Chief Lady Bird is an Anishinaabe artist/illustrator from Rama First Nation. She graduated from OCADU in 2015 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Indigenous Visual Culture. She is the illustrator ...

Willie Poll is a proud Metis author from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, who who has spent the last ten years working in Indigenous education. She is very passionate about supporting Indigenous youth to reach ...

Garry Gottfriedson is a Secwepemc poet with ten books to his credit. In 1987, he attended the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado where he studied creative writing under such instructors as Allen Ginsberg ...

Randy Fred is an Elder of Tseshaht First Nation who survived nine years at the Alberni Indian Residential School. After a lifelong career in multi-media, he is currently the Nuu-chah-nulth Elder at Vancouver ...

David Ly is the author of the poetry collections Mythical Man (shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award) and Dream of Me as Water. He is the poetry editor at This Magazine.

Gabe Calderon (they/them & kiin/wiin) is a two spirit, trans-non binary and queer white settler with Indigenous ancestry. They originate from Omawinini Anishinabeg aki (Ottawa) and currently thrive in ...

We're thrilled to announce that Carmella Gray-Cosgrove has won the $12,500 BMO Winterset Award for her debut story collection Nowadays and Lonelier. 

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose have been named as finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards.

A Dream of a Woman, Casey Plett's acclaimed story collection, has been named a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature.

Watch this conversation between actor and activist Malia Baker and author Catherine Hernandez about Catherine's novel Scarborough, which Malia is defending in this year's edition of CBC's Canada Reads.