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Montreal region
Montreal region
Fecto is an author, composer and cartoonist. She publishes her comic strips and comic books since 2007 and is the editor of Fecto Productions. She has created numerous comic characters such as Les Champis, The Shroomies, Perfecto, The bees of BeeBee Ganoosh, Musika Tralala,…
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Gabriola
Gabriola
Margot Fedoruk is the author of Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir (Heritage House, 2022). Her book recently won silver in Taste Canada's culinary narrative category in 2023. Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg and a Creative…
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Victoria
Victoria
Trevor Ferguson was born in Ontario and raised in Montreal. After travelling hither and yon, he settled back in Montreal to write novels. He served as Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada in 1990-91. His novel, The Timekeeper, became a motion picture. In addition to his sixteen…
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Toronto
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Toronto
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Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island
Mona Fertig is a BC poet, publisher, editor and founder of The Literary Storefront, Canada’s first literary centre (1978-1985) and Mother Tongue Publishing. She grew up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano and Burnaby and went to the Vancouver School of Art. She has been writing poetry…
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Toronto
Toronto
Joy Fielding was born and in Toronto, Canada and went to the University of Toronto, where she received her B.A. after majoring in English, and appearing in the well-received student movie, "Winter Kept Us Warm." Acting ambitions subsequently took her to Hollywood where she got a…
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Souris
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Gibsons
Gibsons
Claire Finlayson is a writer from Gibsons, BC. For ten years she served on the board of directors of the Sunshine Coast's Festival of the Written Arts, the last three years as vice president. Her first book, Dispatches from Ray's Planet: A Journey through Autism, published by…
Whitehorse, Yukon
Whitehorse, Yukon
YUKON STORY LAUREATE.
Growing up in Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, I worked as a journalist, sewer rat, truck driver, heavy equipment operator, expediter, prospector, public relations director, motion picture theatre owner, financial advisor and in 2009, retired to become a…
Toronto
Toronto
Christine Fischer Guy is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has lived and worked in London, England. Her debut novel, The Umbrella Mender, appeared in 2014. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Five Dials, Descant, Prairie Fire, The Queen's Quarterly, The…
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Paris
Paris
Born and raised in Florida, ALISON FISHBURN is a Pushcart-nominated writer, playwright, performer, and community organizer living in Paris, Ontario. She has written plays since 2009, self-producing three full length plays in New York City, directing one. She performed her latest…
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Centre Wellington
Centre Wellington
After two decades in media Colleen now writes copy for the financial services industry. In 2023, Colleen completed the Humber Creative Writing graduate program where she was also the recipient of the Harlequin Diverse Voices Scholarship. In 2024, she launched Elora Writing…
Orfordville and Halifax
Orfordville and Halifax
Lisa Fishman’s seventh collection of poetry, Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, was recently released on Wave Books (2020) and her debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride, is forthcoming on Gaspereau Press (2022). She is also the author of 24 Pages and other poems (…
Toronto
Toronto
Alice Fitzpatrick has contributed short stories to literary magazines and anthologies and has recently retired from teaching in order to devote herself to writing full-time. She is a fearless champion of singing, cats, all things Welsh, and the Oxford comma. Her summers spent…
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St. John's
St. John's
Susan Flanagan has worked as a freelance journalist (BJ, King’s College, NS, 1991) in St. John’s, NL for more than 30 years.
In 2021 Susan had two novels published: Supermarket Baby, winner of the 2019 Percy Janes First Novel Award (Flanker Press, February 3, 2021) and The…
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Belledune
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Montreal
Montreal
Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Times bestselling The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted…