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Please join us in congratulating all five finalists of the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award!

Dreaming Home (Biblioasis) by Lucian Childs, Windsor, ON

Sons of the East (Griots Lounge Canada) by Ifeoma Chinwuba, Ottawa, ON

Anecdotes (Book*hug Press) by Kathryn Mockler, Victoria, BC

Obaasan’s Boots (Second Story Press) by Lara Jean Okihiro, Toronto, ON, and Janis Bridger, Vancouver, BC

Catinat Boulevard (Freehand Books) by Caroline Vu, Montreal, QC

See full details and author bios at http://canadianauthors.org/national/2024-fred-kerner-book-award-shortlist/.

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Member News

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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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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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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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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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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Gordon K. Jones

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

Margaret Lynch (Toronto chapter) had an essay published in 805 Lit + Art (Vol. 10, Issue 1), an award-winning US-based...
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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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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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Rosanna Battigelli

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli (Toronto chapter) will be reading and presenting at the AICW (Association of Italian-Canadian Writers) Biennial Conference, "The...
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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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Deborah Cannon

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

James R.D. Hilton (Member at Large) is delighted to announce the release of his debut novel, Into the Known Universe: A Cosmic...
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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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Melanie Marttila

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

Karen Gansel’s (Niagara chapter) new novel The Inheritance is now available for purchase in both hardback and paperback copy. Read...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kamal Parmar

Kamal Parmar (BC Branch), Poet Laureate of Nanaimo, is launching her newly published poetry book, Vanishing into the Blue, at...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Susan Wadds

Susan Wadds’ (Member-at-Large) debut novel, What the Living Do, is a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, and has...
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Lise Mayne (pen name LG Pomerleau)

Lise Mayne's (Member At Large) poem “Riding on Boys with Cars, Dawn to Dusk,” will be published on December 1...
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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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Louise Rachlis

Louise Rachlis (National Capital Region Branch) has had her story “Technology 101” selected for inclusion in Chicken Soup for the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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John Passfield

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