Canadian Authors Association - Writers helping writers since 1921

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What CAA does to support Canadian literary arts and artists:

Mentorship That Matters: Support for emerging and mid-career writers through our workshops, Writers in Residence program, and more. Writers helping writers!
Representation and Rights: Advocacy that protects Canadian authors’ voices – from copyright to AI ethics.
National Connection: A coast-to-coast-to-coast literary community fostering collaboration, learning, and visibility.
Youth and Equity Programs: Building access for marginalized voices and developing the next generation of Canadian storytellers.
A Voice in Shaping Canada’s Literary Future: Every donor strengthens the national narrative by uplifting Canadian authors through policy advocacy, support, and more.

Your generosity can help the CAA build a robust network of chapters coast to coast, supplement operational costs that support volunteer contributions, increase memberships, and provide financial stability for the association.

What We Do

Advocate for the protection of rights and equitable treatment for writers
Provide an online social networking community through our Circle.so platform
Help members promote their work through a members’ book catalogue, online directory, advertising opportunities, book fairs, readings, and workshops
Provide writers with up-to-date information on awards, contests, opportunities, calls for submissions and writing conferences and retreats via monthly national bulletins, branch newsletters, and the website
Provide learning opportunities for writers at every stage through webinars, podcasts, and CanWrite!—our national conference
Showcase Canada’s incredible literary talent through our literary awards, website, national bulletins, social media, and conference

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How to Join

Join our lively community of Canadian Authors today to meet fellow writers from all across the country, enjoy members-only benefits such as promotional opportunities and entrance to our online community platform (a networking and socializing opportunity for members), learn about the craft and business of writing, and oh, so much more! Whether you’re newly hit by the writing bug, or already a well established professional, our new membership tier system gives you more options and control over your own membership.

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MEMBERS ONLY: Canadian Authors Online Community Platform

Login to your CAA Circle Community by clicking the button above. Click the “Continue with WordPress (WP-OAuth)” button and use your CAA email and password to login. Through this platform, Canadian Authors members can network and connect online, post upcoming events and publication news, attend weekly write-in sessions, and contact staff or the National Board. Get the most out of your membership by staying active in this CAA Members only online social community and, most importantly, enjoy!

Author Advocacy

Join Your CAA Advocacy Committee Today!

Your Advocacy Committee stands strong in its resolution to advocate for Canadian Authors Association members. The committee continues to actively represent CAA creators on national committees such as Access Copyright Nominating Committee, Book and Periodical Council, and Copyright Working Group Coalition.

Keeping abreast of monumental issues facing creators such as amending the Copyright Act to ensure fair dealing and advocating for the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory framework are two of our commitments to CAA members.

We encourage you to add your voice to our committee as we enter a new stage in advocacy. It is a pivotal time for creators in Canada as cultural sovereignty takes centre stage, and we hope you will join us.

Apply now through THIS FORM.

Member News

Susan J. Atkinson

Susan J. Atkinson's (National Capital Region chapter) ong-listed suite, Alice, Circa 1985, will be published as a chapbook, re-titled as Alice...

Susan Wadds

Susan Wadds’ (Member-at-Large) debut novel (Regal House Publishing, 2024), What the Living Do, was a finalist for the Canadian Book...

Susan Mockler

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

Margaret Lynch

Margaret Lynch's (Toronto chapter) essay “Talisman” was published in 805 Lit + Art (Vol. 10, Issue 1), an award-winning US-based...

David Finnie

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

Norma Nicholson

Norma Nicholson (Toronto chapter) humbly accepted the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal from the Governor General of Canada at...

Genni Gunn

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

Nan Williamson

Nan Williamson's (Peterborough chapter) poem, "Poets Practice In These Times", was published by Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine in their print...

Donna Litt

Donna Litt’s (Member-at-Large) time-travel romance Where the Sun Sets has won the First Novel (Over 90,000 Words) category at the 2025...

Christopher Gorman

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

Martin Neil Campbell

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

Purabi Sinha Das

Purabi Sinha Das (Toronto Branch) has published her third book, Twenty-Two For 22, a collection of 22 stories, poems, and...

Karen Gansel

Karen Gansel (Niagara chapter), beloved CAA member and long-serving Board member, passed away in January 2025. Her novel The Inheritance...

K. R. Wilson

K. R. Wilson’s (Toronto Branch) novel Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia was longlisted for the Leacock Medal...

Patrick Connors

Patrick Connors (Toronto chapter) poem, "Darkness", was the featured poem in an issue of Canadian Stories magazine. His newest chapbook,...

