Lisa Fitterman is a reporter, an editor and a columnist. Her work appears in newspapers and magazines across Canada. Her feature on the corruption scandal in Quebec, published in the Walrus, won a gold medal at the National Magazine Awards. A native of Vancouver, Lisa Fitterman has spent most of her professional life in Montreal.
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Julian Sher is the author of eight books. His book Until You Are Dead: The Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott helped clear Truscott’s name. He co-authored two books on biker gangs, The Road to Hell and Angels of Death, which won the Crime Writers of Canada award and wrote two books on crimes against children, […]
Bianca Marais is the bestselling author of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh. She’s an award-winning creative writing instructor, and the founder and cohost of the popular podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, which is aimed at helping […]
Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness, Full Frontal TO: Exploring Toronto’s Vernacular Architecture and The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure. He’s a Toronto Star columnist, instructor at University of Toronto, a Senior Fellow at Massey College and a co-founder of Spacing magazine. […]
Born in the heart of rural Quebec, Justin Giovannetti Lamothe has worked as a journalist in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. His reporting has focused on the human drama at the centre of such major events as the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic and the wildfires in Fort McMurray, and has earned him an investigative award […]
M.K. Lobb is a fantasy writer with a love of all things dark—whether literature, humor, or general aesthetic. She is the author of Seven Faceless Saints, Disciples of Chaos, To Steal from Thieves, and To Deal with Kings. She lives in Ontario with her partner and cats and invites you to visit her online at […]
Shelley Wood is a Canadian writer and journalist. Her breakout debut novel, The Quintland Sisters, sold approximately 50,000 copies in North America and debuted as a #1 bestseller on the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail fiction lists, holding the top spot for five weeks, then ending the year as #7 on the list […]
Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, is a respected science commentator on CBC News and The National. He has been honoured with the 2001 Michael Smith Award for science promotion from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, as well as the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian […]
Myriam Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor-in-chief of Salt Hill Journal and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for […]
Jane Urquhart, one of Canada’s best loved writers, is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General’s Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications […]
Kelley Armstrong graduated with a degree in psychology and then studied computer programming. Now she is a full-time writer and parent, and she lives with her husband and three children in rural Ontario, Canada. She is the author of the Rockton mystery series featuring Detective Casey Duncan, which begins with City of the Lost, and […]
Catherine Mack (she/her) is the pseudonym for the USA Today and Globe & Mail bestselling author of over a dozen novels. Her books are approaching two million copies sold worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages including French, German, Portuguese, and Polish. Television rights to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies and […]
Kate Hilton is the co-author of Bury the Lead, the bestselling first novel in the Quill & Packet mystery series. She is also the author of the novels The Hole in the Middle, Just Like Family, and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area […]
Jeffrey Round is an author, playwright and filmmaker from Toronto. His previous books include the Dan Sharp Mysteries, the Bradford Fairfax Murder Mysteries and the acclaimed war novel The Honey Locust. He co-founded the Naked Heart Festival. Lake on the Mountain, the first Dan Sharp Mystery, won the Lambda Award for Best Gay Mystery and […]
Rick Mofina is a former journalist and bestselling author of more than 30 crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly 30 countries. He is a two-time winner of The Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence; a Barry Award winner; a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist. Library Journal […]
A.G.A Wilmot (BFA, MPub) is an award-winning writer and editor based out of Toronto. Their credits include myriad online and in-print publications and anthologies, and their first book, The Death Scene Artist, was published by Buckrider Books in 2018. Find them online at AndrewWilmot.ca. A.G.A Wilmot’s Festival appearance is generously supported by Toronto Lit Up.
Romi Moondi is a Canadian writer who primarily writes romantic comedies with the aim to make you laugh and activate your heartstrings. Her diverse romantic comedy 24 Hours in Paris received a Publishers Weekly starred review, was the 2022 Publishers Weekly #1 Summer Romance Read, and was selected as an official book club pick by […]
May Telmissany is an Egyptian Canadian novelist established in Canada since 1998. She is Associate professor of Cinema and Arabic Studies in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa. In 2021, Telmissany was awarded the prestigious medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic in recognition of her literary and academic […]
Ian Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother, Will, of How to Be a Canadian, which was shortlisted for the Leacock Medal and won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction. A writer and creative director in the film and television industry, […]
Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection Small Change was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, […]
Don Gillmor is the author of To the River, which won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He is the author of three novels: Long Change, Mount Pleasant and Kanata. He is also the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and has written nine books for children, two of which were […]
Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), as well as The Deep and Little Heaven. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most […]
Claudia Dávila writes, illustrates and designs picture books and graphic novels for kids of all ages, with stories and themes that encourage children to be strong, thoughtful, compassionate and responsible people. She is the former art director of Chirp and Chickadee magazines, and is the author-illustrator of Super Red Riding Hood (2016 Forest of Reading […]
Clara Dupuis-Morency was born in Quebec City and lives in Montreal. Her first novel, Mère d’invention, was a finalist for Prix des libraires du Québec, Prix du CALQ–Work by an Emerging Artist, and for the France-Québec prize, Les Rendez-vous du premier roman. She also works as a translator and is the mother of twin girls.
