Amanda Hale began her writing career as an immigrant in 1970s Montréal. She has published four novels, two poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories set in the village of Baracoa, Cuba. Her work has appeared in many Canadian & US literary magazines. She won the…

Phil Hall was raised in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. He attended the University of Windsor. He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Toronto New School, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been…

Patti M. Hall is a writer, book coach, and publishing manager.

While I'm currently focusing my writing energies on a historical novel, for the past decade my publishing credits have been in non-fiction. I have a particular interest in profiles and creative non-fiction, and my writing about urban culture, politics and design has appeared in…

Phil Halton is a veteran and author of "Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred-Year War" and two novels, "Every Arm Outstretched" and "This Shall Be a House of Peace." His latest work is the satirical graphic novel, "The Sandbox." His writing has appeared in the …

Terrie Hamazaki (she/her) holds a Master of Arts Degree in Creative and Critical Writing (UK). She performed her plays at the Fringe and Women in View Performing Arts Festivals. Her writing has appeared in Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Caitlin…

Jane Silcott’s first collection of essays, Everything Rustles, published with Anvil Press, was a finalist in the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize in the 2014 BC Book Prizes. She is co-editor, with Fiona Tinwei Lam, of the anthology Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs,…

Sylvia D. Hamilton is an award-winning Nova Scotian artist known for the documentaries Portia White: Think on Me, The Little Black School House, Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia, and Black Mother Black Daughter, among others. Her 2014…

Patti-Kay Hamilton writes, paddles, skis,coaches and hunts on the lands of the NWT Metis Nation and Salt River First Nations. Home is Fort Smith in the heart of Wood Buffalo National Park where the Slave River rapids rumble even in the winter and whooping cranes soar…

Jo Hammond.Born a stone’s throw from the English Channel in Bognor Regis, Jo Hammond’s first job was as a dairy farmer. After studying Music and Science in a Liverpool teacher’s college, she became a secondary and elementary school teacher, also a member of the Royal Liverpool…

Coming from generations of English blue water sailors, Heather Harbord arrived in Canada in 1963. She lived in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia before returning to British Columbia in 1977. She now makes her home in Powell River, B.C. in a house overlooking…

Kim Harbridge (she/her) is a writer and editor of speculative, scary, and otherwise strange fiction. Her writing has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Pulp Literature, Strange Horizons, and The Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 2. When she's not…

At different times, an author, playwright, broadcaster, critic, arts commentator, economic historian, newspaper columnist, grassroots activist, public advocate, consultant, democratic socialist politician, and muckraker, Herschel Hardin brings his lively iconoclastic style to…

I am an award-winning (The Journey Prize, Canadian Authors Association Silver Jubilee Award)  writer whose work has appeared in eight anthologies, including twice in both Best American Short Stories and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and once in Best Canadian Short…

Born in 1923, northern British Columbia. Bomber pilot, WWII. BA, 1948, UBC; MFA, 1950, University of Iowa. Fourteen years with the CBC in Vancouver as producer, station manager, and director of radio, BC region. Twenty-four years with the Department of Creative Writing at UBC,…

Liz Harmer is Strange Loops (2023) and The Amateurs (2018), both released with Knopf Canada. The Amateurs was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2019. Also in 2019, she was the runner-up in the The Image/Mitchell Prize for a suite of poems. In 2018, her…

A self-professed “senior nomad” (she says some would suggest “crazy person”), Canadian writer Sue Harper spent 18 back-to-back winters in Kelowna, British Columbia and her adopted hometown, Wanaka, New Zealand, traveling as much as possible in between. Now she's back in the…

It was that special year: 1967 when the city of Montreal exploded onto the world’s stage and hosted Expo ‘67.  My high school graduation from Westover School happened at that same time. My parents and I drove from Connecticut to Montreal stopping along the way at the…

Sheila is the author of Voices for the Islands, Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea, published by Heritage House July, 2024. It has been on the BC bestseller list all summer. She was co-author and co-editor of the award winning, Islands in the Salish Sea,…