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Canadian Authors Association is—and always has been—a membership-based organization for writers at all stages of their writing careers: aspiring, emerging, and professional.

Join us for professional development and networking opportunities with people who care about the craft and business of writing as much as you do.

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Step with us into the future of Canadian Authors Association!

We will be releasing some major announcements in the next few days and weeks, including details on the launch of our new social community platform for our members, more exciting events and webinars, an online shop to buy your CAA branded items from, and big proposals for the future.

Canadian Authors Members, please keep a lookout for an email from us in the near future with instructions on joining our new online community, Circle.so. 

Last Call to Submit to Fred Kerner Book Award!

If you are a current CAA member who published a book in 2023, submit your publication by end of day today (postmark date must be no later than March 1, 2024), for the chance to win $400 and a one-year membership with Canadian Authors Association. See full entry details and eligibility criteria at https://canadianauthors.org/national/awards/submit-for-an-award/.

A shortlist of the top five entries will be announced by early June, and the winner will be announced during the association’s annual general meeting (AGM) in June 2024.

Find out about our 2023 winner Sophie Jai (Wild Fires, HarperCollins Publishers) and shortlisted authors Catherine Graham (The Most Cunning Heart, Palimpsest Press) and Dawn Promislow (Wan, Freehand Books) at https://canadianauthors.org/national/2023-fred-kerner-book-award-shortlist/.

The Whistler Independent Book Awards (WIBA’s)

Become a Canadian Authors WIBA reviewer at
https://independentbookawards.ca/wiba-reviewers-questionnaire/

Once again in 2024 the Whistler Independent Book Awards offers members of Canadian Authors the opportunity to volunteer as reviewers. Reviewers are asked to read and assess up to three books, generally in their preferred genre, between June 15 and August 10. If you reviewed in a previous year and you wish to do so again please email WIBA/CAA Reviews Coordinator Bob Mackay at robert@robertwmackay.ca. If you are a new reviewer please fill in the form at this link. CAA Reviewers will receive their books in early June along with guidelines and instructions.

Canadian Authors and the WIBAs applaud and thank our reviewers. This is truly “Writers helping writers.”

Submissions for the WIBAs 2024 will open March 1.

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Your Advocacy Committee has been working hard!

Check out our latest media release for Canadian Authors’ response to the recent Federal Court ruling against Access Copyright in the legal action involving the Ontario school boards and provincial/territorial education ministries (except for British Columbia and Quebec) at Media Releases | Canadian Authors Association.

The 2024 Canadian Authors & SF Canada Wednesday Webinar Series Returns on March 13!

Canadian Authors partnership with SF Canada continues into 2024, and we’re excited to present yet another year of engaging and informative webinars.

Find full details and register at Webinars | Canadian Authors Association.

Member News

Jane Callen

Jane Callen (BC Branch) can be heard discussing her novel, Bernini's Elephant, on the Writers Radio recent podcast at https://writersradio.ca/podcasts/P078-jane-callen/.
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Anne Kathleen McLaughlin

Anne Kathleen McLaughlin's (National Capital Region Branch) novel Singing the Dawn is now available for online orders HERE. A small...
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Robert W. Mackay

Robert W. Mackay (BC Branch) has sold his manuscript, set in Canada's war in Korea from 1950 - 1953. Now...
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Andrew Palmer

Andrew Palmer's (Toronto Branch) debut literary novel, The Bridge, is receiving fantastic critical reviews. From Indiereader.com, to Reedsy, and OnlineBookClub.org, this...
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Christine Bergsma

Christine Bergsma (Toronto) converted a screenplay that was listed as a semi-finalist in the Austen Film Festival into a historical...
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Julie Wise

Julie Wise (BC Branch) recently had a poem published on the “Writing in A Woman's Voice” online blog. You can...
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Yvonne Van Lankveld

