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…

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,…

Melanie Summers is a multi-award-winning, Amazon best-selling author of romantic comedies and women’s fiction. She’s written over thirty-five books for people who have 'had it up to here' with the real world. Her highly acclaimed Full Hearts Series was picked up by both…

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 Sutherland is a Vincentian Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. She is the author of the short story collection Layaway Child (House of Anansi Press, May 2026). Her work has been recognized with the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize, the 2022 CBC Short Story 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…

Michelle Swallow is the author of The Mackenzie River Guide, which has helped numerous paddlers travel down Canada’s longest river. Her Substack newsletter, Biking to Bakeries, started as a collection of stories about her families bicycle trip across France and became a blog…

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…

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…

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…

Alice Switocz Goldbloom straddles two worlds – the Polish immigrant family she was raised in and the Jewish one she married into – which has shaped her writing and understanding of identity, memory, and belonging. She lives in Montreal with her husband, where they…

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…

Jakub (Kuba) Szamalek is a Polish-Canadian author and video game writer. He was born in Poland, studied in the UK (at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar), and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote several best-selling and…

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…

Nancy Taber's debut novel, A SEA OF SPECTRES, published with Acorn Press in June 2024. The companion novel, A COVE OF WITCHES, is forthcoming in Fall 2026. Nancy is a university professor and fiction author who loves stories about strong complex women. She writes in the…

Lynn Tait is an award-winning poet and photographer residing in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Her poems have appeared in FreeFall, Vallum, CV2, Literary Review of Canada, Trinity Review, High Shelf Press, The Quarantine Review, Verse/Virtual, Muleskinner, Last Leaves and in over 100…

Liam Taliesin is a Red River Metis and proud citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation. He grew up in Winnipeg's celebrated North End. He is a founder of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights and chaired the organization its first six years. Two of his plays, 'St. Peter's…

As the daughter of immigrant parents, Urve grew up in Toronto hearing stories about the history and culture of Estonia. Urve didn’t realize that she wanted to be a writer so she attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.Sc. (Physical Therapy).…

Eric Enno Tamm is an author, journalist and analyst with more than 15 years experience in the media and nonprofit sector. His first book, Beyond The Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, was a…

Candie Tanaka (they/them) is a multiracial trans writer, artist and librarian challenging the binaries continually reconstructed between self and other while exploring archive and memory in a socio-political context. They are a creative writing graduate of The Writer’s…