It was a miserably snowy afternoon for a press conference in Toronto yesterday, but Luminato CEO Janice Price soldiered ahead anyway, making a formal announcement of the festival’s 2008 literary line-up in front of a small crowd of attendees.

There are four major programs this year: a spotlight on new South Asian writing, featuring readings by Shyam Selvadurai, Padma Viswanathan, Jaspreet Singh, and U.K. author Daljit Nagra; a look at politically themed graphic novels, with Bernice Eisenstein, U.S. artist Spain Rodriguez, and others; a celebration of Nobel-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, with David Bezmozgis and U.S. author Dara Horn; and an evening of diverse voices (organized in partnership with Diaspora Dialogues), including Judy Fong Bates, Alissa York, and several others.

The Luminato website doesn’t seem to have been updated with all of this info yet, but you can see some of the details here. The festival runs from June 6-15.