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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

Nancy Chislett

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

Valerie Behiery

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

Neha Sharma

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

Christopher Gorman

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

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...

Louise Rachlis

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

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...

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...

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...

Patrick Connors

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

Susan Wadds

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

Robert W. Mackay

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

Doley Henderson

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

James Arnett

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

R. J. Hore

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

Doug Jordan

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

Nan Williamson

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

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...

Martin Neil Campbell

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

Joyce Goodwin

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

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...

Lise Mayne

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

Tara K. Torme

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

Michael Gates

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

Purabi Sinha Das

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

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....

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,...

Deborah Cannon

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

Scott Overton

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

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...

Hanna Park

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

John Passfield

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

Barbara Black

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

Arwinder Kaur

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

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

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

Dorothee Komangapik

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

Marilyn Boyle Taylor

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

Pamela Dillon

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

Gordon K. Jones

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

Susan Mockler

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

D.F. Whibley

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

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...

Liz Rachel Walker

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

Liisa Kovala

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

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...

David Finnie

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

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...

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...

Jacquie Dankner

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

Su Chang

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

Erin MacNair

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

C. Fitton

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

Melanie Marttila

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

Sharon Frayne

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

Karen Gansel

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

May Q. Wong

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

Samar Samir Mezghanni

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

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...

Genni Gunn

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

Christine Bergsma

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

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...

Karan Wadhwani

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

Gail Dahl

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

Kathleen Jones

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

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...

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/.

Norma Nicholson

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

Jennifer Harris

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

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...

Suzanne Craig-Whytock

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

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...

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...

K. R. Wilson

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

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.

Maureen Young

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

Richard Pyves

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

Maria Saba

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

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.

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...

Anne Kathleen McLaughlin

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

Margaret Lynch

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

Elaine Cougler

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

Julie Wise

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

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/.

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...

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Upcoming Events

MAY 27, JUNE 3, 10, 17, 24

National Write-In:
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JUNE 11, 2025

CAA NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION CHAPTER: Confessions of a Crime Novel Novice with Don Butler
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JUNE 13, 2025

CAA TORONTO CHAPTER: Toronto Chapter’s Pub Night Social
7:00 pm ET
Sin & Redemption, 136 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON
Free for CAA members; $20.00 for non-members.
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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.