Brian Tucker is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Big White Knuckles was a finalist for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award [1] and the ReLit Award for Fiction [2] in 2008.
The novel was published in 2007 by Vagrant Press. [3] Originally from New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Tucker was living in Trout Brook, New Brunswick at the time of the novel's publication. [4]
David Adams Richards is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.
David Bergen is a Canadian novelist. He has published nine novels and two collections of short stories since 1993 and is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His 2005 novel The Time in Between won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and he was a finalist again in 2010 and 2020, making the long list in 2008.
Valerie Anne Sherrard is a Canadian author of books for children and young adults including the novels The Glory Wind, Kate, Speechless and the Shelby Belgarden mystery series.
Adam Lewis Schroeder is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Zoe Whittall is a Canadian poet, novelist and TV writer. She has published four novels and three poetry collections to date.
George K. Ilsley is a Canadian writer. He has published a collection of short stories, Random Acts of Hatred, which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood, and a novel, ManBug. His new memoir is The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About.
Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer. To date they have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection.
Rabindranath Maharaj, not to be confused with Rabi Maharaj, is a Trinidadian-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the Canadian literary journal Lichen. His novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy won the 2010 Trillium Book Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award, and several of his books have been shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Daniel Allen Cox is a Canadian author and screenwriter. Cox's novels Shuck and Krakow Melt were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award and the ReLit Award.
The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey.
Ian Williams is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Nancy Jo Cullen is a Canadian poet and short story writer, who won the 2010 Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer. The jury, consisting of writers Brian Francis, Don Hannah and Suzette Mayr, described Cullen in the award citation as a writer "who feels like a friend", and who "tackles dark corners without false dramatics or pretensions. There is a genuine realness in her language."
Richard Van Camp is a Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ writer of the Dene nation from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. He is best known for his 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed, which was adapted into a film by director Anita Doron in 2012.
Roberta Rees is a Canadian writer from Alberta.
Michael Kenyon is a Canadian writer from British Columbia, who won the ReLit Award for fiction in 2010 for his novel The Beautiful Children. He was also a ReLit poetry nominee in the same year for The Last House.
Corey Redekop is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2012 novel Husk, which was a finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2013.
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017.
Amy Jones is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel We're All in This Together was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2017.
Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog.
Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.