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Mississauga
Mississauga
   Bio Shahanaz is a Canadian Author, teacher and presenter  who is also member of TWUC and League of Canadian poets.  She came from Bangladesh as a young woman. She believes: "human setting" is like  seasonal plant,  very short so, every single second meant to be positively…
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…
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…
Toronto
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…
London
Meg
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.  Updates to follow before publication.
Penticton
Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia, Canada
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…
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…
Orillia
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…
Terence Bay
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, has…
Toronto
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
Chilliwack
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 and teaches in the…
Dieppe
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…
Bay of Fundy
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.
Halifax
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 other accolades.…
Orillia
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…
Toronto
Toronto
Susan Hughes is a writer and editor, specializing in children's materials. Susan has loved reading and writing since she was a child. When she was in grade five and six, she and several friends had a writing club. "We'd gather with our most recent poems and stories and read them…
Vancouver
Vancouver
It was while riding a motorcycle across British Columbia for over a decade that Trevor Marc Hughes began writing about the history of his home province in Nearly 40 on the 37 and Zero Avenue to Peace Park. He then developed late B.C. naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing’s account of…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Alison Hughes has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the CBC Nonfiction Prize and won the Writers’ Union of Canada Writing for Children Award and Alberta’s R. Ross Annett Award. Her books have been nominated 14 times for children’s choice awards…
Breslau
Breslau
Carolyn is an elementary teacher who loves to visit other schools to share her love of reading and writing. She lives in Breslau, Ontario with her husband and two children. Her debut picture book, The Little Boy Who Lived Down the Drain, was a 2018 Blue Spruce Honour Book, and…