Yvonne Van Lankveld (Niagara Branch) is thrilled to launch her second novel, The Park Street Secrets, at the Lincoln Pelham...
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Arwinder Kaur

Arwinder Kaur (BC Branch) is Tellwell Publishing’s Author of the Month for July 2023. Arwinder's debut novel, Living While Human, has won...
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Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones (Toronto Branch) is excited to announce the publication of her second novel, The War on Sarah Morris. This...
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Martin Neil Campbell

Martin Neil Campbell’s (Toronto) second published book Essential Life Behaviors (January 2022, Core Driver Press) is available on Amazon. It...
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Christopher Gorman

Christopher Gorman’s (Toronto) latest short story, Finding Balance, is featured in an anthology titled Dreaming the Goddess, now available on...
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Scott Overton

On September 30, Scott Overton (Member at Large) published his 6th novel, Indigent Earth, a science fiction adventure with a...
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Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier (Member at Large) will launch her poetry collection, Wavelengths of Your Song/Wellenlängen deines Liedes (McGill-Queen's University Press /parasistenpresse), in German...
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Willie Handler

Willie Handler (Toronto) is thrilled to announce the release of his latest black comedy crime thriller Deep Into the Weeds,...
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Carmel M. Toussaint

Carmel M. Toussaint (Toronto Branch) is pleased to announce her new book, Humanity’s Struggles with Inequality: More Inequality Divides – Less Inequality...
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Rick Prashaw

Rick Prashaw (National Capital Region Branch) is being hosted by Pembroke Library to give a Pride talk, celebrating solidarity with...
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Wei Djao

Wei Djao’s (Toronto Branch) second edition of her book A Humanist Path: Confucius and Lao Zi for Today was published by...
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Sharon Frayne

The Sound of a Rainbow, a new novel by Sharon Frayne (Niagara Branch), has received CBC Books Recommendations for YA...
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Lori Hahnel

Lori Hahnel’s (Member at Large) fifth book is forthcoming from University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series on September...
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Nancy Chislett

Nancy Chislett (Member at Large), author of Bombing the Moon, will be doing a Book Chat with the Manitoba Writers’...
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Barbara Black

Barbara Black (BC Branch) won First Prize in the Fiction category of the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society (SCWES)...
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Christine Topjian

Christine Topjian (Toronto Branch) has been awarded the eLit Awards 2022 Bronze Medal for her children’s book, The Chrissie Series:...
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Hope West

Hope West (BC Branch) welcomes you to the Forest of Consciousness, our mysterious inner landscape where hints and metaphors introduce...
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May Q. Wong

May Q. Wong (BC) is honoured to share her contribution to the new 4-part series, BLK: An Origin Story, launched...
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TP Wood

TP Wood (Member at Large) celebrates the launch of his debut novel, 77° North, at the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia...
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Dr. Ian Prattis

Dr. Ian Prattis (National Capital Region) has a new poetry book coming out in the spring of 2022 called Four...
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Nan Williamson

Nan Williamson (Peterborough) will have her poem, "Poets Practice In These Times", published by Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine in their next...
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Aubrey Kagan

Aubrey Kagan (Toronto Branch) is pleased to announce the publication of his first non-technical book, his mother’s “autobiography”, entitled A...
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Betty Guenette

Betty Guenette (Member at Large) will have her mystery novel, A Burning We Will Die, available April 19 through Renaissance...
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Lana M. H. Guzman

Lana M. H. Guzman (Toronto Branch) is pleased to announce her new short stories “The Countryside Stories: Johnny is Finalizing...
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Richard Pyves

Richard Pyves’ (Toronto) book, Sir John James Taylor De Facto Ruler of Ireland: Assistant Under-Secretary of Ireland 1918-1920, is available...
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Jason Waddle

Jason Waddle’s (Member at Large) second book, Falling Through the Cracks, will be released on January 6, 2023.
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Wendy Sarkissian

