Raye Anderson

Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who spent many enjoyable years running Theatre Schools and delivering creative learning programs for arts organizations, in Winnipeg, notably at Prairie Theatre Exchange, in Ottawa and Calgary. Her work has taken her across Canada, coast to coast, and up north as far as Churchill and Yellowknife. She’s also worked as far afield as the West Indies and her native Scotland. She has two daughters and one granddaughter.
Now, she lives in Manitoba’s beautiful Interlake and is part of a thriving arts community. She will read from “And We Shall Have Snow,” her first crime novel.

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Deborah L. Delaronde-Falk

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Deborah L. Delaronde-Falk lives in central Manitoba on a cattle ranch along the western shores of Lake Winnipegosis. She honours her Metis heritage by writing and publishing under her maiden name. Deborah’s twelve published stories (with the exception of Friendship Bay and The Rabbit’s Race) focus around Metis protagonists with story situations that she hopes will convey the way of life of the Metis people in both a historical and contemporary context. Deborah is the first recipient of the ‘Beatrice Mosionier Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award’ in 2015. She will read from Louis Riel Day: The Fur Trade Project, her soon to be published twelfth book.

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Kyle Penner

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Kyle Penner, the author, is the son-in-law to the illustrator, Patti Enns. He loves to tell canoeing stories almost as much as he actually loves canoeing. As a child, he started solo-paddling around Star Lake at the family cottage, but has since expanded his paddling destinations. His favourite places to canoe are the Whiteshell Provincial Park and the Kasakeemeemisikak Islands, and his favourite people to paddle with are his wife, Ashley, and his kids, Arianna, Zachary, and Milo. He currently lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, and wishes his ancestors hadn’t turned the original creek that ran through town into a drainage ditch. He will read from his comic memoir, Who Goes Canoeing with their Mother-In-Law?

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Michael Daher

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Michael Daher is a past president of the Winnipeg Classical guitar Society and teaches classical guitar at Saint John’s Ravenscourt and The University of Manitoba’s Preparatory Division. He has worked as an audio engineer since 1988 and owns and operates Goodfellas Productions where he engineers and produces numerous artists ranging from rock to classical genres, such as Skender Sefa, Ryszard Tyborowski, Willie Wiebe, The Milan Milosevic Trio, and Sid Robinovitch. He is also a renowned classical guitarist who has performed in numerous solo and ensemble concerts for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society in past seasons.