Wendy Hawkin is an author/publisher with Blue Haven Press. As W. L. Hawkin, she publishes the Hollystone Mysteries, a mystery/thriller/urban fantasy series that features a coven of Vancouver witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. As a genre…

A life-long lover of horror, Vanessa wrote her first story when she was in grade five. It was titled Mutilated and warranted a trip to the school guidance counsellor. With over a dozen publications under her belt, Vanessa is not only a proud mom, but a bestselling author. She…

Barbara Haworth-Attard was born in Kitchener, Ontario and now lives in London, Ontario with her husband. Her fondest memories of childhood are of her weekly Saturday visits to the library, a tradition carried on to date. While always possessed with the writing bug, it was not…

Penelope Hawtrey grew up in southern Ontario and moved to eastern Ontario to attend University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She began writing shortly after graduation, then stopped, and started again a decade later. After she completed her first manuscript,…

  Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story collection Small Change was…

Elaine Hayes studied creative writing at the University of Calgary (2007; B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing) and the Humber School for Writers. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including (M)othering…

Diana Hayes was born in Toronto in 1955 and has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia and Victoria, receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She was Poetry Editor for Prism international while at U.B.C. from ’80…

Diane has been writing professionally for over 30 years. An award-winning freelance writer and the author of an award-winning novel series, she was the speechwriter for international human rights lawyer Stephen Toope during his tenure as president of the University of British…

Elizabeth’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Prism, Room and many anthologies, most recently This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press), Shy: an anthology, Waiting and You…

Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to entering medical school, he studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and…

Christine lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family. She is an avid reader, but her true love is writing. She enjoys literary, classics, horror, and contemporary fiction. Her retirement from the world of accounting and business management, turned into a full-time writing career…

Kate Heartfield writes novels, novellas, stories and games. Her works include the historical fantasy novel The Embroidered Book (2022), and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes…

Michelle Hébert has turned the most difficult times in her life into stories that challenge, inspire, and remind us of the shared humanity that makes life sparkle. She has an MFA in creative non-fiction from the University of King’s College, and degrees and experience in…

Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist with an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King's College. Her articles appear in publications such as CIM Magazine, Explore, & The Globe Mail.  She pubilished Ring of…

Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in Literature.…

Sydney Hegele (formally Sydney Warner Brooman) is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021). They are the winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their poetry chapbook The Last Thing I Will See Before I…

Betty Jane Hegerat is a Calgary writer, social worker, and teacher. She has studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Sage Hill, the Banff Centre, and completed a MFA Creative Writing through UBC's low residency program in 2008.

Jaymie Heilman grew up in Alberta, Canada, and lived in Wisconsin, Peru, and Nova Scotia before circling back home to teach Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Alberta. She has published two history books with Stanford and Duke University Press and three…

Jason Armstrong is the author of the world-wide selling book Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator  http://solosexbook.com/  Solosexuals, in brief, are those for whom masturbation is their preferred sexual outlet.   Jason Armstrong is the writer of the blog Hunting for Sex:…

Born in a meteor crater, Matthew has published a novel, The City Still Breathing (Coach House Books) and a play Black Dog: 4 vs the wrld (Playwrights Canada Press). His short fiction has appeared in many publications, winning several awards including the Carter V. Cooper Award…