Wendy Sarkissian’s (BC Branch) memoir Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues has made it to #1 Amazon Bestseller in...
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C. Fitton

C. Fitton (Toronto Branch) is excited to announce the publication of her debut novel, Her Dead Boyfriend, a gripping thriller...
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Jeffrey Kippel and Mindy Blackstien

Attention wordsmiths! Jeffrey Kippel and Mindy Blackstien (Toronto Branch) don't want you to miss out on the new audiobook version...
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Jean Van Loon

Jean Van Loon’s (National Capital Region) second poetry book, Nuclear Family, was published in April 2022 by McGill-Queen's University Press....
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Gwen Tuinman

Gwen Tuinman (Toronto Branch) has just signed a deal with Random House Canada for publication of her latest historical novel,...
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JF Garrard

JF Garrard (Toronto), a Toronto-based publisher/writer/editor, has created an ongoing podcast about writing and publishing, "The Artsy Raven," which is released bi-weekly. Writers...
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Carolyn Trickey-Bapty

Carolyn Trickey-Bapty's (Member at Large) new book To My Boy Baby is her first foray into children’s literature. In a...
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James Arnett

James Arnett’s (Toronto Branch) novel Bean Fate was reviewed in the Winnipeg Free press. See full review HERE.
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Lucian Childs

Lucian Childs (Toronto Branch) has had his debut novel-in-stories, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis), favorably reviewed in The New York Times. Kia Corthron calls...
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Mark Vulliamy

Mark Vulliamy (BC Branch) will read from his novel Through Thorns on December 13 at the Vancouver Public Library Writers...
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Genni Gunn

Genni Gunn’s (BC Branch) novel Tracing Iris has been published in Italian as Alla Ricerca di Iris by Les Flâneurs...
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D. Neil Elliott

D. Neil Elliott’s (BC) book, A Higher Road, was recently published and is available on Amazon and in bookstores. A Higher...
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Monique Layton

Monique Layton’s (Metro Vancouver) book, Everyday Evil: Why Our World Is the Way It Is (Tidewater Press, 2019), was a finalist for the...
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Louise Rachlis

Louise Rachlis (National Capital Region Branch) wrote the book Feeling Good: Life lessons from my friends 10 years ago for her...
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Tonya Liburd

Tonya Liburd (Toronto) has been interviewed by the folks over at What's In The Box podcast, https://telluswhatsinthebox.podbean.com/e/ep-36-soucouyants-guest-tonya-liburd/. "Settle in with...
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Christopher Butt

Christopher Butt (Niagara Branch) has been shortlisted for the Dark Winter Literary Magazine 1st Anniversary Contest, for “Shortlist Saturdays: A...
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Anne Lazurko

Anne Lazurko’s (Member at Large) novel What Is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the $20,000...
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Barbara Wade Rose

Barbara Wade Rose's (Toronto) middle-grade children's (and childish adults') book, MARABEL or The Great Exception, was published in November: the adventures...
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Kathleen S. Schmitt

Kathleen S. Schmitt's (BC) novel Magnificat will be published in the spring of 2022 by Inanna Publications in Toronto. Her...
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Susan Wadds

Susan (Deepam) Wadds (Member at Large) is delighted to announce that an unprecedented (for her) three of her short pieces have been recently accepted...
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Doley Henderson

Doley Henderson (Toronto Branch) is thrilled to share that she won the 2023 Eden Mills Writers' Festival (EMWF) Creative Nonfiction...
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Samar Samir Mezghanni

Samar Samir Mezghanni’s (National Capital Region Branch) novel Things (in Arabic) was featured on CNN prime time with Becky Anderson...
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Cathalynn Labonté-Smith and Frances Peck

Cathalynn Labonté-Smith and Frances Peck (BC Branch) will read and discuss tales of disaster and rescue, real and imagined, in...
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Melanie Marttila