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...

Neha Sharma

Neha Sharma (BC chapter) was awarded the Literary Titan Book Award Canada for her acclaimed poetry collection Spectator: Literary Discourses...

Marilyn Boyle Taylor

Marilyn Boyle Taylor (Toronto chapter) is pleased to announce the publication of 'Sconset Serenade: A Tale of Nantucket, the second...

Su Chang

Su Chang's (Toronto chapter) debut novel, The Immortal Woman, published by House of Anansi in March 2025, has won the...

Louise Rachlis

Louise Rachlis (National Capital Region chapter) had her story “Technology 101” selected for inclusion in Chicken Soup for the Soul:...

Arwinder Kaur

Arwinder Kaur (BC chapter) was Tellwell Publishing’s Author of the Month for July 2023. Arwinder's debut novel, Living While Human,...

Alexander Boldizar

Alexander Boldizar’s (BC chapter) novel, The Man Who Saw Seconds, is a top-ten finalist for the 2025 Locus Award in science fiction (winner...

Darlene Quaife

Darlene Quaife's (Member-at-Large) new novel, The Primitives, received a positive review in Freefall. Read the full review at https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-darlene-barry-quaifes-the-primitives/.

D.F. Whibley

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

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...

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...

Tara K. Torme

Tara K. Torme's (BC chapter) books, including Ite, Missa Est Volume II and In Conversation Volume IV, can be purchased...

Jacquie Dankner

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

Suzanne Craig-Whytock

Suzanne Craig-Whytock (Toronto chapter) is excited to announce the release of her second short story collection, Dark Nocturnes (JC Studio...

Liz Rachel Walker

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

John Passfield

Are you a committed writer? John Passfield (Toronto chapter) is pleased to invite writers in or near Hamilton to meet with other...

Robert W. Mackay

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

Jennifer Harris

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

C. Fitton

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

Scott Overton

Scott Overton (Member-at-Large) has published his 6th novel, Indigent Earth, a science fiction adventure with a strong theme of colonialism....

Nancy Chislett

Nancy Chislett (Member-at-Large), author of Bombing the Moon, did a Book Chat with the Manitoba Writers’ Guild. Bombing the Moon...

R. J. Hore

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

Barbara Wade Rose

Barbara Wade Rose's (Toronto) middle-grade children's (and childish adults') book, MARABEL or The Great Exception, tells of the adventures of a...

Anne Kathleen McLaughlin

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

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...

Liisa Kovala

Liisa Kovala (Member at Large) co-hosted the Rekindle Creativity: Women’s Writing Retreat in French River, Northeastern Ontario, with Dinah Laprairie...

Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman's (BC chapter) many publications, including The Silent Boy and Deadly Delivery, can be seen at http://petersfreeman.ca. Peter was...

Maureen Young

Maureen Young (BC chapter) is pleased to announce the publication of her second book, a companion coloring book in the...

Deborah Cannon

Deborah L. Cannon’s (Toronto chapter) feature article "Social Justice in Crime Fiction" was published in the Summer 2024 quarterly print...

Renee Sarojini Saklikar

Award-winning author Renee Sarojini Saklikar's (BC chapter) novels, including Book 2 of the THOT J BAP series, Bramah’s Quest, are available now...

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....

Sharon Frayne

The Sound of a Rainbow by Sharon Frayne (Niagara chapter), has received CBC Books Recommendations for YA Readers. As well...

Christine Bergsma

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

Melanie Marttila

Melanie Marttila (Member-at-Large) is pleased to announce the publication of three of her poems in The /tεmz/ Review, Issue 28,...

Doley Henderson

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

Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones (Toronto chapter) is excited to have published her second novel, The War on Sarah Morris, telling the story of a...

Ifeoma Chinwuba

Ms. Ifeoma Chinwuba (National Capital Region) was appointed Writer-in-Residence, 2021-2022, of the English and Film Studies Department at the University...

Karan Wadhwani

Karan Wadhwani (Member-at-Large) is thrilled to share that So You Want to Be a _ _ _? is officially released! Get...

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/.

Carol L. MacKay

Carol L. MacKay (BC chapter) has been prolific as of late. A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Brews (Longbridge Books,...

Lise Mayne

Lise Mayne (Member-at-Large) is thrilled that her historical fiction novel Time Enough, published December 2024, is now available at Indigo...

Nduka Otiono

Nduka Otiono (National Capital Region chapter) was shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry for his collection of poems,...

