Victoria Hetherington is the author of two novels: Mooncalves (Now or Never Books, 2019), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon First Novel Award, and Autonomy (Dundurn and Rare Machines, 2022). She is also the author of Into The Mist, a non-fiction historical account that explores a decades-long mystery in rural Saskatchewan. Hetherington lives in […]
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Esmond Fountain is a storyteller/comedian based in Brooklyn who firmly believes that an order of French fries qualifies as a meal. Esmond is a military brat, so you’re better off not asking him where he’s from. As a CMB (Certified Mommas Boy), Esmond never lets 24 hours pass without talking to Tammy. There are less […]
Kelli Dunham is the nonbinary ex-nun nurse trauma-informed comedian so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli has appeared on Showtime’s Penn & Teller Bulls**t, BBC-4’s Sunday Religious Program and the Discovery Channel, and is the author of seven hilarious non-fiction books about not humorous subjects including puberty, grief and death. Kelli’s writing has appeared on Autostraddle, […]
Deonna Marie Cattledge is a vocalist, storyteller, actress & intuitive vocal coach from Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the writer & creator of The Deonna Marie Experience: From the Crack House to the Opera House, a one-woman show about her life, which debuted this summer at Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City. Deonna Marie is a […]
Patrick de Belen is a Toronto-based Filipinx-Canadian storyteller, arts educator, spoken word poet, writer and filmmaker. He is most known for his poetic collaborations with the Toronto Raptors, the NFL, CBC, his 2 spoken word EPs and multiple cine-poems he wrote and directed himself. He was the youngest poet to win a national poetry slam […]
A lifetime immersed in the performing arts has made Joshua “Scribe” Watkis entirely devoted to the gift of storytelling. Through Spoken Word Poetry and Hip-Hop, he has taken thousands into his world to experience it as he does. The Scarborough born poet has performed on stages across Canada for a decade, appeared on CBC’s Poetic […]
Alannah Fricker is an abolitionist community organizer, visual artist, caregiver, harm reduction activist and second-generation settler living in Toronto/Tkaronto. She is a founding member of Students for Harm Reduction, the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP) and the Abolition Coalition, and is actively involved in a wide variety of mutual aid, popular education, direct action and […]
V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (a New York Times Editors’ Choice) and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times and The Best American […]
Masha Gessen is the author of 12 books, including the National Book Award–winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at the New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen is Distinguished Professor […]
Chris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette, a leading global marketing agency. She offers speaking engagements on leadership, diversity, inclusion, and trans rights. Chris lives in Montreal.
Craig Stephenson is a Licensed Psychoanalyst and a certified Jungian analyst. He studied Analytical Psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich, and Group Psychotherapy, Sociometry and Psychodrama at the Institute for Psychodrama, Zümikon, Switzerland. He received his doctorate from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. He worked in private practice in […]
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a […]
M.G. Vassanji won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His novel The Assassin’s Song was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Most recently, his […]
Erin Noteboom is a physicist turned poet turned children’s novelist, whose honours include the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the CBC Literary Award for poetry and a Governor General’s Award. She has previously published two volumes of poetry, Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska (2003) and Seal Up the Thunder (2005), as well as a […]
Viola Di Grado is an Italian novelist whose critically acclaimed books are published in 15 countries. Born in 1987 in Sicily, she earned an MA in East Asian philosophies at the University of London, where she lives. Acclaimed by Garzanti dictionary as “one of the most representative writers of the decade”, she was the youngest […]
For over 40 years, Richard Rose has been a distinguished director in the Canadian theatre community, as well as having directed internationally. He served as the Artistic Director of the Tarragon Theatre, since 2002 (now retired) and was the Founding Artistic Director of the highly regarded Necessary Angel Theatre Company (1978 – 2002). He has […]
One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues. A DREAM COMES ASHORE Thorfinn’s travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in […]
Two best friends, five hot guys, one dream vacation. What could possibly go wrong? Lori is beautiful, smart, and athletic. The one thing she can’t do is speak up for herself: she can’t stand up to a creepy guy at the gym, she can’t speak to her crush, and she certainly can’t tell her parents […]
Jessica Cunsolo’s young adult series, With Me, has amassed over 215 million reads on Wattpad since she posted her first story, She’s With Me, on the platform in 2015. The novel has won a Watty award, has been published in multiple languages, and is in development with Wattpad WEBTOON Studios. Jessica lives just outside of Toronto.
In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada’s most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines. It’s 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of […]
Wild Fires is Sophie Jai’s debut novel. It is the winner of the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award and 2019 Borough Press x The Good Literary Agency Prize. It is currently longlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards, was shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy […]
Zalika Reid-Benta is the author of Frying Plantain, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Frying Plantain was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and it was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, the Toronto Book Award, the White Pine Award and the Evergreen Forest […]
William Ping is a Chinese-Canadian writer from Newfoundland. After completing his Master of Arts at Memorial University in 2020, he was named a Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies. He received the 2022 Cox & Palmer Creative Writing Award as well as the 2021 Landfall Trust. His debut novel, Hollow Bamboo, which he wrote […]
Chantel Guertin is the author of nine novels, including the instant national bestseller Two for the Road, Instamom and Stuck in Downward Dog for adults and the Pippa Greene YA series. She has worked as a beauty expert on Canada’s number‐one daytime talk show, The Marilyn Denis Show, and as an editor of various magazines. […]
