We're thrilled that Jamie Chai Yun Liew's novel Dandelion has been longlisted for the 2023 edition of CBC's Canada Reads!

Roger Mooking is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and visual and recording artist born in Trinidad and raised in Canada. He is the host of such television shows as Man Fire Food, Heat ...

Tara Sidhoo Fraser is a queer writer and creator of South Asian and Scottish ancestry. She graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA in Anthropology, and her work has been published with Autostraddle ...

Mx. Sly is a non-binary writer, theatre creator, and producer. Their first play, Charisma Furs, was published in the anthology Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts (finalist in the 2019 Lambda Literary ...

L.L. Kreider hails from a village in the US but has lived in other parts of the globe for over two decades. She continues to hone her translation skills, wherever in the world she may be.

Can Dundar is a Turkish journalist and documentary filmmaker and the former editor-in-chief of the Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. One of the most prominent figures in Turkish media, Dundar is the 2016 ...

Anwar is an Egyptian Sudanese comic artist and political cartoonist. He was among the new wave of young political cartoonists who emerged in Egypt in the final years of former dictator Hosni Mubarak. ...

Emily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author and creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia. Her audio play, The Witch's Circle, was recently produced by Odyssey Theatre. Her books ...

Nick Marino is a writer, comedian, and elementary school teacher. He has performed at Just for Laughs Northwest and curated a series of comedy and music shows called Bite of the Underground. East Side ...

Marita Dachsel is the author of the poetry collections There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, Glossolalia, and All Things Said & Done, and the play Initiation Trilogy. Her essays have appeared in multiple anthologies. ...