JC Sulzenko

JC Sulzenko (Toronto chapter) was delighted to celebrate National Poetry Month (NPM) with host Lynn Pickering on her 99.3 FM...

Idriz Hafiz

Idriz Hafiz (Member-at-Large) had his book Silencing Pain featured in The Globe and Mail. Read the article at https://www.theglobeandmail.com.

Hanna Park

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

Erin MacNair

Erin MacNair’s (BC chapter) story “Sand Penis," originally published in subTerrain magazine, will be included in the Biblioasis anthology Best Canadian...

Nancy M. Bell

Nancy M. Bell's (Member at Large) novel Kayla's Cowboy was released in November 2022 by BWL Publishing Inc. Kayla Dunbarton...

Michael Gates

Michael Gates (Member-at-Large) celebrated the launch of his seventh book, Hollywood in the Klondike (Harbour Publishing), with about 100 attendees...

Barbara Black

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

Elaine Cougler

Elaine Cougler (Member at Large) launched her seventh book, Canada: Brave New World, an anthology of shocking stories of beleaguered...

James Arnett

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

Pam Clark

Pam Clark (Advocacy Committee Member/Member-at-Large) is thrilled to share that two of her poems have been published in The Prairie...

Dorothee Komangapik

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

Suparna Ghosh

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

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli (Toronto chapter) attended the May 1st Montreal launch of A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and...

Kamal Parmar

Kamal Parmar's (BC chapter) most recent poetry book, Vanishing into the Blue, is available at https://www.amazon.ca/Vanishing-Into-Blue-Kamal-Parmar/dp/1774032937. Kamal served as Poet...

Valerie Behiery

Valerie Behiery's (Member at Large) novel From Curse to Conversion is available through Amazon and Kindle. Her publisher, Book Publishing...

Samar Samir Mezghanni

Samar Samir Mezghanni’s (National Capital Region chapter) novel Things (in Arabic) was featured on CNN prime time with Becky Anderson....

Gordon K. Jones

Gordon K. Jones (Toronto chapter) new crime fiction, Fighting for Decency, was released by DarkWinter Press on June 24 and...

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...

Maria Saba

Maria Saba (National Capital Region chapter), an Ottawa-based writer, Storyteller, and arts educator born and raised in Iran, has published...

Gail Dahl

Gail Dahl (Member-at-Large) is happy to announce the new Library Special Edition 2025 printing for her International Bestselling book Pregnancy...

Julie Wise

Julie Wise (BC chapter) is releasing chapters of Make No Mistake on Substack. It's a novel about a corrupt American...

Lucian Childs

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

Doug Jordan

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

Richard Pyves

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

Pamela Dillon

Pamela Dillon (Member at Large) won first place in the 58th New Millennium 2025 Writing Awards for Nonfiction with her...

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.

Joyce Goodwin

Joyce Goodwin's (BC chapter) poetry book, Fragments: A Poetry Mosaic (First Choice Books), is "a poetry collection created from fragmented...

Kati Lyon-Villiger

Kati Lyon-Villiger‘s (National Capital Region chapter) latest book, The Rahel Poems, has just been released and is available worldwide, penned...

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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NOVEMBER 15, 2025
CAA NATIONAL CAPTIAL REGION CHAPTER:
The Real Art of Writing Haiku, with Claudia Radmore
10:30 am ET
Nepean Centrepointe Library, 101 Centrepointe Dr., Ottawa, ON
Free for all.
SEE DETAILS HERE.

NOVEMBER 20, 2025
CAA TORONTO CHAPTER:
Worldbuilding Workshop, with JF Garrard and Phoebe An Lee
8:30 pm NT / 8:00 pm AT /
7:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm CT /
5:00 pm MT / 4:00 pm PT
Online via Zoom.
Free for CAA members; $25 for non-members.
REGISTER HERE.

DECEMBER 3, 2025
CAA BC CHAPTER: Winter Social
7:00 pm PT
50 8th St., New Westminster, BC
Free for CAA members; space for 25.
REGISTER HERE.

NOVEMBER 11, 18, & 25
National Write-In:
Tuesday Evening Sessions
8:30 pm NT / 8:00 pm AT /
7:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm CT /
5:00 pm MT / 4:00 pm PT
Free; CAA Members Only
RSVP HERE (LOGIN REQUIRED).

Canadian Authors Association gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Raymond James Canada Foundation for its recent grant, which is instrumental in supporting our new online Circle community platform.