Davidson, Craig
CRAIG DAVIDSON was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published three previous books of literary fiction: Rust and Bone, which was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film of the same name, The Fighter, and Sarah Court. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his articles and […]
Campbell, Deborah
DEBORAH CAMPBELL has reported from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico and Russia. Winner of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, New Scientist, The Walrus and other publications. She teaches at the University of British Columbia. www.deborahcampbell.org Events: Reading Event […]
Cameron, Kevan
KEVAN “SCRUFFMOUTH” CAMERON is an international spoken word artist, writer and performer in the “edu-tainment” industry. A graduate of Simon Fraser University and former soccer pro, Kevan is co-editor of The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry. He is currently working on many writing projects with the purpose of pursuing justice because Black Lives […]
Borrie, Cathie
CATHIE BORRIE briefly tried her hand at theater school, trained as a nurse, holds a BSN from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She has a law degree from the University of Saskatchewan and received her Certificate in Creative Writing from the Writer’s Studio at Simon […]
Banktock, Nick
NICK BANTOCK is known throughout the world for his art, his writing, and particularly, his marriage of the two. He was schooled in England and holds a BA in Fine Art (painting). He has been credited with creating a new genre in literature with his incredibly popular cult series, Griffin & Sabine, which was on […]
Atkinson, Cathryn
CATHRYN ATKINSON is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter, with experience as a staff and freelance editor and writer with The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and many others over a 28-year career in Canada and the UK. She has been the arts editor at Pique Newsmagazine in Whistler since 2013. Events: Workshop […]
Hill, Lawrence
Lawrence Hill is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes, which was made into a six part TV mini-series. His previous novels, Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, became national bestsellers. Hill’s non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing […]
Wight, Emily
Emily Wight is a writer, blogger, and home cook. A graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia, she’s spent the past six years blogging at Well Fed, Flat Broke, a site that chronicles her forays in the kitchen as she tries to balance a career and parenthood, which includes a […]
Winter, Michael
Michael Winter has published two collections of stories, five novels, and one work of non-fiction. He is the only writer ever to win the Notable Author award, given out by the Writers Trust. He divides his time between Toronto and Newfoundland.
Walters, Eric
Eric Walters began writing in 1993 as a way to entice his grade 5 students into becoming more interested in reading and writing. Each day he would read to his students the story he was writing which was set in their school, in their community and with some of the students as characters. At the end […]