Workshop: “Career Pivots” with Donna Jones Alward

Discussion: Lana Button on Creating Stories for Young Readers, Early Childhood Education, and Supporting Children’s Social Emotional Development Through Stories

Reading & Q&A with Sue Sinclair

Reading & Q&A with Mark Blagrave

Workshop: Speaking for Writers with Teri Kingston

In Conversation: Donna Jones Alward and Renée Belliveau

In Conversation: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Reading & Q&A with Renée Belliveau

Interview & Kitchen Session: Khalil Akhtar

Workshop: “Writing the Sensory World” with Catherine Bush

Workshop: “Writer’s Logbook: Process and Documentation” with Phoebe Wang

Panel: “Essential Reading in a Polycrisis” with Dr. John McIntyre, Dr. Billy Johnson, Dr. Shannon Murray, and Dr. Renée Valiquette

Reading & Talk: Heather Thomas, “Reading and Roots: Scorpion Grass and Speculative Fiction in an Age of Polycrisis”

Reading & Talk: Catherine Bush, “Writing the Sea”

Workshop: “A Place at the Roundtable” with Stephany Peterson and Tony Klipin

Creative Presentations: Matthew Owen Gwathmey, “Nameless Bay;” Margaret Anne Smith, “Solstice at Kingsbrae” and “Crossing the Bar”

Paper Presentations: Jacqueline S. Ly, “Fiction-Powered History;” Michelle Lovegrove Thomson, “The Role of Libraries, Archives, and Bookstores in the Era of AI and LLMs: The Power of the Physical Book in Preserving Knowledge and History;” Phoebe Wang, “The Rising Tide of Community and Its Many Coloured Rafts;” Shane Neilson, “‘Poetry’ and ‘Medicine’: An Odyssey”