Cynthia Holz is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in New York City and came to Toronto in 1976 as a Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. Her fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and…

David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952 of East European stock. He left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and lived in Europe and Toronto before moving to Montreal around 1980. He was educated in three countries and worked at a variety of industrial jobs before…

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…

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…

Children's book author with a passion for promoting literacy.

I am a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community radio host & producer. My poems, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction appear in publications across the U.S. and Canada, including Room Magazine, Geez magazine, Mutha magazine, Opus, Dialogue, catapult…

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…

Alyson Hope is a writer who currently lives in Montreal, the island of Tiohtià:ke – unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. In 2014, Hope received her Master’s Degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Based largely on ecocritical theory, her thesis…

   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…

​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…

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…

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…

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.

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…