Melanie Marttila (Member at Large) is pleased to announce that her short story, "Psychopomps Are Us", will appear in the...
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Hasib Iftekhar

Hasib Iftekhar (Toronto) received big applause for his poetry recital at Willowdale Winterfest on January 30, 2022. Voiceover for audiobooks...
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Ifeoma Chinwuba

Ms. Ifeoma Chinwuba (National Capital Region) has been appointed Writer-in-Residence, 2021-2022, of the English and Film Studies Department at the...
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Carol L. MacKay

Carol L. MacKay (Metro Vancouver) has been announced the winner of the 2020 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry for her...
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Maureen Young

Maureen Young (BC Branch) is pleased to announce the publication of her books, Sunny and the Border Patrol and Sunny...
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K. R. Wilson

K. R. Wilson’s (Toronto) tragical-historical-comical novel Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia — in which a self-described immortal...
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Hanna Park

Hanna Park's (Toronto) debut novel, Finding Tiegan, is now available to the big wide world. Published by The Wild Rose...
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Bill Arnott

Bill Arnott’s (BC) new travel memoir, Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries, the sequel to his award-winning bestseller Gone Viking: A...
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Maria Saba

Maria Saba (National Capital Region), an Ottawa-based writer, Storyteller, and arts educator was awarded the 2021 Wallace Stegner Grant for...
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Lise Mayne (pen name LG Pomerleau)

Lise Mayne, pen name LG Pomerleau, (Member at Large) has a poem entitled “Take Ten”, about the life and untimely death of...
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Lorrie Potvin

Lorrie Potvin’s (National Capital Region) follow-up memoir to First Gear - A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), Horses in the Sand, is being published...
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Susan Sommers

Susan Sommers (Toronto Branch) is thrilled to announce the release of her new audiobook, The Magic of Walking: Your Guide...
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Susan J. Atkinson

Susan J. Atkinson (National Capital Region Branch) will join five award-winning Ottawa Poets to finally celebrate their debut collections in...
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Purabi Sinha Das

Purabi Sinha Das (Toronto Branch) is thrilled to announce her debut novel, Moonlight – The Journey Begins, is a book...
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Doug Jordan

Doug Jordan (National Capital Region) has published his latest novel, The Treasure of Stella Bay, a nostalgia trip for anyone...
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Tamel Wino

Tamel Wino’s (Metro Vancouver Branch) debut book, Ekleipsis, which was released on December 18th 2020, has won a Reader Views bronze award...
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Samreen Ahsan

Samreen Ahsan (Toronto Branch), international award-winning author, is pleased to announce her third book in the [Stolen] Series, Once Upon A [Broken] Time....
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Gordon K. Jones

Gordon K. Jones's (Toronto Branch) novel, Saving Tiberius, has been translated into Arabic and is being promoted by Bookland Press...
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Vera Constantineau

Vera Constantineau (Member at Large), Poet Laureate of Greater Sudbury, presented a reading as part of an 'International Voices' presentation...
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Suparna Ghosh

Suparna Ghosh (Toronto Branch) invites you to take a short ride with her through her blog series at https://suparnaghosh.com/2023/02/07/past-months-in-my-blind-spot/.
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John Van Rys

John Van Rys (Niagara Branch) has won the 2022 Prairie Fire MRB Short Fiction Contest. His winning story, "Excavations," will be published...
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Vanessa Farnsworth

Vanessa Farnsworth (Member at Large) will be teaching a series of free genealogy workshops at libraries throughout the Kootenays this fall....
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Anne M. Smith-Nochasak

Anne M. Smith-Nochasak’s (Member at Large) second novel, The Ice Widow: A Story of Love and Redemption, was released November 2022....
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Maurice Suwa

Maurice Suwa (Affiliate Member) is pleased to announce the publication of The Great White Knot, his fun Canada-themed Puzzle book....
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Aaron S. Bayley

