Welcome to the 2016 Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair

We are delighted to launch our new website for Prose in the Park 2016. Watch this space as new authors join our preliminary line-up of great panelists. The festival is devoted to bringing together both established and emerging authors from across Canada. We are pleased to have some of the best authors of Montreal joining the upcoming festival, particularly Heather O'Neill, whose Daydreams of Angels should be required reading for every lover of Canadian literature. From Kingston, we will be joined by Steven Heighton, a brilliant novelist and poet, whose Every Lost Country takes readers a fantastic adventure to far-off Tibet. From Toronto, we have Andrew Pyper, the Stephen King of Canada, and Ian Hamilton, whose Ava Lee crime series are a wonderful bridge between Canada and contemporary Asia. From Vancouver, Dietrich Kalteis is coming. His fast-paced noir crime set in the West Coast is some of the most enjoyable crime fiction on the market today. To celebrate Canadian writers of Caribbean heritage, we will be offering you a remarkable panel, including 2015 Giller prize judge Cecil Foster. There is also no shortage of wonderful Ottawa authors, including 2015 Governor General Award winner for YA fiction, Caroline Pignat, Canada's premier fantasy writer Charles de Lint and celebrated literary fiction writers, Alan Cumyn and Mark Frutkin. And we are still organizing our Francophone panels, which offer a wide selection of brilliant prose en français.

Visit our 2016 programme page here for the panels confirmed to date.

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