Daniel Zomparelli is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] He is married to American screenwriter Gabe Liedman. [2]
A 2006 graduate of Simon Fraser University, he worked for the magazine Adbusters before becoming founding editor of the poetry magazine Poetry Is Dead. He has since published the poetry collections Davie Street Translations [1] and Rom Com, [3] and the short fiction collection Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person. [4] Everything Is Awful was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, [5] and won the 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction. [6]
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided.
Priscila Uppal was a Canadian poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright.
Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France.
Aislinn Hunter is a Canadian poetry and fiction author.
Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer. To date they have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection.
Cathleen With is a Canadian writer and author. Skids, her debut short story collection about Vancouver street kids from the Davie Village to the Downtown Eastside, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the 2007 ReLit Awards. She was also shortlisted for the 2005 Western Magazine Award for her story "Carny", which was featured in Humanist Perspectives.
Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kaie Kellough is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised in Calgary, Alberta, and in 1998 moved to Montreal, Quebec, where he lives.
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.
Jen Currin is an American/Canadian poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her 2010 collection The Inquisition Yours won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry in 2011, and was shortlisted for that year's Lambda Literary Award, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and ReLit Award. Her 2014 collection School was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award.
Alex Leslie is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers from the Writers Trust of Canada in 2015. Leslie's work has won a National Magazine Award, the CBC Literary Award for fiction, the Western Canadian Jewish Book Award and has been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize for fiction and the Kobzar Prize for contributions to Ukrainian Canadian culture, as one of the prize's only Jewish nominees.
Catherine Owen is a Canadian poet, writer, and author from Vancouver, who now lives in Edmonton.
Gillian Jerome is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor and instructor. She won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2009 and the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010. Jerome is a co-founder of Canadian Women In Literary Arts (CWILA), and also serves as the poetry editor for Geist. She is a lecturer in literature at the University of British Columbia and also runs writing workshops at the Post 750 in downtown Vancouver.
Norma Dunning is an Inuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories. In the same year, she won the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Howard O'Hagan Award for the short story "Elipsee", and was a shortlisted finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Award. She published in 2020 a collection of poetry and stories entitled Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity.
Martin West is a Canadian writer. He is most noted for his 2017 novel Long Ride Yellow, which won the 2018 ReLit Award for Fiction.
Rhonda Ganz is a Canadian poet and illustrator from Victoria, British Columbia, whose debut poetry collection Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry won the 2018 ReLit Award for poetry. It was a finalist for the 2018 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. The book was also shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2018.
David Huebert is a Canadian writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Clint Burnham is a Canadian writer and academic.