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Hong, C.J.

Ottawa

C.J.

Hong

Ottawa

C.J. Hong is the author of the award-winning interactive picture book, Greetings, Floof!. As her passion beyond writing is promoting literacy, she loves volunteering at an elementary school to read with children. In her spare time, she practices Kung Fu Fan, dances, and spends…

Hoogendam, MERKAT Meredith Katie

Northumberland County

MERKAT Meredith Katie

Hoogendam

Northumberland County

I am a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community radio host & producer. My poems, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction appear in publications across the U.S. and Canada, including Room Magazine, Geez magazine, Mutha magazine, Opus, Dialogue, catapult…

Hoogland, Cornelia

Hornby Island

Cornelia

Hoogland

Hornby Island

Cornelia Hoogland is 2023 winner of the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award given by the League of Canadian Poets. Trailer Park Elegy, (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award. Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011)…

Hope, Alyson

Montreal

Alyson

Hope

Montreal

Alyson Hope is a writer who currently lives in Montreal, the island of Tiohtià:ke – unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. In 2014, Hope received her Master’s Degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Based largely on ecocritical theory, her thesis…

Hoque is a presenter as an author and poet, Shahanaz

Mississauga

Shahanaz

Hoque is a presenter as an author and poet

Mississauga

BioShahanaz is a Canadian author, teacher, and spoken word presenter. She is a proud member of The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) and the League of Canadian Poets. Originally from Bangladesh, she arrived in Canada as a young woman and has since made it her mission to…

Horlick, Leah

Saskatoon

Leah

Horlick

Saskatoon

Leah Horlick is the 2022-2023 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distnguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. A writer and poet, her most recent collection, "Moldovan Hotel," was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut book…

Hosein, Jennifer

Toronto

Jennifer

Hosein

Toronto

Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, A Map of Rain Days, published by Guernica Editions in 2020, was longlisted for the League…

Hossack, Darcie Friesen

House, Oriah

Toronto

Oriah

House

Toronto

The focus of Oriah’s life and work has been an on-going inquiry into the nature of the sacred and the mystery of how we co-create meaning from the stories of our lives and communities. Raised in a small town in Northern Ontario, she was at home in the wilderness and drawn to the…

House, Yolande

Toronto

Housty, Jess

Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella

Jess

Housty

Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella

Jess H̓áust̓i is a parent, writer, and land-based educator from the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation in Bella Bella. They live and work in their unceded ancestral homelands where they focus their practice on community building, food sovereignty, and Indigenous culture and language…

Howald, Meg

London

Meg

Howald

London

As a novelist and script writer writer, Meg balances her writing time with teaching creative writing at Fanshawe College (London, Ontario). The new year has bought a contract from World Castle Publishing for a new mystery thriller. We are thrilled to receive 4 and 5 star…

Penticton

Calgary

Calgary

Barb Howard is a Calgary multi-genre author who has published five books of literary fiction and more than 50 short stories and essays in magazines, journals, and anthologies across Canada. Her recent experience as a mentor includes the 2024 Writers’ Guild of Alberta mentorship…

Howard, Sean

Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sean

Howard

Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sean Howard is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Trinity: Tribute Sequences for Robert Graves (Gaspereau Press, 2022) and Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems, Then as Now (Gaspereau Press, 2021). His poetry as been widely published in Canada, as well as the US, UK and…

Howell, Michael J.

Orillia

Michael J.

Howell

Orillia

Michael Howell was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1957. He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and earned a Bachelor of Education at the University of Calgary. As a high school teacher he is known for his creative leadership programs. In 1998 his grade 9 Autonomous…

Howse, Joseph

Terence Bay

Joseph

Howse

Terence Bay

Joseph Howse writes fiction and poetry, as well as technical books on computer programming and image analysis. He lives in a Nova Scotian fishing village, where he chats with his cats and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. Joseph's debut novel, The Girl in the Water…

Hrab, Naseem

Toronto

Naseem

Hrab

Toronto

Naseem Hrab is the author of several children’s books including Otis & Peanut, How to Party Like a Snail and Weekend Dad, a 2020 Governor General’s Literary Awards finalist. Naseem is also the author of The Sour Cherry Tree, which won the 2022 Governor General’s Literary…

Rothesay

℅ Dundas

℅ Dundas

Angela Hryniuk is a Spiritual Wealth Expert, Buddhist Teacher, International Speaker, and Author of 6 books and 5 Meditation CDs. Off the back of her 30+ years as a practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, she’s spent over 40,000 hours in meditation, some of them in…

Hubbard, Taryn

Chilliwack

Taryn

Hubbard

Chilliwack

Taryn Hubbard’s poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been included in journals such as Canadian Literature, Room magazine, The Capilano Review, Canadian Woman Studies, CV2, filling Station, carte blanche, subTerrain, and others.Hubbard lives, writes…

Hudson, Noel

Bay of Fundy

Noel

Hudson

Bay of Fundy

Noel Hudson has written fiction, nonfiction, and scripts for radio and television. He has also edited over 600 works of nonfiction and fiction, and taught university-level fiction-writing, as well as editing workshops. He lives on Nova Scotia's Fundy Coast.

Hudson, Allan

Dieppe

Allan

Hudson

Dieppe

Allan Hudson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Growing up in South Branch he was encouraged to read from an early age by his mother who was a school teacher. He lives in Dieppe with his wife Gloria. He has enjoyed a lifetime of adventure, travel and uses the many…

Huebert, David

Halifax

David

Huebert

Halifax

DAVID HUEBERT has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. Huebert’s first story collection, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, among…

Huggan, Isabel

Orillia

Isabel

Huggan

Orillia

Isabel Huggan was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her B.A. (U.W.O., 1965, English and Philosophy), she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays and reviews, over the years she led creative…