Kern Carter is the author of five novels, including Beauty Scars, Boys And Girls Screaming and And Then There Was Us. In addition to his writing, Kern writes and produces film and also teaches professional writing at a local college. He is committed to supporting emerging writers and helping them find their voice. He lives in […]
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Karma Brown is the author of ten novels, including Mother is Watching, the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life […]
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 […]
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. […]
Vikki VanSickle is the author of a number of acclaimed novels for children including P.S. Tell No One, Words That Start With B, Summer Days, Starry Nights, and the 2018 Red Maple award-winning The Winnowing. She has also written the picture books If I Had a Gryphon, Teddy Bear of the Year, and Anonymouse. Vikki […]
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 […]
A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of ten national bestsellers—six of them #1 bestsellers— all published by McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, won the 2008 Leacock Medal, the 2011 edition of CBC Canada Reads, and was adapted as […]
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 […]
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, […]
Kai Thomas is a writer, carpenter, and land steward. He is Afro-Canadian, born and raised in Ottawa, descended from Trinidad and the British Isles. In the Upper Country is his first novel and was a national bestseller.
Joel A. Sutherland has won several children’s choice awards, and his writing has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies and lives in southeastern Ontario, where he is always on the lookout for things that go bump in the night.
Janika Oza is the winner of a 2022 O. Henry Award and the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology, Catapult, The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review and Anomaly, among others. A chapter of this novel was longlisted for the 2019 […]
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, […]
Cristina Quintero is a first-generation Colombian-Canadian of both Afro-Colombian and Indigenous-Colombian descent. As a child of immigrants, she understands the importance of stories that go beyond trauma and struggle and instead highlight the everyday joy that is created within immigrant communities. Cristina lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
Charlie Foran was born and raised in Toronto. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University College, Dublin, and has taught in China, Hong Kong and Canada. He has published 12 books, including five novels. His fiction, non-fiction and journalism have all won awards. Charlie has also made radio documentaries for the […]
Ben Clanton is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Narwhal and Jelly series. His other books for children include The Greatest in the World!, the first book in the Tater Tales series; Mo’s Mustache; Vote for Me!; Rot, the Cutest in the World!; Boo Who?; It Came in the Mail; Something […]
Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Fiction Award for her novel The Gathering, which became a longtime national bestseller in Canada. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather and her most recent novel was the internationally acclaimed The Forgotten Waltz, awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in […]
Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her debut novel The Lost Ones (US) / Eyes Like Mine (UK) won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award […]
Joy Fielding is the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Is Watching, Now You See Her, Still Life, Mad River Road, See Jane Run and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; […]
Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and Canada Reads (2024). It won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Mutonji was a recipient of the […]
Alexander MacLeod’s short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and The O Henry Prize Stories. His first collection, Light Lifting (Biblioasis), was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2021, he and his friend, Andrew Steeves of Gaspereau Press, were awarded the Lieutenant Governor […]
Martha Wainwright is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter, with over two decades of industry experience. Critically-acclaimed for the rawness and emotional honesty of both her vocals and lyrics, her albums include: Martha Wainwright (2005); I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too (2008); Come Home to Mama (2012); the JUNO-nominated Songs in the Dark (2015), […]
J.M. Miro is the author of the international bestseller Ordinary Monsters. He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest, and also writes under the name Steven Price.
