Yukon Writers Fest 2025 - Closing Reception in Haines Junction

This annual event is a co-production between Yukon Public Libraries and Yukon Education, and includes the Young Authors Conference at FH Collins (May 1 to 2).

Please join us at these free public Yukon Writers Fest events

• April 30, Whitehorse 
  Opening Reception at Town Hall, Gold Rush Inn
  Doors open at 6:30 pm, event starts at 7 pm
• May 3, Haines Junction
  Closing Reception at St. Elias Convention Centre
  7 pm 

Special guests

• Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction. Pauls has created four graphic novels: Dakwäkãda Warriors (2019), Pizza Punks (2021), Kwändür (2022) and We See Stars Only At Night (2025).
• Chelsea Vowel is a queer, disabled, nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language instructor, public intellectual, writer, and activist educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, futurisms, and resurgence. She is the author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada and the short-story collection Buffalo is the New Buffalo.
• Kevin Sylvester is author/illustrator of more than thirty books for kids. His latest novel is Apartment 713 – a time travel mystery.
• Patti Flather is an award-winning Whitehorse writer and theatre artist. Patti’s latest work Pieces of Paradise is an audio play about humans moving beyond adversity, helped by their animal witnesses. Teresa Wong is the author of the acclaimed graphic memoirs All Our Ordinary Stories (2024) and Dear Scarlet (2019), both longlisted for CBC Canada Reads.