2026 Lineup

The author of 19 works of fiction and non fiction, Stephen Kimber, is an award winning and bestselling selling journalist and author. He was appointed a member of the Order of Nova Scotia and has been honoured with a Legacy Award from the Atlantic Book Awards Society, for making “a lasting contribution to the development of the literary arts in Atlantic Canada.”

C.S. Porter is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose latest book, Salt on Her Tongue, was named the Best Canadian Crime Novel, while his debut novel, Beneath Her Skin, won the Crime Writers of Canada Howard Engel Award. They live by the sea.

Vicki Grant is the author of twenty-one books, including 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You, which has been translated into seventeen languages, and A Green Velvet Secret, which was selected as a 2024 White Raven notable book by the International Youth Library and was named a Best Book for Kids by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Her novels have won The Red Maple, The Arthur Ellis Award, and CBC’s Young Canada Reads. Her latest book, Death By Whoopee Cushion, is a 2025 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection.

B.R. Myers is the author of the International bestselling and Mary Higgins Clark Award winning novel, A Dreadful Splendour. Her nine books for teens were top picks by the School Library Journal. The Third Wife of Faraday House, historical fiction, was a Readers’ Choice Nominee for the Atlantic Book Awards. As “Daphne Dubois” she writes contemporary romance in Canadian settings. She lives in Halifax with her family — with a stack of books always by her bed.

Jane Doucet is a journalist and author of four books including her first murder mystery, Blood Typed, which launched in May. She made a splash here with Lost & Found in Lunenburg and Fishnets & Fantasies, about a small town sex shop in town. Jane lives in Halifax with her husband.