10th annual Sunburst Award Celebration

Originally from Montreal, writer Holly Bennett is the editor-in-chief of Today's Parent special editions and the author of The Warrior's Daughter and the Bonemender series. Set in the Iron Age of Ireland, Bennett’s Shapeshifter follows a young woman’s journey to escape a dark sorcerer.

Born in Des Moines and raised in Omaha, Erin Bow studied particle physics in university, eventually working at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. With a passion for writing, she switched careers and published two volumes of poetry and a memoir. Her poetry has won a CBC Literary Award, among others. Inspired by Russian fairy tales, Bow takes readers on a magical adventure featuring a talking cat, in her debut novel, Plain Kate.

Paul Glennon (Canada/UK) is the author of Bookweird and The Dodecahedron, which was a finalist for the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for English Fiction. Glennon presents the next novel in his trilogy, Bookweirder, a continuation of Norman’s story which reveals the dark history involving his family and the unusual things that keep happening to him around books.

Guy Gavriel Kay was born in Saskatchewan and raised in Manitoba. Kay became Principal Writer and Associate Producer for the CBC radio series, The Scales of Justice, and he has written social and political commentary for the National Post, Globe and Mail and Guardian. Kay is the recipient of the International Goliardos Prize for his contributions to the literature of the fantastic. Inspired by the history of Tang Dynasty China, Kay presents Under Heaven, a story combining fantasy, history, love, and adventure.

Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author with over a hundred story sales in 29 countries and 24 languages around the world. He was a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and has won the Aurora Award twice for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Fiction by a Canadian. His latest collection, Chimerascope, contains 16 stories which touch on love, life and aliens.

Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning Canadian novelist, short story writer and playwright. The first two novels in The Steele Chronicles, Defining Diana and Steel Whispers were both nominated for Canada's Aurora Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. Trenholm presents Stealing Home, the conclusion to Steele’s investigation of Nancy’s disappearance.

Robert Paul Weston (Canada/UK) is the author of the award-winning children's novel, Zorgamazoo. His fiction has been nominated for the Journey Prize in Canada and the Fountain Award for Speculative Literature in the United States. Weston has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and currently lectures on creative writing at the University of Toronto. Weston’s latest book for young adults, Dust City, tells the story of a young wolf’s attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s past, and how he finds himself while on this dangerous journey.