Aaron S. Bayley (Toronto) recently published his first book, Why Baseball Is A Sport and Golf Is Not: Separating the...
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Pamela Dillon

Pamela Dillon’s (Member at Large) poem, When Love Drifts, will be published in the early winter issue (2022) of The...
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Deborah Cannon

Deborah Cannon’s (Toronto Branch) story “Tang’s Christmas Miracle”, first published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada (2014), was selected...
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Jacquie Dankner

Jacquie Dankner’s (Member at Large) debut novel Unscented, a paranormal, romantic suspense (self-published through FriesenPress), is now available for purchase...
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Naomi Eliana Pommier Steinberg

Naomi Eliana Pommier Steinberg (Metro Vancouver) held a book reading and storytelling event for Goosefeather: Once Upon a Cartographic Adventure,...
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Marilyn Boyle Taylor

Marilyn Boyle Taylor, poet /songwriter Marilyn Boyle, (Toronto Branch) has recently published her first novel, Dream's End:  A Tale of...
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Sophie Jai

Sophie Jai’s (Toronto Branch) Wild Fires, the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award Winner, has also been longlisted for the 2023...
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Jennifer Harris

Jennifer Harris (Peterborough Branch) is thrilled to declare the publication of her new book Whisper Their Names: The journey to...
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Seye Oloruntoba

Seye Oloruntoba (Toronto Branch) is thrilled to announce her new young reader's book, Who Will Wear the Crown?, has just...
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Karen Schauber

Karen Schauber is pleased to announce that CAA Vancouver Writers Circle has an opening for a new member. Like them,...
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Anna V. Leigh

Anna V. Leigh (Toronto) is delighted to make her authorial debut with The Russian Girl: A Noir Romance. The novel tells the...
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Malak K. Chehab

Malak K Chehab’s poetry collection, Perfectly Flawed, made the finalist list for the 2023 Canadian Book Club Awards. Malak wants...
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Frank Spezzano

Frank Spezzano’s (Toronto) new book, Desires... Of Love, will be released in December 2021. Stay tuned for more details on his...
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Renee Sarojini Saklikar

Join award-winning author, Renee Sarojini Saklikar (BC Branch), for the launch of her new book, Bramah's Quest, an epic fantasy...
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Rosanna Battigelli

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli's (Toronto Branch) Pigeon Soup & Other Stories (Inanna Publications, 2021) was honoured as a Finalist in the 2022 International Book...
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Tina Kamakaris

Tina Kamakaris’s (Toronto) publishing company, Owl Publishing, is pleased to announce one of their authors, A. H. Nedani, has won...
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John Passfield

John Passfield (Toronto Branch), author of Glenn Gould: Light and Dark (Rocks Mills Press), recently posted his 200th video-reading on...
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Bill Waiser

Bill Waiser’s (Member at Large) latest book, In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation, was launched at the One...
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Catherine Graham

Catherine Graham’s (Toronto Branch) ninth book, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected, appears this April....
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Ken Puddicombe

Author/ Poet Ken Puddicombe’s (Toronto Branch) collection of short stories, Down Independence Boulevard and Other Stories, was awarded the 2022...
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Raymond Beauchemin

Raymond Beauchemin (Member at Large) will read from his new book, The Emptiest Quarter, a collection of novellas set in...
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Tara K. Torme

Tara K. Torme (BC Branch) has published two new books this year, Ite, Missa Est Volume II and In Conversation...
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Jane Baird Warren

Jane Baird Warren’s (Member at Large) debut middle grade novel, How to Be a Goldfish (Scholastic, 2022), has been named...
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Michael Gates

Michael Gates (Member at Large) celebrated the launch of his seventh book, Hollywood in the Klondike (Harbour Publishing), with about...
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P.L. Stuart

P.L. Stuart (Member at Large) is thrilled to announce the release of The Last of the Atalanteans (published by FriesenPress),...
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Kelly Allers

