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.

Former advertising copywriter and Gemini-award winning scriptwriter, Vicki Grant has been called “a superb storyteller” and “one of the funniest writers working today.” Her young adult novels have been translated into twenty languages and made many ‘best of’ lists both here and internationally. Her latest kid-lit mystery DEATH BY WHOOPEE CUSHION was selected a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard. Her adult mystery THESE ARE THE FIREWORKS was described by the Globe and Mail as “a winner. (Grant) has a gift for character-building and it pairs brilliantly with the twisty plot.” Vicki lives in Halifax.

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.

Vivian Zhou is a Chinese-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator living in Halifax. She loves writing young adult stories filled with magic, and her work often blends fantasy with personal narratives. Best known for the graphic novels Atana and the Firebird and Atana and the Jade Mermaid, she received the Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia Film in 2025.

Writer, director, and comedian, Bryn Pottie’s debut novel, The Great Lunenburglary, was long listed for the Leacock Award for Humor and is a hilarious love letter to his hometown.