Ivy Le is a Vietnamese American comedian, actress and writer based in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed podcast FOGO: Fear of Going Outside, a nature show by the most reluctant host ever. FOGO is featured on Delta flights and recommended by The Guardian, CBC, Oprah and, inexplicably, Outside. She hosts Tongue […]
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Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer. It is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more […]
Nellwyn Lampert is a writer, editor and bookseller. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College and has taught writing and communications at Seneca Polytechnic. Nellwyn is the author of Every Boy I Ever Kissed (Dundurn Press) and co-contributing editor of Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World (Brindle & […]
Pamela Oakley is a writer, editor and educator. She has contributed to various publications over the years, and has worked as a copy editor and editor. She is an instructor at Seneca Polytechnic, where she offers classes on food/love/bad women in literature. Pamela is Nova Scotia born and Ontario raised and lives in Toronto’s west […]
Gillian Turnbull is the author of Sonic Booms: Making Music in an Oil Town. She is the director of Writing and Publishing at the University of King’s College in Halifax and has written for Chatelaine, Maisonneuve, The Walrus and The National Post.
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor […]
The perfect antidote to the toxicity of the current productivity narrative, this collection of essays on creativity features 21 Canadian and international writers, providing warmth, support, camaraderie, and empathy. In a world that worships productivity, creating for art’s sake is seen as romantic and nearly indefensible. For anyone who has ever struggled to honour their […]
Two women, living in America’s heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose. P is on deadline. She should be translating. Instead, she’s writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. A literary translator in Arkansas (of all places), she’s married to Mac, a professional feminist too slick for […]
Padma Viswanathan‘s books have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others. Her most recent books are Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and The Charterhouse of Padma: A Novel. Her short fiction, essays and translations have appeared in […]
The Poets & Writers 2019 Editor of the Year, Dawn Davis is the founding publisher of 37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has edited many prizewinning and New York Times bestselling books, including one of the 2023 New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the Year, Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon […]
Nicole Winstanley is the President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster Canada, a global leader in general interest publishing, where she oversees all publishing and operations across Canada. Prior to her appointment, Nicole served as Publisher of Penguin Canada and Vice President of Penguin Random House Canada. During her time at Penguin Canada, Nicole published […]
Rafał Czech is chief publishing officer of non-fiction literature department in “Otwarte” Publishing House from Cracow in Poland. Head of reportorial on-fiction imprint “Szczeliny”: (in translation “Gaps”), where he publishes books which in the best possible way explain complexities of the modern world by the voice of polish and foreign experts. Publisher of many non-fiction […]
Alexandra Heimann has worked at Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting since 2021. Previously, she worked at Mary Anne Thompson Associates and ICM Partners, and interned at Writers House. Alexandra also has extensive experience in the nonprofit and marketing industries. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with a double major in government and gender studies. Alexandra […]
In 2001, following a master’s degree in German and Russian literature and film studies, Marion Wichmann joined Ullstein in 2001 as a trainee in the paperback fiction department. She still loves acquiring commercial fiction, crime and fantasy from German and international authors, but her focus has shifted to upmarket and reading group fiction. As Editorial […]
Shelly Lesher is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (UWL) where she teaches undergraduate physics and conducts nuclear research. My Nuclear Life podcast is based on a class she taught at UWL about how physics impacts society, and society impacts physics. A version of this class was also taught as […]
Amal Elsana Alh’jooj is a founder of several NGOs, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation, and the recipient of many international prizes. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), she was included in Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017); and awarded the New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013). Amal […]
Carolyn Meyer, For more than 50 years, Carolyn Meyer built a career as a writer for children and young adults, traveling the world to do research for historical novels about people like Marie Antoinette and Charles Darwin. Then, with more than 60 books to her credit, Carolyn took her storytelling in a different direction. Her […]
Esau McCaulley, PhD is an author and The Jonathan Blanchard Associate Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College. His writing and speaking focus on New Testament Exegesis, African American Biblical Interpretation and Public Theology. He has authored numerous books including, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, […]
Shayla Lawson is an award-winning poet, journalist and disability advocate from Lexington, Kentucky. They are the author of four books including How To Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir.
Tarek El-Ariss is an author, scholar and the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2021, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his war memoir, Water on Fire (Other Press, 2024). Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy and comparative literature, […]
Jon Goode is an Emmy nominated writer raised in Richmond, VA and currently residing in Atlanta, GA. Jon’s work has been featured on CNN, HBO, VH1, MTV, TVOne and BET. His writing earned him the 2006 Promax Gold for the best copyright in North America, and in 2022 he won a gold American Advertising Award, […]
David Shribman, executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he writes a syndicated column in the United States and a separate column on for the Globe and Mail; has taught American politics at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at Montreal’s McGill University for the past five years; and is scholar in residence at […]
Dwayne Morgan, a 2023 appointee of the Order of Ontario and two-time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion, began his spoken word career in 1993. In 1994, he founded Up From The Roots to highlight African Canadian and urban artists. Morgan has earned multiple accolades, including the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Celebration of Cultural Life award, the […]
Dr. Afra Atiq is an Emirati poet, scholar and teaching artist. She has spent the last 10 years at the intersection of education and culture. She completed her PhD in Creative Industries at UAE University. She also earned a Master’s Degree in international relations and diplomacy. Over the years, she has mentored, and coached, students […]
