Tomas Hachard is the author of City in Flames. One of CBC’s Writers to Watch in 2023, his work has been published in The Atlantic, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Slate, NPR, Hazlitt and the Literary Review of Canada, among others. He lives in Toronto with his family.
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Tom McCamus has been a long-standing member of the acting ensembles of both the Shaw and Stratford Festivals and a familiar face on our movie and television screens for over three decades. On stage, Tom most recently starred in Things I Know to be True (Mirvish/Theatre Company), King Lear and Goneril (Soulpepper), Desire Under the […]
Thomas Wharton was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. His novels, stories and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, Italy and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. His collection of short fabulist fiction, The Logogryph, was […]
Terry Fallis grew up in Toronto and earned an engineering degree from McMaster University. His first novel, The Best Laid Plans, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads. His next two novels, The High Road and Up and Down were finalists for the Leacock Medal, […]
Taras Grescoe is the author of seven nonfiction books and a widely read commentator on the interplay of food, travel, and the environment. His journalism has been published in many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Guardian and National Geographic. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Canadian singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has been an internationally renowned and award-winning recording and touring artist for over twenty-five years. She has written and recorded six solo albums and two with her band, Shaye. A playwright, author, poet and mother, Tara lives in her home province of PEI and on Salt Spring Island, BC. Song of […]
Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, which started in the stone age as a pamphlet and is now a semi-annual hardcover. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics and McSweeneys Quarterly. The cartoonist has exhibited throughout the world in a variety of group and solo shows. […]
Sarah Gonzales is a Filipino-Canadian illustrator born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Canada. Sarah has been drawing ever since she can remember and has never stopped; she eventually went to the Alberta College of Art and Design, where she focused on illustration and design. Sarah lives in Montreal, Quebec.
From 1978 onward, Sharon, Lois & Bram were preeminent in all aspects of family entertainment across North America and other parts of the world. Together, the threesome produced 22 full-length albums, starting with their iconic, triple platinum One Elephant, Deux Éléphants. Lois passed away in 2015. Following Bram’s retirement from touring, and with his encouragement, […]
Priya Guns is a writer and actor from Scarborough, currently based in the UK. Her previous work has been published in Spring Magazine Canada, the Guardian and gal-dem. Before spending most of her time writing, Priya was a geography teacher and arts education organiser with experience in Sri Lanka, Palestine and Turkey. Your Driver is Waiting […]
Nicki Pau Preto is a fantasy author living just outside Toronto—though her dislike of hockey, snow, and geese makes her the worst Canadian in the country. She studied art and art history in university and worked as a graphic designer before becoming a writer full-time. She is the author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy […]
Omer Aziz is a lawyer, writer, and former foreign policy advisor in the administration of the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was born to working-class Pakistani parents in Toronto, Canada, and with the help of scholarships, became the first in his family to go to college in the West, studying in Paris, at Cambridge University […]
Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She has won Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine’s Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for […]
Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (an international bestseller and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), The Sisters Brothers (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize), and the […]
Elizabeth Ruth is the author of the novels Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, and Ten Good Seconds of Silence, as well as a plain language novella for adult literacy learners, Love You to Death. Her work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the City of Toronto Book Award, and more. CBC named her “One of the Ten Canadian Women […]
Rebecca Rosenblum‘s work has been nominated for the Trillium Award, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Danuta Gleed Award, and several others, as well as translated into Polish and French. Her short story collections are Once and The Big Dream and her first novel is So Much Love. These Days Are Numbered is her first […]
A new destination, a familiar spark . . . Two years have passed since Mira and Jake missed their flight and spent a magical 24 hours together in Paris. Sparks flew. Romance bloomed. But life got in the way. When they’re reunited for another whirlwind adventure, will they connect in the same way? Mira’s living […]
Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels A Highly Unlikely Scenario and Good on Paper. Her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. Cantor lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Vincent Lam’s first book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was adapted for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. The Headmaster’s Wager, Dr. Lam’s first novel, was shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award and the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. In 2011, he published a biography of Tommy Douglas, […]
Natalie MacLean, named the World’s Best Drinks Journalist at the World Food Media Awards, has also won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. She’s the author of Red, White and Drunk All Over and Unquenchable. She hosts the New York Times recommended podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk, and offers popular online wine and food pairing classes […]
Myisha Cherry is associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where she also directs the Emotion and Society Lab. She is the author of The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle and UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, which draws on her popular podcast UnMute. She […]
Mohamed Khelifi, a Tunisian writer and lawyer residing in New York, has published Escape in 2019 which won the Ramburg Award and also Texts Not Intended for Publishing in 2016. Mohamed has been actively involved in numerous human rights organizations in Tunisia and the United States and has published several articles in Arab and international […]
Moez Surani’s writing has been published internationally, including in Harper’s Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing 2016, Best Canadian Poetry and the Globe and Mail. He has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported research in India and East Africa. He has been an artist-in-residence in Finland, Italy, Latvia, Myanmar, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Banff Centre for the […]
Michel Jean is a writer, TV news anchor and investigative journalist. The author of 11 books, he also writes and curates short stories and has edited two French-language collections showcasing Indigenous writers: Amun (2016) and Wapke (2021). In his 2012 novel Elle et nous, he opened up about his own Indigenous origins for the very […]
