Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer and academic from the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. A 2024 Resident Artist at Deer Lake Artist Residencies run by the city of Burnaby, she is a recipient of a scholarship for the 2023 Rutgers-Camden Poets and Scholars Retreat from Rutgers. She…

Peter Such was born in England and came as a youngster to Canada in 1953. He worked loading freightcars for the Canadian National Railways and in uranium mines, Elliot Lake. He graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto(M.A. 1966) and was a working class member of "…

Sarah Suk (pronounced like soup with a K) lives in Vancouver, Canada, where she writes stories and admires mountains. She is the author of young adult novels The Space between Here & Now and Made in Korea, as well as the co-writer of John Cho’s middle grade novel…

Sonia writes stories inspired by Palestinian folklore and history. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy, Palestine Book, Arab American Book awards, and was a finalist for the Best New Weird Award. She has stories published in ArabLit Quarterly, Fantasy, FIYAH, and…

Michael Sullivan is an Associate Professor of International Relations at St. Mary's University and a Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Earned Citizenship and Born Innocent: Protecting the Dependents of Accused Caregivers,…

Rosemary Sullivan is the author of sixteen books in the multiple genres of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. Her books include Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen which won a Governor General’s Award, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out,…

Merna Summers was born in Alberta, and was a reporter and freelance journalist before turning to fiction. She has been active in The Writers' Union (as National Council member and second vice-president) and in the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She visited China in 1987 as a member…

Chanel M. Sutherland is the winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize. In addition, she was awarded the 2022 Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship, longlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Max Margles Fiction Prize.…

Born in Hastings County, Hannah Brown currently lives in the Beach in Toronto. She has two degrees in film from York University and has won awards for screenwriting, including one from the NFB for How to Call Cows. After a happy sojourn teaching film and English at the college…

Michael Swan is an award winning journalist whose books include, Out of the Cold (Catholic Register Press), Written on My Heart (Novalis) and Here With Us (Novalis). Written on My Heart, a critical exploration of traditional Catholic prayers, was awarded a third prize in the…

Dane Swan is the editor of the critically praised anthology, "Changing the Face of Can Lit."  His second book, “A Mingus Lullaby,” (Guernica Editions) was a finalist for the 2017 Trillium Book Prize for Poetry. A past Writer in Residence for the Open Book Foundation of Ontario,…

Susan Swan is the Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada for the 2007-2008 year. Fiction by Susan Swan has been published in sixteen countries, including Canada, Spain, the U.S., Poland, Germany, the U.K. Australia, Italy and Holland. One of her novels, The Wives of Bath, was…

Margaret Sweatman writes novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry and songs, and performs with jazz and new music ensembles. Her most recent novel is The Gunsmith's Daughter (2022).

George Swede received his B.A.(Hons. Psych.) from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and his M.A. (Expm. Psych.) from Dalhousie University in 1965. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, periodicals and miscellaneous…

Kevin Sylvester is an award winning illustrator, writer and broadcaster. He has written and illustrated more than thirty books for kids. His novel is The Fabulous Zed Watson! Co-written with his kid Basil was a finalists for the 2021 GG awards! It’s the story of a non-binary…

Shawn Syms has written for over 25 years for more than 50 publications. His work has been short-listed for the prestigious Journey Prize. Shawn wrote the short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar, a National Post pick for the Top Books of 2014, recently seized by the…

GILLIAN SZE is a writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014), Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015), and Panicle (ECW Press, 2017), which were finalists for the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She…