet and winner of the 2011 Canadian Authors' Association Emerging Writer Award.
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