Kathleen Winter’s first novel, Annabel, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards. Her earlier collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Kathleen began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a columnist for The Telegram …
Jessica Westhead
www.jessicawesthead.com Jessica Westhead’s fiction has appeared in major literary journals in Canada and the U.S., including Geist, The New Quarterly, and Indiana Review. Her novel Pulpy & Midge was published in 2007 by Coach House Books. Her short story collection And Also Sharks, published by Cormorant Books in spring 2011, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. She was …
Timothy Taylor
timothytaylor.ca Vancouver writer Timothy Taylor is the author of three novels, including the Giller Prize-nominated Stanley Park (also chosen as the “one Book One City” selection for Vancouver, and as a finalist for Canada Reads) and the prize-winning collection of short fiction, Silent Cruise. He is a winner of the Journey Prize for his short fiction, and has been acknowledged …
Susan Swan
Susan Swan’s critically acclaimed fiction has been published in twenty countries and her impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far-reaching. Swan’s last novel, What Casanova Told Me, was published in the US, Canada, Spain, Russia, Serbia, and Portugal, and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Swan’s other novels include The Wives of Bath (which …
Mary Swan
Mary Swan’s work has been widely published in the US and Canada. Her novella “The Deep” won both the Malahat Review Novella Prize and the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction. Her novel, the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist The Boys in the Trees, garnered international praise. When Mary sent me the piece below, which she’s deleting from her latest …
Savannah Carr
About Savannah: I should have been wary. I (Barbara) should have known that when I put out a call for writers to send me material they’d deleted from their work — or descriptions of characters who’d been axed because they’d got out of control — that Savannah would be listening. That she’d take it as an invitation to burst out …
Eva Stachniak
www.evastachniak.com Eva is a Canadian and Polish novelist and short story writerHer first novel, Necessary Lies, was winner of Amazon.ca Books in Canada First Novel Award. Garden of Venus was published both in Canada and internationally. Her latest, The Winter Palace, a novel of Catherine the Great, has just been published in Canada, the U.S., U.K., Holland, and Poland, to …
Antanas Sileika
antanassileika.ca Antanas Sileika is a Canadian novelist and critic, and Director of the Humber School for Writers, in Toronto. His latest novel, Underground (Thomas Allen & Son, 2011) is set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940’s “Entertaining and sometimes shocking,” says the National Post, “the book describes a little-known period of European history that …
Sarah Selecky
“Story is a State of Mind” :www.storyisastateofmind.com Sarah Selecky is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection This Cake is for the Party was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award in 2010. She has published short stories in The Walrus, Geist, The Journey Prize Anthology, The New Quarterly, and Prairie …
Adam Lewis Schroeder
www.adamlewisschroeder.com Penticton writer Adam Lewis Schroeder has traveled widely and published stories in more than a dozen journals and anthologies. In 2001 his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. His novel Empress of Asia was published by Raincoast in 2006 and Thomas Dunne in the US in 2008; a finalist for the Ethel …