Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010.
Eve Joseph is a Canadian poet and author. She is the author of The Startled Heart (2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Quarrels, which won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for poetry.
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France.
Aislinn Hunter is a Canadian poetry and fiction author.
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.
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.
Kathy Page is a British-Canadian writer.
Ian Williams is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Alix Ohlin is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. She was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and currentlylives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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."
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.
Anakana Schofield is an Irish-Canadian author, who won the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky. Born in England to an Irish mother, she lived in London and in Dublin, Ireland until moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1999. The novel was also a shortlisted nominee for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario. Mirolla was awarded the Bressani Award for his novel Berlin in 2010. He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Carellin Brooks is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel One Hundred Days of Rain won the Edmund White Award in 2016 and the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2017.
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017.
Donato Mancini is a Canadian poet. He is most noted for his 2017 collection Same Diff, which was a shortlisted Griffin Poetry Prize finalist in 2018.
Amy Spurway is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Crow was published in 2019. The novel, a black comedy about a woman returning home to Cape Breton Island to reunite with her estranged family after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, was a shortlisted finalist for the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the 2020 ReLit Award for fiction.
Francesca Ekwuyasi is a Canadian writer and artist. She is most noted for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread, which was published in 2020 and longlisted for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.
