Cedar Bowers‘s short fiction has been published in Joyland, Taddle Creek, and The Malahat Review. Astra, her debut novel, was nominated for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. With her husband, novelist Michael Christie, and their two children, she divides her time between Galiano Island and Victoria, Coast Salish Territory of the Lkwungen speaking people, the … Read more
Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou has published seven books and co-edited Writing the Body in Motion, a collection of essays on Canadian Sport Literature. A starred-review in New York’s Booklist declared her best-selling memoir, Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom, “a first rate memoir and a fine example of narrative nonfiction.” This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Memoir launched this … Read more
Jónína Kirton is a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007, where she is now an instructor. Although she acknowledges and is thankful for the teachings offered through academic institutions, she leans heavily into what some term ‘other ways of knowing’. Her writing is often a weaving … Read more
Anosh Irani’s novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Quill and Quire, the National Post, The Walrus, and CBC Books. His play, Bombay Black, won … Read more
Michael Christie is the author of the novel If I Fall, If I Die, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick, as well as being on numerous best-of 2015 lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar’s Garden, was longlisted for … Read more
David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut novel, Soucouyant, was nominated for eleven literary awards, including shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Brother, his second novel, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto Book Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Brother was also a … Read more
The Writing Week Facilitator Caroline Adderson is the author of four novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice, The Sky is Falling, Ellen in Pieces), two collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings, Pleased to Meet You) as well as fifteen books for young readers. She is also the editor and co-contributor of a non-fiction book of essays and … Read more