Carolyn Smart is the author of six poetry collections including “Hooked” and “Careen”, an award-winning memoir, and a forthcoming collection of poetry to be published by Book*hug in the fall of 2026. She founded the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and for three…

John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada.  He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines.  John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column…

Ron Smith is the author and editor of numerous books, including four books of poetry, the award-winning Elf the Eagle and The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke. An excerpt from the latter book was translated into eighteen languages by Reader’s Digest and published in over…

First published story September 1972 in West Coast Review, which enriched me by $ 5. Books since include: Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra. Mansfield Press, 2012 Back Off, Assassin: New and Selected Poems. Mansfield Press, 2009 Leonel/Roque. Coteau Books, 1998 Translating Sleep…

Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text …

Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking…

Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.” His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…

Sadé Smith is a Canadian children’s book author of GRANNY'S KITCHEN (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2022) which was nominated for the Blue Spruce Award for the 2023 Forest of Reading and shortlisted for the 2023 Crystal Kite Award. She is of Jamaican descent and her books often…

Paul Smith is a genre-spanning Canadian author whose work ranges from powerful historical fiction and pulse-pounding thrillers to heartfelt young adult and children’s books. A former ICU registered nurse, he turned to writing as a creative outlet and source of healing, bringing…

Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown teaching creative writing in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC's Okanagan campus in BC's Interior. Smith’s memoir, My Body Is…

Nicole Smith is an archaeologist, educator, and author. Since 2000, archaeological research and fieldwork have taken her to Haida Gwaii, the Discovery Islands, western and southern Vancouver Island, Great Bear Rainforest, Northwest Territories, and Tierra del Fuego in…

Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique’s writing, speaking engagements and online courses is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Monique’s novel, Tilly and the Crazy…

Donna E. Smyth was born and grew up in Kimberly, BC, but has lived and worked on the west coast, in Britain, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and for the past 15 years, in Nova Scotia. Her writing is always crossing genres, slipping and sliding around definitions of what is "supposed to…

Tricia Snell writes books, stories, poems, essays/articles, and book reviews, and is currently working on a novel.Tricia's story (fiction), “Out to the Horses,” was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize and published in Room Magazine (…

Lola Sneyd is a poet, short-story writer, and journalist who grew up in the west, but is now a Torontonian. A public-health nurse, she has written about and for all ages. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Canada, the U.S., England, and Australia. She has taught Creative…

Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…

I have dedicated my life to what I describe as literary activism: organizing and sustaining the social force that literature can generate. For over two decades, both in Iran and now in Canada, I have directed and curated literary events that link artistic work with social care.…

A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be a novel, The Last Bridge, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2027. The book marks a return to fiction for her and is a sort of sequel to River Music (Cormorant Books, 2015.)  Most of her…

K. Sohail was declared born in Pakistan in 1952. After graduating from medical school in Pakistan, he came to study psychiatry at Memorial University, Newfoundland in 1977. He has been working as a psychotherapist in Whitby, Ontario since 1984. His creative writings (poetry,…

Su J Sokol is a social rights advocate and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. Originally from Brooklyn, xe now makes Montréal xyr home. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum, which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian…

Adam Sol latest collection is Broken Dawn Blessings, published in 2021 by ECW Press. He has published four other books of poetry, and one collection of essays, How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry. He is the Coordinator of the Creative Expression…