Warland, Betsy
BETSY WARLAND has published 12 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing. In 2013, Warland created a new publishing template: an interactive salon that features excerpts from her manuscript Oscar of Between, guest writers and artist’s work and […]
Walker, Tara
TARA WALKER is the Publisher of Penguin Random House Canada Children’s Publishing Group, which comprises four imprints: Tundra Books, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, Puffin and Razorbill. She got her start in children’s publishing more than twenty years ago at Kids Can Press where she worked for sixteen years as an editor before joining Tundra […]
VAN CAMP, RICHARD
RICHARD VAN CAMP is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author. Born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, he is a member of the Dogrib (TłĮchǫ) Dene Nation. He is the author of dozens of books, including The Lesser Blessed, a Canadian classic that has been adapted into a feature film. Van Camp uses his skilled oral […]
Urquhart, Jane
JANE URQUHART’S previous novels are The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, The Night Stages, and Sanctuary Line, all of which have been published internationally. She is also the author of Storm Glass (stories), and three books of poetry. A national bestselling author, Urquhart has received numerous awards and […]
Touchie, Rodger
RODGER TOUCHIE is the president of the Heritage Group of Publishers (Heritage House, TouchWood Editions, Rocky Mountain Books) and Greystone Books and has been the publisher of Heritage House since 1995. He is a past president of the Association of Canadian Publishers and ABPBC and has taught in the SFU MPub program. Heritage House publishes […]
Touchie, Pat
PAT TOUCHIE has been the publisher of TouchWood Editions (formerly Horsdal & Schubart) since 1998. During that time she has built on the company’s origins as a non-fiction regional publisher and today publishes a range of contemporary lifestyle books, cookbooks, biography, crime fiction, and works closely with her Associate Publisher, Taryn Boyd, who also oversees TouchWood’s […]
Thien, Madeleine
MADELEINE THIEN is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes, which was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Kiriyama Pacific Prize Notable Book, and won the BC Book Prize for Fiction; the novel Certainty, which won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award; and the novel Dogs at the Perimeter, which was shortlisted for Berlin’s 2014 International Literature […]
Tanaka, Shelly
SHELLEY TANAKA is an editor, writer, teacher and translator. She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including seven titles in the award-winning I Was There series. Her books have been translated into nine languages, and she has won the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the […]
Swayze, Carolyn
CAROLYN SWAYZE is the president of Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency, where she represents authors of literary fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. She has been guiding the careers of some of Canada’s top literary talent since 1994. The Swayze Agency welcomes submissions from emerging and established authors of fiction for adults, new adults and children, […]
RICHARDSON, BILL
BILL RICHARDSON lives in southwestern Manitoba, in the rural municipality of Louise, and in Vancouver’s West End, which is where the eight linked stories in his new collection, I Saw Three Ships (Talonbooks) are set. This fall, he’s the writer in residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.