ALICIA ELLIOTT is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt and many others. She’s had numerous essays nominated for National Magazine Awards, winning Gold in 2017 and an honorable mention in 2020. Her short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 (by …
DAVID WORSLEY became co-owner of Words Worth Books in 2011, after managing the bookstore for 12 years. He has also volunteered with the CKWR FM Monday with the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, and facilitates speaker and lecturer events, including a men’s only book club, at Words Worth Books. David has over 25 years …
PAMELA MULLOY is the editor of The New Quarterly and the creative director of the Wild Writers Literary Festival. She is also a writer with short fiction published in the UK and Canada. Her debut novel The Deserters was published by Véhicule Press in 2018. Photo by Ayelet Tsabari.
Lamees Al Ethari is an Iraqi-Canadian writer and artist. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo, where she has been teaching academic and creative writing since 2015. Her poetry has been published in The Malpais Review and the anthology Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and printed as broadsides. She has a forthcoming work in poetry, From …
Tasneem Jamal’s debut novel Where the Air Is Sweet was published to critical acclaim in 2014. Her writing has appeared in Chatelaine, Saturday Night magazine, and the Literary Review of Canada. She worked as a news editor at The Globe and Mail and before that as a copy editor at Saturday Night magazine. Currently a consulting editor with The New Quarterly, she is at work on …
Susan Scott is the editor of Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers (Caitlin Press, 2019)—an anthology in celebration of all things edgy, iffy, unorthodox, and sublime in the lives of women writers. Susan serves as TNQ’s lead nonfiction editor and as associate director of the Wild Writers Festival. As of 2018, she stepped …
Claire Tacon‘s first novel, In the Field, was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Prize and has appeared in journals and anthologies such as The New Quarterly, SubTerrain and Best Canadian Short Stories. Claire is a lecturer at St. Jerome’s University …
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John’s area of Newfoundland. His #1 nationally bestselling novels include The Divine Ryans, A World Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which has been made into a stage play and is being developed as a TV series. Johnston is also the …
Helen Humphreys is the award-winning author of many books. Her latest is The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America, published by HarperCollins. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.
Karen Connelly is the author of eleven books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, the most recent being Come Cold River, a memoir in poetry about growing up poor in Alberta. Her most recent nonfiction book, Burmese Lessons, a memoir of her time amongst dissidents, guerillas and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, was nominated for a Governor General’s …
Bill Pegg has been a baseball fan most of his life. He has played, coahced, umpired, organized, and supported the game in Kitchener-Waterloo as well as following pro ball closely (even before the Blue Jays). Locally, he’s served as City League Convenor with Kitchener Minor Ball and was coach and is presently business manager of …
Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and essayist. She is a columnist at the Globe and Mail, Open Book Toronto, and Blue Jays Nation, and author of the popular Baseball Life Advice e-newsletter. She has written about sports for Globe Debate, The Walrus, Torontoist, the National Post, Deadspin, Hazlitt, and ViceSports. She is a frequent guest on Metro Morning and a member of q’s …
Susan Olding is the author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of the 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime. Her writing has won a National Magazine Award and has appeared in The Bellingham Review, The L.A. Review of Books, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and the Utne Reader, and in anthologies, …
Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He has published three books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, and most recently, Siege 13: Stories, which won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, …
Betsy Warland has published 12 books of creative nonfiction, poetry and lyric prose. A creative writing teacher, mentor and editor, Warland works with writers from across Canada. Her bestseller book of essays if Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing (2010). Oscar of Between — A Memoir of Identity and Ideas was one of two books that …
Rebecca Rosenblum is the author of two acclaimed books of fiction, The Big Dream and Once, winner of the Metcalf-Rooke Award and named one of Quill and Quire‘s 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. So Much Love is her first novel. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Awards, and the Danuta Gleed Award, …
Lori McNulty is an author, photographer, digital storyteller and travel writer. A two-time Journey Prize finalist and a three-time finalist for the CBC Canada Writes Prizes, her writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, PRISM international, The Dalhousie Review, Descant and the Globe & Mail. As a writer-in-residence aboard the Canada C3 icebreaker this summer, she navigated part of …
Trevor Corkum is a writer, consultant, and educator. His fiction, essays, and reviews have been published widely in magazines and journals across Canada. His work has been nominated for the Journey Prize, the CBC Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and the Western Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. He reviews frequently …
