Naomi Klein is a Canadian author,social activist,and filmmaker known for her political analyses;support of ecofeminism,organized labour,criticism of corporate globalization,fascism and capitalism. In 2021,Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice,joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the newly launched Centre for Climate Justice since 2021.
Di Brandt often stylized as di brandt,is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg,Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
Lorna Crozier,is a Canadian poet,author,and former chair of the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. She is the author of twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 as one of Canada's pre-eminent poets and for her teaching. Crozier is credited as Lorna Uher on some of her earlier works.
The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers. Alongside the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Giller Prize,it is considered one of the three main awards for Canadian fiction in English. Its eligibility criteria allow for it to garland collections of short stories as well as novels;works that were originally written and published in French are also eligible for the award when they appear in English translation.
The Writers' Trust of Canada is a registered charity which provides financial support to Canadian writers.
The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award,presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer.
Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer and editor established in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Charlotte Gray,CM is a British-born Canadian historian and author. The Winnipeg Free Press has called her "one of Canada's best loved writers of popular history and literary biography."
Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet,biographer,and anthologist. She is also a professor emerita at University of Toronto.
Martha Baillie is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Kathleen Winter is an English Canadian short story writer and novelist.
Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer. His debut book,SacréBlues,won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction,Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction,and McAuslan First Book Prize. His fourth book,Bottomfeeder,won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction,awarded to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer,in 2008,as well as the IACP Award for Literary Food Writing.
This Changes Everything:Capitalism vs. the Climate is Naomi Klein's fourth book;it was published in 2014 by Simon &Schuster. Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed in the current era of neoliberal market fundamentalism,which encourages profligate consumption and has resulted in mega-mergers and trade agreements hostile to the health of the environment.
Lynette Loeppky is a Canadian writer,who published the memoir Cease in 2015. The book,a memoir of her experience when her partner Cecile Kaysoe was diagnosed with terminal cancer at a time when Loeppky was dissatisfied with and considering leaving the relationship,was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards,the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction,and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Casey Plett is a Canadian writer,best known for her novel Little Fish, her Lambda Literary Award winning short story collection,A Safe Girl to Love,and her Giller Prize-nominated short story collection,A Dream of a Woman. Plett is a transgender woman,and she often centers this experience in her writing.
Tanis MacDonald is a Canadian poet,professor,reviewer,and writer of creative non-fiction. She is Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University with specialities in Canadian literature,women’s literature,and the elegy. She is the author of four books of poetry and one scholarly study,the editor of a selected works,and the founder of the Elegy Roadshow.
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me is a 2019 memoir by journalist Anna Mehler Paperny about her experience of major depressive disorder and suicidal ideation. It was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.
Angela Sterritt is a Canadian journalist of the Gitxsan Nation,who was a multi-platform reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver,British Columbia for more than 10 years. She is most noted as a Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Local Reporter at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021,for her story on a Heiltsuk grandfather and granddaughter who were wrongfully accused of bank fraud when trying to open the young girl's first bank account.
Emily Urquhart is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her 2022 book Ordinary Wonder Tales,which was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
