Samantha M. Bailey is the USA TODAY, Amazon Charts, and #1 international bestselling author of WOMAN ON THE EDGE, WATCH OUT FOR HER, and A FRIEND IN THE DARK. Her novels have sold in twelve countries. She lives in Toronto, where she can usually be found…

Jen Lynn Bailey is an award-winning children’s picture book author and Ontario-certified elementary teacher. She loves playing with the sounds and rhythms of words while drawing on snippets and scraps from her life thus far. Jen has measured water quality, air quality, and the…

I am a Romanian born Canadian anthropologist, writer, and curator. I primarily focus on non-fiction and academic articles. I study human-technology interaction, climate change, and health using anthropological and art-based methods. Drawing from my practical experience in…

Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of three novels: What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw and The Selector of Souls. Her short fiction collections are: English Lessons and Other Stories, and We Are Not in Pakistan. Her awards include The Writers’ Union of Canada prize for…

Jonathan Ball holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary with specialization in Canadian Literature and Creative Writing. His short film Spoony B appeared on The Comedy Network, and his screenplay Way of the Samurai (co-written with David Navratil) was rewritten and directed…

Antonia Banyard is the author of one novel for adults, four non-fiction books for middle readers and two board books. She has a BA (University of Victoria) and a MPhil (University of Queensland), both in Writing. She has worked in book publishing and/or graphic design for 20-…

Dan Bar-el is an award-winning children’s author, educator and storyteller. His writing includes chapter books, picture books and graphic novels.

Adèle Barclay’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Heavy Feather Review, The Pinch, Fog Machine, The Puritan, PRISM international, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for…

Michelle Barker’s most recent publication is Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling, co-authored with David Griffin Brown (2023). Her novel My Long List of Impossible Things (2020) is published by Annick Press and is a Junior Library Guild gold standard…

Donna Barker is a career non-fiction ghostwriter and curriculum creator whose work has won national awards (which other people get to show on their shelves). Donna is the co-founder of The Creative Academy for Writers with her author pals Eileen Cook and Crystal (CJ) Hunt.…

Janet Barkhouse is a poet and writer. Salt Fires, her debut book of poetry (Pottersfield Press, 2018) follows on two chapbooks, Silence (2015) and Sable Island Fieldnotes: poems by Janet Barkhouse, photographs by Zoe Lucas, which launched in 2017. Her publications for…

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizen’s advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She is…

I have just completed my second book and like the rest of the world of writers am now actively seeking a publisher for THE FOUNDLING AND THE BASTARD, a reimagining of the true story of my great-great-grandparents who lived in and around Bath, Somerset during Regency times…

J.E. Barnard has two novel series and many short stories in print. They’ve won CWC Award of Excellence, Alberta Book of the Year, Saskatchewan Writers Guild award, and shortlistings for the UK Debut Dagger and the Prix Aurora. She’s a developmental and structural editor and a…

Lilly Barnes was born in Russia, studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Vienna, and worked for many years as an arts journalist and scriptwriter for CBC Radio and Television, including, for its entire run, the "Mr. Dressup" show for which she was awarded a…

Born in Salmon Arm, B.C., Deanna Kawatski travelled extensively in her twenties, her wandering financed by tree planting back in B.C. In 1974 she studied writing with George Ryga and in 1975 with W.O. Mitchell. Later Deanna spent thirteen years leading a pioneer existence in the…

Gavin Barrett is a poet and creative entrepreneur, and the author of Understan, a new collection of poems published by Mawenzi House in June 2020. Gavin was born in Bombay, of Anglo-Indian and Goan East African parentage. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St…

Sylvia N. Barrett was born in Whitehorse, Yukon. A Ryerson journalism graduate, she spent a decade working as a daily newspaper reporter before moving to magazines. Sylvia has been senior editor at The Walrus and Canadian Geographic, founding editor of Ottawa Magazine,…

Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and TV Ontario, and regular contributions to the Globe and Mail and the National Post, Barris has authored 20 non-fiction books, including a dozen bestsellers on Canadians in…