COLES, MEGAN GAIL
MEGAN GAIL COLES is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the National Theatre School of Canada, and she has recently completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. She has written and produced numerous plays. Her first fiction collection, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome, won the BMO Winterset […]
COADY, LYNN
LYNN COADY is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of six books, including Hellgoing, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was an Amazon.ca and Globe and Mail Best Book. She is also the author of The Antagonist, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for […]
CARLSON, ANDREA
ANDREA CARLSON is one of Canada’s top chefs and a pioneer in the Pacific Northwest food scene. She has worked at and guided some of the best restaurants in Vancouver (and on Vancouver Island), including C, Sooke Harbour House, Raincity Grill, and Bishop’s. In 2013 she opened Harvest Community Foods, a noodle shop, local foods […]
BROWN, JIM
JIM BROWN is the host of CBC Radio’s The 180 and a regular guest host on The Current, As It Happens, q and The Sunday Edition. Prior to joining the CBC, Jim worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and filmmaker. His first documentary, Radiant City, won a Genie Award for best documentary in 2007 […]
BREWSTER, WAKEFIELD
WAKEFIELD BREWSTER, Canadian Performance Slam Poet, has been hitting mics since 2000. Put succinctly, he is also: Spoken Word Artist; Toronto Slam Poetry Champion; 3-Time Calgary Poetry Slam Champion & Team Captain: 2006, 2008, 2009; Poetry Reading Series Founder – Poésie à la Pâtisserie, Pitbull Poetry Reading Series; Poetry Coach/Mentor; Poet/Teacher-In-Residence; Literacy Advocate; Vocal Coach; […]
BOEHM, HEIGE S.
HEIGE S. BOEHM’s writing is influenced by the stories of her parents who grew up in Nazi Germany and who, at the end of the war, found themselves in East Germany. They escaped with their first two children to West Berlin in August, 1961, and Heige was born in West Germany in 1964. Ten years […]
BARLOW, MAUDE
MAUDE BARLOW is the international bestselling author of 19 books, including Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands which will release this fall. She is the honorary chair of the Council of Canadians and of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is on the executive committee of the Global Alliance […]
BARRETT, BRANDON
BRANDON BARRETT is a performer, theatre producer, improv instructor and playwright. The co-founder of sold-out sketch show Comedy Quickies, part of the Whistler Writers Festival, he has written or co-written three feature-length plays. He is also an award-winning journalist and features editor for Whistler’s Pique Newsmagazine and was the 2018 recipient of the John Collison […]