Mona Fertig is a BC poet, publisher, editor and founder of The Literary Storefront, Canada’s first literary centre (1978-1985) and Mother Tongue Publishing. She grew up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano and Burnaby and went to the Vancouver School of Art. She has been writing poetry…

Joy Fielding was born and in Toronto, Canada and went to the University of Toronto, where she received her B.A. after majoring in English, and appearing in the well-received student movie, "Winter Kept Us Warm." Acting ambitions subsequently took her to Hollywood where she…

Carolyn Finch is a lover of literature and life! As a red seal, blue collar tradeswoman, she spent 28 years standing behind a hairstylists cutting chair. At forty years of age, it was time to set down her scissors for a few days a week and explore an old passion-…

Claire Finlayson is a writer from Gibsons, BC. For ten years she served on the board of directors of the Sunshine Coast's Festival of the Written Arts, the last three years as vice president. Her first book, Dispatches from Ray's Planet: A Journey through Autism, published by…

Christine Fischer Guy is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has lived and worked in London, England. Her debut novel, The Umbrella Mender, appeared in 2014. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Five Dials, Descant, Prairie Fire, The Queen's Quarterly, The…

Born and raised in Florida, ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. She has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She performed her latest…

After two decades in media Colleen now writes copy for the financial services industry. In 2023, Colleen completed the Humber Creative Writing graduate program where she was also the recipient of the Harlequin Diverse Voices Scholarship. In 2024, she launched Elora Writing…

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 2/25/25] New poetry book: One Big Time, Wave Books, release date May 6, 2025seventh collection of poetry, Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Wave Books (2020)debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride (Gaspereau Press (2022).  …

Adrienne Fitzpatrick grew up in the north and returned to complete her Masters in English at the University of Northern British Columbia; her creative thesis won the John Harris Prize for the best in Northern Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Prairie Fire, CV2,…

Susan Flanagan has worked as a freelance journalist (BJ, King’s College, NS, 1991) in St. John’s, NL for more than 30 years. In 2021 Susan had two novels published: Supermarket Baby, winner of the 2019 Percy Janes First Novel Award (Flanker Press, February 3, 2021)…

Andy Flanagan wrote and published a historical non-fiction titled, THE ENDLESS BATTLE in conjunction with the University of New Brunswick military heritage program and Goose-lane Editions. This book was nominated for a 2018 Democracy Historical writing award. The Canadian…

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Times bestselling The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted…

Patti Flather is an award-winning Yukon playwright, theatre artist and writer. Patti’s first fiction collection is Such A Lovely Afternoon (Inanna Publications). Her play Paradise premiered in the Yukon, toured nationally, and is published (Playwrights Canada Press).…

Anne Fleming is the author of six books: Curiosities (Knopf 2024), a novel, and The Goat (Groundwood 2017), a novel for children, Poemw (Pedlar 2018), Gay Dwarves of America (Pedlar 2012), Anomaly (Raincoast 2005), and Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (Polestar 1998…

Melanie Florence is an Aboriginal writer based in Toronto. She has seen her byline on everything from online dating advice for men to a piece about not so perfect parenting, from an interview with Meg Cabot to a review of an award-winning Aboriginal dance performance. Her…

My new historical novel Finding Flora, about women homesteaders on the prairies, was published by Simon & Schuster Canada on April 1, 2025.My debut novel Bird's Eye View tells the story of a Saskatchewan farm girl who joins the air force in World War Two and becomes an…

Lee Edward Födi is an author, illustrator, and specialized arts educator—or, as he likes to think of himself, a daydreaming expert.  He is the author of Spell Sweeper, The Secret of Zoone and The Guardians of Zoone (HarperCollins Childrens Books)…