Chris Banks is a Canadian poet. He is the author of three previous collections of poems: Bonfires, The Cold Panes of Surfaces, and Winter Cranes. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of …
Maša Torbica was born in Zagreb shortly before the breakup of Yugoslavia. Displaced by the subsequent civil war, her family immigrated to Canada. Maša writes in English and Serbian. Her recent work in English has appeared in Versal (Netherlands), Qu (USA), and Understorey (Canada). Her second book of poetry in Serbian, titled Atlas, will be published next year. Maša …
Zainab Mahdi is a poet, writer and videographer of Somali-Canadian origin. A K-W local, she is currently an undergraduate Health Studies student at the University of Waterloo. Zainab first developed an interest in poetry after discovering spoken word, and has since competed and featured at numerous venues locally and across the GTA. Her writing typically …
Beth Gebreyohannes escaped with her family from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after the military government the Derg, came to power in 1979. She was 14 years old. They travelled on foot across the cruel Danakil Desert for 17 days before arriving in Djibouti with just the clothes on their backs. She lived in Djibouti as a …
Kyle Edwards is a freelance writer in Toronto and a former policy researcher at the Chiefs of Ontario. He completed his bachelor of journalism at Ryerson University in June 2017. He enjoys writing about Indigenous politics and culture, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Kyle is Anishinaabe from Lake Manitoba First Nation, …
Author of two poetry books, Intimate Distances (City of Vancouver Book Prize finalist) and Enter the Chrysanthemum, and the children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket, Fiona Tinwei Lam‘s nonfiction, poetry and fiction appear in over 30 anthologies. Her articles have appeared in The Tyee online news magazine. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, co-edited the nonfiction anthology Double …
Pasha Malla is the author of five books. His writing has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, and several National Magazine Awards, been shortlisted for the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Prize (Best First Book, Canada & Caribbean) and long-listed for the …
Amanda Leduc‘s stories and essays have been published across Canada, the US, and the UK. She is the author of The Miracles of Ordinary Men (ECW Press, 2013), and The Centaur’s Wife, forthcoming from Random House Canada in 2018. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she spends too much time on Twitter and serves as the Communications …
Robert Rotenberg is one of Toronto’s top criminal lawyers and the author of several bestselling novels, including Old City Hall, The Guilty Plea, Stray Bullets, and Strangehold. He lives in Toronto with his wife, television news producer Vaune Davis, and their three children.
Anna Ling Kaye’s fiction has most recently been short-listed for the 2015 Journey Prize. A former editor at PRISM International and Ricepaper magazines, she is co-founder of Hapa-palooza Festival and sits on the board of Project Bookmark Canada. In 2015, Quill & Quire named Anna as one of seven women imprinting change in the Canadian publishing industry.
Laurie D. Graham, from Treaty 6 territory (Sherwood Park, Alberta), currently lives in Haldimand Treaty territory (Kitchener, Ontario), where she is a poet, an editor, the publisher of Brick, and a member of the advisory board for the Oskana Poetry & Poetics series. Her first book, Rove, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best …
Emily Donaldson is the editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, Canada’s oldest journal of literary criticism, and a freelance writer and book critic for The Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, Quill & Quire, among other publications. Originally from Montreal, she lives in Toronto with her husband and two boys.
Evelyn Lau is the Vancouver author of twelve books, including seven volumes of poetry. Her memoir Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, published when she was 18, was made into a CBC movie starring Sandra Oh. Evelyn’s short stories, essays and novel have been translated into a dozen languages; her poetry has received the Milton Acorn …
Carrie Snyder is the author of three books for adults and two for children (the latest is Jammie Day, out this fall with Owlkids). Her novel, Girl Runner, was published in Canada in 2014 and has been translated into a number of foreign languages. Carrie lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband, four children, and two dogs, …
Craig Norris is host of The Morning Edition, Waterloo Region’s top-rated morning show. He also hosts and produces In the Key of C, a weekly Ontario-wide look at music, arts, and culture. Both shows air on CBC Radio 1. He has also hosted Laugh Out Loud, CBC Radio 2 Drive, As It Happens, The R3-30, and Know Your Rights. Prior to …
Kathleen Winter wrote the novel Annabel and memoir Boundless (Anansi), and story collections boYs and The Freedom in American Songs (Biblioasis). This fall Knopf published her novel Lost in September based on letters of General James Wolfe to his mother.
Alison Pick is the author of six books of fiction, memoir and poetry, most recently the novel Strangers with the Same Dream. She was the winner of the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for the most promising writer in Canada under 35, and her novel Far to Go was nominated for the Man Booker prize. She lives and …