Kelly Allers (BC), a young family man with a dream of becoming a career fantasy novelist, has self-published his first book...
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Susan Mockler

Susan Mockler’s (Member at Large) memoir, Fractured, detailing her experiences of acquired physical disability following a car accident that left...
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Kamal Parmar

Kamal Parmar (BC Branch), Poet Laureate of City of Nanaimo, is to do a reading along with other local poets at...
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Karen Gansel

Karen Gansel’s (Niagara Branch) family drama, The Inheritance, was published in October 2022 and is available through Amazon.ca (eBook and...
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Kieran Egan

Kieran Egan's (BC), first novel, Tenure, has been published by NeWest Press. An entertaining comic campus thriller, in which a drug...
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Catherine Little

Catherine Little‘s (Toronto Branch) picture book, Twelve in a Race (Plumleaf Press), illustrated by Sae Kimura and published March 30,...
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Erin MacNair

Erin MacNair (BC Branch) won first place in the 2023 PRISM International Grouse Grind Very Short Lit award for “No...
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Pamela Paterson

The novel Take Me Back to Cairo by bestselling author Pamela Paterson (National Capital Region) and Tarek Hussein is “compelling and heartwarming”,...
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Liisa Kovala

Liisa Kovala (Member at Large) won first prize in Geist’s 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest. Her story, “Surveillance”,...
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John Bennett

John Bennett (BC) is excited to announce the publication of his first book, Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning...
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David Finnie

David Finnie's (Toronto Branch) unpublished manuscript, “Unrewarded Risks”, is a finalist in the Page Turner Awards. “Unrewarded Risks” follows Samuel...
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Richard Tattoni

Richard Tattoni (Niagara Branch) has published work this past year available through his website and through Amazon. Besides the publication...
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JoAnn Catania

JoAnn Catania (Toronto) is happy to announce the release of the audiobook version of her novel, A Scarcity of Virgins,...
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Suzanne Craig-Whytock

Suzanne Craig-Whytock's (Toronto Branch) latest novel, Charybdis, (March 2024, JC Studio Press), is now available for purchase at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CW1MD9ZZ/?tag=a_fwd-20. Follow Greta Randall, a...
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K.S. Covert

K.S. Covert's (National Capital Region Branch) debut novel, The Petting Zoos, will be released May 24 in Canada (June 21...
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Rebecca St. Pierre

Rebecca St. Pierre (Member at Large), a freelance writer and photographer, is pleased to announce her poem about the war...
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Frances Boyle

Frances Boyle’s (National Capital Region) third poetry book, Openwork and Limestone, was published by Frontenac House in October 2022. After fall...
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Guglielmo D’Izzia

Guglielmo D’Izzia (Toronto) is pleased to announce that his debut novel, The Transaction, has won the 2021 IPPY Awards Silver Medal in...
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Patrick Connors

Patrick Connors (Toronto Branch) poem, "Darkness", is the featured poem in the current issue of Canadian Stories magazine. His newest...
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Joyce Goodwin

Joyce Goodwin (BC Branch) is launching her poetry book, Fragments: A Poetry Mosaic, at St. Clement's Church in Lynn Valley,...
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Dorothee Komangapik

Dorothee Komangapik (Member at Large) is pleased to announce the release of her book, Ukuaq: A Woman's Arctic Memoir (Crowe Creations,...
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Jerena Tobiasen

Jerena Tobiasen (BC Branch) is delighted to announce the release of her fourth novel, Tsarina’s Crown, the first story in The Nightingale...
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R. J. Hore

R. J. Hore's (Member at Large) final omnibus volume, #4 of The Housetrap Chronicles, featuring the novellas in his fantasy...
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Darlene Madott

Darlene Madott (Toronto Branch) invites you to the launch of Winners and Losers (Guernica Editions) on Sunday, April 30, at...
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Mike Phelan

