Member Directory
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Vancouver
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Edmonton
Edmonton
C.E. Hoffman (they/them) is a screenwriter, author, poet, publisher, and cat lover (not necessarily in that order.) A grant winner, Elgin Award nominee, recipient of a Silver Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May…
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Toronto
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Toronto
Toronto
Linda received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg, a BEd in Special Education and MEd in Educational Psychology from the University of Manitoba. She has crossed genres with her work, publishing both short story collections and novels for young adults and adults…
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Toronto
Toronto
Born in Toronto and educated in Toronto and London, Greg has published four story collections and three novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and former director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. He has won the Governor General's Award for…
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Montreal
Vancouver
Vancouver
Keiko Honda is a scientist, writer, community organizer and painter. She holds a PhD in international community health from New York University, but when she suddenly contracted a rare autoimmune disease that confined her to a wheelchair for life, she had to leave her career in…
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Stratford
Stratford
Jennifer Honeybourn is a young adult and middle grade author who also writes under the pseudonym J.E. Hailstone. She's a fan of British accents, Broadway musicals, and epic, happily-ever-after love stories. If she could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, she’d have high tea…
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Northumberland County
Northumberland County
I am a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator and community radio host & producer. My poems, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction appear in Room Magazine, Geez magazine, Mutha magazine, Opus, Dialogue, catapult magazine, Road Journal, and Topology, among other…
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Hornby Island
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) was a finalist…
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Montreal
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Mississauga
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Saskatoon
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 of poetry, "Riot…
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Toronto
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 of…
Toronto
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…
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Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella
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…
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London