Barclay, Byrna
BARCLAY, BYRNA is an award-winning author of novels, short story collections and a playscript. The House of the White Elephant, loosely based on her paternal ancestry, is her tenth publication and was the Fiction Winner of the 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards. Byrna has served as president of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and was editor of […]
Bates, Margo
BATES, MARGO teaches work-shops for writers on research strategies for writing fiction and non-fiction, humour writing, storytelling, and publicity for authors. She does public speaking, publicity, and photography. The author of P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother, she’s currently writing The Funeral Follower. She’s the past-president of Canadian Authors–Metro Vancouver, and she served nationally as the vice-chair. […]
Gunn, Genni
GENNI GUNN is a writer, translator and musician. She has published three novels: Solitaria (Signature Editions), nominated for the Giller Prize 2011; Tracing Iris, made into a film titled The Riverbank; and Thrice Upon a Time, finalist for the Commonwealth Prize. She has also published two story collections, and two poetry collections, one of which was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Poetry Award. Her two poetry […]
Wright, Ronald
Historian, novelist, and essayist RONALD WRIGHT is the award-winning author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. Much of his work explores the relationships between past and present, peoples and power, other cultures and our own. A Short History of Progress was the best-selling book in the […]
Woodward, Caroline
CAROLINE WOODWARD is the author of Disturbing the Peace (Polestar, 1990), which was nominated for the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize, Alaska Highway Two-Step (Polestar, 1993), which was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Mystery, Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny (Oolichan, 2010) and two children’s books that have also been nominated […]
Williams, Megan
MEGAN WILLIAM’S first book, Our Interrupted Fairy Tale, is a real-life love story, uniquely told from both Megan and her partner, Chad Warren’s perspectives. The story details the raw intimacies of being young, in love and in a serious relationship with someone fighting an incurable blood cancer. After its release in February 2014, Our Interrupted […]
Wigmore, Gillian
GILLIAN WIGMORE is the author of three books of poems: soft geography (Caitlin Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 ReLit Award, Dirt of Ages (Nightwood, 2012), and Orient (Brick Books, 2014), as well as a novella, Grayling, (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2014). Her work has been published in magazines, shortlisted for prizes and anthologized. She lives in Prince George, […]
White, Howard
HOWARD WHITE was raised in a series of camps and settlements on the BC coast and never got over it. He is still to be found stuck, barnacle-like, to the shore at Pender Harbour, BC. In the early 1970s he started editing the bestselling series Raincoast Chronicles and founded the award-winning book publishing company Harbour Publishing. […]
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 […]