On Stage at the IdeaHUB

Don’t forget to check out the IdeaHUB on Thursday

10:30 am – 11:25 am

CANSCAIP Authors

The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) invites you to join them for a lively session as some of today’s best children’s authors talk up their brand new creations.

  • Hosted by: Karen Krossing
  • Katie Arthur, What If Marty Doesn’t Like My Party?
  • Lea Beddia, My Green Style
  • Lana Button, First Ones on the Ice
  • Dana Church, The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People
  • Jennifer Harris, The Keeper of Stars
  • Nadia Hohn, Getting Us to Grandma’s + Patty Dreams (2 books)
  • Deborah Kerbel, Iggy Included + What About an Octopus? + No Huddles for Heloise (3 books)
  • Catherine Little, Anne of the Library-on-the-Hill
  • Nadja Lubiw-Hazard, Tizzy and Me: Fifteen Ways to Love a Mink
  • Sylvia McNicoll, Blue to the Sky
  • Monique Polak, Remember This: The Fascinating Wirld of Memory
  • Anna Rosner, Eyes on the Ice
  • Jessica Vitalis, Unsinkable Cayenne
  • Zenia Wadhwani, Once Upon A Sari
  • Kari-Lynn Winters, Hungry for Engineering: Poems to Gnaw On!

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Crime Time

Members of Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) will tantalize you with fast-paced introductions to their mystery, suspense, and true crime titles and deliver an open-and-shut case for listing their books in your library. From cozies to procedurals, thrillers, and hard-boiled, we offer fiction and non-fiction stories for everyone.

CWC is a national non-profit organization for Canadian mystery and crime writers, associated professionals, and others with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing. Our mission is to promote Canadian crime writing and to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers with librarians, readers, reviewers, fans of the genres, booksellers, and media.

  • David W. Barber, Hedshot & Mugshot
  • Paul Egli, PROPOFOL
  • Irene Fantopoulos, All the Evil Scatters & Luck of the Draw
  • C. Fitton, Her Dead Boyfriend
  • Alice Fitzpatrick, Secrets in the Water
  • Susan Goldenberg, Deadly Triangle: The Famous Architect, HIs Wife, Their Chauffeur and Murder Most Foul
  • Madeleine Harris-Callway, The 13th Letter
  • Gordon Jones
  • Sylvia Maultash Warsh, The Orphan
  • Jim McDonald, Altered Boy
  • Jaroslav (Jerry) Petryshyn, Burdens To Bury
  • Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, The Road to Heaven
  • Lorne Tepperman, Deadly Donation
  • David Wickenden, The Origami Deception