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Toronto
Toronto
Bryn Turnbull is a writer of historical fiction with a penchant for fountain pens. Equipped with a master's of letters in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews, a master's of professional communication from Ryerson University and a bachelor's degree in English…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Neil Turner is the author of the gripping and highly-acclaimed Tony Valenti crime and legal thriller novels. He first lost himself in the pages of books as a five-year-old when Beatrix Potter and Thornton W. Burgess immersed him in the worlds of Jerry Muskrat, Peter Rabbit, and…
REGINA
REGINA
Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Walrus, Briarpatch Magazine, Adda, and on CBC Saskatchewan. She's had short stories in The Journey Prize Stories 30 and 33, as well as in Grain Magazine and Exile Quarterly. Her…
Toronto
Toronto
Arnold Tweed is a son of the prairies. He grew up on a farm in southern Manitoba, went to High School in Killarney, and graduated from Brandon College in 1959. His early ambition was to return to the farm, but he got side-tracked and graduated with an MD from the University of…
Daniel Scott Tysdal is the ReLit Award-winning author of three books of poetry, the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems, and the TEDx talk, “Everything You Need to Write a Poem (and How It Can Save a Life).” His most recent works include the…
Toronto
Lampman
Lampman
Maureen Ulrich is an author, playwright, and poet from SE Saskatchewan. When not writing, she enjoys attending hockey, baseball, and football games and riding her motorcycle. 
Toronto
Toronto
Nadia Devi Umadat is a Canadian social worker of Indo-Guyanese heritage, born in Toronto. She has a Master's Degree in Social Work and a Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies. As a Youth Mental Health Counsellor she supported newcomer and refugee families who had…
Toronto
Toronto
Rebecca (she/her) born and raised in Toronto now divides her time between Ontario and the Monadnock region of new Hampshire. A fierce reader as a youngling, she now writes primarily for kids. She has four published children's books. She spends as much time as she can outdoors…
P O Box 310 Colborne
P O Box 310 Colborne
I was born near Kenogamisis Lake in the far north of Ontario, and now live in Northumberland County Ontario. I have written poetry, non-fiction, and primarily fiction. I was also the editor of the most recent Penguin Anthology of Canadian Short Stories. My first novel "The…
Mission
Mission
Born in Montreal, Deborah Vail is a descendant of Irish, and French-Canadian story tellers. After a successful career in education, she completed an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia in 2020. Her short stories, creative non-fiction, book reviews,…
Toronto
Toronto
Jacqueline Valencia is a Toronto-based writer and earned her Honours BA in English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of various essays and poetry books, including There Is No Escape Out of Time (Insomniac Press) and Lilith (Desert Pets Press, 2018). She is a…
Victoria
Victoria
W. D. Valgardson (Bill), born in Manitoba, raised in Gimli, a predominantly Icelandic immigrant community. Commercial fishing on Lake Winnipeg was the major form of employment. Earned a B.A. in Arts, 1961. Taught high school in Manitoba. Earned a B.Ed. Attended the U. of Iowa…
Calgary
Calgary
Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist and researcher. She is author of 29 leads to love (Inanna 2021), the 2022 Winner of The International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry. Her other published poetry collections are Cradles (Daraja Press 2017), land of the sky (2016), Letter…
Calgary
Calgary
Born and grew up in central Alberta, studied at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The author of five novels (Judith, The Tent Peg, No Fixed Address, Places far from Ellesmere, Restlessness), two books of criticism, and many non-fiction and critical texts, especially works…
Ottawa, unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation
Ottawa, unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation
JEAN VAN LOON has published short prose, poetry, and reviews in Canadian literary magazines across the country. Her second poetry book, Nuclear Family, was published April 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press and won the 2023 Ottawa Book Award. Her first collection, Building…
Hamilton
Hamilton
  Brent van Staalduinen is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, and the short story collection CUT ROAD. He is also an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in journals on both…
Kelowna
Kelowna
Johanna lives in Kelowna B.C., Canada, and Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. She is an immigrant from The Netherlands (1982) and a Canadian citizen. She began writing short stories in her late fifties as a child protection social worker and discovered her love of writing. Some of her…
Montreal
Montreal
Carly is a Montreal-based prose writer, translator, and English teacher. In 2018, her short fiction was longlisted for Writer's Trust Journey Prize and won first place in the Humber Literary Review's Emerging Fiction Writers contest.  Her writing has appeared inMaisonneuve, THIS…