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The Fan Brothers

Terry, Eric and Devin grew up in Toronto, where they continue to live and work. Recipients of the prestigious Sendak Fellowship, Kate Greenaway Medal nominees and Governor General’s Literary Award nominees, Terry and Eric are the author/illustrators of the critically acclaimed books The Night Gardener and Ocean Meets Sky, and the illustrators of the bestselling Chris […]

Jordan Scott

Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of two National Film Board of Canada projects, Flub and Utter: a poetic memoir of the mouth and STUTTER. Scott was the recipient of the 2018 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry […]

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels, including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home and Hot Milk, and two volumes of memoir, Things I Don’t Want to Know and The Cost of Living. Both Swimming Home and Hot Milk were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short story […]

Andrew O’Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan, a Scottish novelist and essayist, is a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a three-time nominee for the Booker Prize, the editor-at-large of the London Review of Books, and a contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He lives in London. Andrew O’Hagan’s Festival […]

Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Celina Caesar-Chavannes is a business consultant, coach and international speaker. She currently serves as the senior advisor at EDI Initiatives and adjunct lecturer at Queen’s University, and her book Can You Hear Me Now? was published by Penguin Random House Canada in February 2021. She was the former member of Parliament for Whitby, Parliamentary Secretary […]

Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee is a biographer and critic whose work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald. She has also written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth and Willa Cather, and a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts. She was awarded the Biographers’ Club Prize for Exceptional Contribution to Biography in 2018. She is a Fellow […]

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of five books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and her work has appeared […]

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Sharon Bala

Sharon Bala’s second novel, Good Guys, was published in January 2026. Publishers Weekly calls it “quietly profound” and a “blackly comic tale.” Her best-selling debut novel, The Boat People, won a Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was short listed for several awards and is in translation […]

Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is an essayist, novelist, editor and children’s author. Her books have been translated into 18 languages, published in over 25 countries. Her non-fiction books include the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Unearthing (Knopf and Scribner, 2023). She teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at […]

Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor who works across genres. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine, and The World After Rain, Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among […]

Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. In 2024, her novel Held was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Prix […]

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Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson is the author of Rust and Bone, adapted into a Golden Globe–nominated film, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated novel Cataract City. His works also include The Saturday Night Ghost Club, finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the bestselling memoir Precious Cargo, a Canada Reads finalist. Under the pen name Nick […]

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris […]

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller […]

André Alexis

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. He is the author of A Quincunx, comprised of five novels: Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Days by Moonlight, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Pastoral; The Hidden Keys; and Ring. His […]