Mike Phelan (BC) is pleased to announce the October 2021 launch of his historical fiction novel, The Secret of Bell...
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Liz Rachel Walker

Liz Rachel Walker (BC Branch) was runner-up in the 2022 Debut Dagger competition, offered by the UK Crime Writers' Association...
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Keith Inman

Keith Inman (Niagara Branch) participated in a Poets and Painters Reveal at the Niagara Falls Public Library April 30. The...
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Christopher Canniff

Christopher Canniff‘s (Toronto Branch) audiobook of Intervals of Hope (Blue Denim Press, 2021) is now available. The amazing voice talent...
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Elaine Cougler

Elaine Cougler (Member at Large) will be interviewing Stephen Leacock medal winner and Canadian icon Terry Fallis at “An Evening...
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Sylvia Barnard

Sylvia Barnard (Niagara) from Penetanguishene, Ontario is pleased to announce the publication of her début novel, Rhubarb, Strawberries, and Willows,...
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Adam Smith

Adam Smith (Toronto Branch) is pleased to announce the completion of his mystery trilogy entitled, The Freedom Flaw. These three novels...
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Linda Walsh

Linda Walsh’s (Toronto Branch) novel, At Half-Light A Story of Tango and Memory, has been released through Kenton Road Press.
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Jass Aujla

Jass Aujla (Toronto Branch) invites you to the launch of Next of Twin (SparkPress) on May 21, at the Indigo bookstore in the...
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Nina Shoroplova

Nina Shoroplova’s (Metro Vancouver Branch) book, Legacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver’s Stanley Park (Heritage House Publishing, 2020), is a finalist for...
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Mike Mulcahy

Mike Mulcahy (Metro Vancouver) has released his first cookbook entitled Feast On This: A Collection of Inspired Recipes & Life Stories That...
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Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman (BC Branch) is pleased that his fifth book, Deadly Delivery, with be published in March 2023 by Adelaide...
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Jean Baker

Jean Baker (Niagara Branch) is delighted to announce her historical fiction novel Albatross Hall has now been published by Friesen Press. Available...
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Todd H. William

Todd H. William (Toronto Branch) has won first place in the general category of the 2023 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards...
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Donalee Moulton

The official launch of Donalee Moulton's (Member at Large) new mystery, Hung Out to Die, will take place on Sunday,...
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Janice Barrett

Janice Barrett’s (Niagara Branch) book, Authorized Cruelty, will be released on October 1, 2023, by Blue Denim Press.
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Jolie Phuong Hoang

Jolie Phuong Hoang (Niagara Branch) will be reading from her nonfiction book, Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and...
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Nduka Otiono

Nduka Otiono (National Capital Region Branch) has been shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry for his new collection...
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Rita Miceli

Rita Miceli (Niagara Branch) launches Giaci and Me: A Mother's Journey of Loving and Raising an Autistic Child on March...
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Marc Todd

Marc Todd (Niagara Branch) is delighted to announce that his horror/thriller fiction novel Chains has now been published and is available for sale...
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Nancy M. Bell

Nancy M. Bell's (Member at Large) new novel Kayla's Cowboy will be released in November 2022 by BWL Publishing Inc....
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D.F. Whibley

One Arctic Night by D.F. Whibley (Member at Large) of Montreal, QC, has won The Canadian Book Club Award for...
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Doreen Vanderstoop

Doreen Vanderstoop (Member at Large), author of Watershed, will participate in an online panel as part of Talking Fresh 2022,...
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Ken McGoogan

Having published five books on Arctic exploration, Ken McGoogan (Toronto Branch) is finding answers in the north. Searching for Franklin,...
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Frances Peck

Frances Peck (BC Branch) will launch her new novel, Uncontrolled Flight, at Audreys Books in Edmonton at 7:00 pm on...
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Gerald Richardson Brown

Gerald Richardson Brown (Metro Vancouver) has finished his trilogy of three books linked by the contents of a sea chest...
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