A. F. Moritz is widely considered one of the defining and most beloved lyric poets of his generation. His many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize and an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He currently serves as the 6th […]
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Joni Murphy is a writer from New Mexico who lives in New York. Her debut novel, Double Teenage, was published by Book*hug Press in 2016. It was named one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of the Year. Her latest novel is Talking Animals.
Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Sarah Leipciger lives in London, U.K., with her three children. She is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University and also teaches at City Lit. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Fish Prize and the Bridport Prize. She is the author of the critically acclaimed […]
Amanda Leduc‘s essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the USA and the UK. She is the author of the novels The Miracles of Ordinary Men and the forthcoming The Centaur’s Wife. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity […]
Seth Klein served for 22 years as the founding British Columbia Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a research institute committed to social, economic and environmental justice. He is now a freelance writer, speaker and policy consultant, and an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program. His book, A Good War: […]
Kaie Kellough is a novelist, sound performer and poet. His poetry collection Magnetic Equator won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize and his novel Accordéon (2016) was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His most recent collection of short stories is Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020) published by Véhicule Press. His work migrates between poetry […]
Daniel Kalla is an internationally bestselling author of many novels, including The Darkness in the Light, Lost Immunity, The Last High and We All Fall Down. Kalla practices emergency medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia. Visit him at DanielKalla.com or follow him on Twitter @DanielKalla.
Frances Itani has written 18 books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth […]
Saleema Nawaz is the author of two novels, most recently, Songs for the End of the World. Her first novel, Bone and Bread, won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Canada Reads competition. She is also the author of the short story collection Mother […]
Katrina Onstad is a multiple award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, New York Times Magazine, the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Katrina’s latest novel, Stay Where I Can See You, […]
Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning novelist and poet and the author of seven highly acclaimed books including the novel The World Before Us, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice book, a Guardian, Globe and Mail and NPR Book of the Year, and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her work has been […]
Helen Humphreys is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC’s Canada Reads. […]
Michelle Parise is an award-winning journalist, writer and performer. She has worked for the CBC for more than two decades, in everything from children’s television to music programming and documentary making, as well as at the helm of many national radio programs. She’s also a soccer player, parent and champion campfire builder. The daughter of Italian immigrants, […]
Hayley Gene Penner grew up sharing the stage with her father, renowned children’s entertainer, Fred Penner. She writes with some of the biggest artists and producers in the music industry. Her debut album, and her memoir’s namesake, People You Follow, were both released in 2020. She splits her time between Winnipeg and Los Angeles.
Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is a queer woman of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent who married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2022, and the film adaptation, for which she wrote the screenplay, won eight Canadian Screen Awards. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto […]
Mathew Henderson grew up in Tracadie, Prince Edward Island. After he graduated high school, Henderson worked summers in the oil fields of Saskatchewan and Alberta. His experiences there provided inspiration for his first book of poetry, The Lease, which was a finalist for both the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial […]
Michael ‘Piecez’ Prosserman found his passion for breakdancing at a very young age. By the time he was three, Michael was already standing on his head while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Michael is a university instructor, mental health advocate, and professional speaker, specializing in start-ups, team culture, fundraising, and succession. He is the founder of UNITY […]
As a screenwriter and story editor, Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Ennis Esmer, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd and Michael Cera, and for such series as Hudson & Rex, The Eleventh Hour, Life With Derek, Heartland, The Jane Show, […]
Beatriz Hausner has published several poetry collections, including Sew Him Up, Enter the Raccoon and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. Her books have been published internationally and translated into several languages, including her native Spanish, French, Dutch and most recently Greek. Her translations of Latin American surrealists like César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Jorge Cáceres and Aldo […]
Kate Pullinger grew up in British Columbia. In 2009, her novel The Mistress of Nothing won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects include the ground-breaking title for children Inanimate Alice and, most recently, a ghost story for smartphones, Breathe. Flight Paths: A Networked Novel was the inspiration for her 2014 novel, Landing Gear. She is currently Professor of […]
James Raffan is a prolific writer, speaker, geographer and author of numerous bestselling books, including his first work of creative nonfiction, Ice Walker. He writes for national media outlets and has produced documentaries for CBC Radio and the Discovery Channel. He is an international fellow of the Explorers Club, a past chair of the Arctic Institute of North America and a fellow and […]
Samra Habib is a writer, photographer, and activist. As a journalist she’s covered topics ranging from fashion trends and Muslim dating apps to the rise of Islamophobia in the US. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Advocate, and her photo project, “Just Me and Allah,” has been featured […]
Marlowe Granados is a writer and filmmaker. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University. Her writing has appeared in FASHION Magazine and The Baffler, where she is the resident advice columnist. Her short film, The Leaving Party, premiered in 2020 and received notice at the Canada Short Films Festival, […]
Michelle Good is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After three decades of working with Indigenous communities and organizations, she obtained her law degree. She earned her MFA in creative writing at UBC while still practising law. Her novel, Five Little Indians, was nominated for […]
