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Brockville
Writer and comedian Carolyn Bennett cut her teeth performing at Yuk Yuks and hasn't stopped bleeding since. Selected TV credits include This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC COMICS, Chilly Beach and The NHL Awards. Produced radio plays include Mixed Media, and Pure Convenience. Produced…
Brockville
Carolyn
Bennett
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Eugene Benson is a Canadian citizen born in Northern Ireland in 1928. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Guelph. He married Renate Niklaus in 1968 and…
Eugene
Benson
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Winnipeg
Steven Benstead has published two novels,The Wooing of a Lady (1978) and Driving Blind (1998). His short fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, The Journey Prize: Stories 25, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, and The Antigonish Review. He also wrote the text…
Winnipeg
Steven
Benstead
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Foothills
Dorothy Bentley is published in articles, cartoons, columns, interviews, short stories, poetry, and novels. Her picture book, Summer North Coming, (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) was released in 2019, and her YA novel, Escape from the Wildfire, (Lorimer Kids & Teens) was…
Foothills
Dorothy
Bentley
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Nanoose Bay
B.R. Bentley has lived in Bermuda, Canada and South Africa while engaged in a global business career. An enthusiastic sailor, scuba diver and occasional art collector, he draws on the experiences from his travels, work, and recreational pursuits to facilitate his writing. A…
Nanoose Bay
B.R.
Bentley
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P.O.Box 128, Charlottetown, NL, A0C 1L0
Sharon Berg released two books in September 2019 and two more in September 2020. She writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and articles.Sharon released her debut collection of short fiction called 'Naming the Shadows' (Porcupines Quill. 2019). Next, was a cross-genre…
P.O.Box 128, Charlottetown, NL, A0C 1L0
Sharon
Berg
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Nepean
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Tony Berryman dreams in stories. Occasionally he’s fast enough to write a few of them down.
A Nova Scotia expat, he moved to the mountains as a young man and then further, to the West Coast. He has worked as a taxi driver, museum guide, apple picker, snowplow driver and desk…
Tony
Berryman
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Smithfield
Johanna Bertin is a freelance writer who makes her home in Smithfield, New Brunswick. She is the author of two non-fiction books focusing on unusual events in Canadian history, a narrative history of Sable Island, a children’s biography of Sir Charles Tupper, a story in an …
Smithfield
Johanna
Bertin
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Toronto
Travelling and writing have always been Dennison Berwick's passions. "There's too much of the world to see, and too many fascinating people to meet, to stay in one place for too long," says the sailor, storyteller and nomad. Born in Yorkshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in…
Toronto
Dennison
Berwick
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Lac du Bonnet
Donna Besel loves writing of all kinds and leads workshops for writers of all ages. In 2016, her collection of short stories, "Lessons from a Nude Man," captured fourth place spot on McNally Robinson Bookstore’s annual bestsellers list, and nominations for Margaret Laurence…
Lac du Bonnet
Donna
Besel
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Owen Sound
Lauren Best lives where the Pottawatomi River meets Georgian Bay, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (now known as Owen Sound, Ontario). She is an interdisciplinary creative with a multifaceted professional practice as a performance/intermedia poet, musician/composer…
Owen Sound
Lauren
Best
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Mississauga
Tanaz Bhathena writes books for young adults. She is the author of Rising like a Storm, the sequel to the 2021 White Pine Award winning novel, Hunted by the Sky, which was also named a Best Book of the Year by the CBC and USBBY. Her novel, The Beauty of the Moment, won the…
Mississauga
Tanaz
Bhathena
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Sherwood Park
Katie Bickell is an Albertan short story writer and novelist who writes with a focus on the representation of place. Katie's debut novel, Always Brave, Sometimes Kind (Brindle & Glass, 2020) won the 2021 Indie Author Project for Alberta, the 2020 Alberta Literary Award's…
Sherwood Park
Katie
Bickell
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Calgary
Bertrand Bickersteth is an educator who also writes poetry and plays. In 2021, CBC named him a writer to watch. His collection of poetry, The Response of Weeds, won both the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G.…
Calgary
Bertrand
Bickersteth
Haines Junction
Ellen Bielawski is a lifelong northerner. She's published books set in the Northwest Territories and in Alaska, including Rogue Diamonds which was awarded Best of the Year – Resources by Canadian Geographic, as well as numerous works in The Globe and Mail, Arctic and Orion…
Haines Junction
Ellen
Bielawski
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Tina Biello, born in a small logging town in BC, to immigrant parents from Southern Italy. She is an actor, poet and playwright. She has three full length collections of poetry published with a fourth coming out in 2024 with Caitlin Press. Her first collection was part of an…
Tina
Biello
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Milford
Andrew Binks has worked, written, acted and taught across the globe. Andrew holds a BA in Drama from Queen's University, a diploma from LAMDA and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. His second novel, STRIP, was published by Nightwood Editions in…
Milford
Andrew
Binks
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Burnaby
Sadhu Binning D. Litt.
Sadhu, a bilingual author, has lived in the Vancouver area since migrating to Canada in 1967. He has published more than nineteen books of poetry, fiction, plays, translations and research. His works have been included in more than fifty anthologies both…
Burnaby
Sadhu
Binning
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Toronto
Ann has an M.A. (1974) from the University of Toronto. For many years she was Head of English in Toronto secondary schools. In 1996 she was named Teacher of the Year. She has given lectures on the teaching of writing at national and international conferences and served for many…
Toronto
Ann
Birch
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Vancouver
Kate Bird is the author of the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from A Decade That Changed the City, which was nominated for the 2016 British Columbia Historical Writing Award, City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes and Magic…
Vancouver
Kate
Bird
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