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Ingeborg Boyens has worked as a journalist for many years, writing for newspapers, magazines and television in Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. Her most recent position took her to CBC-TV's national current affairs program Country Canada in Winnipeg. Her work there as a…
Ingeborg
Boyens
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Bracebridge and Toronto
J. Patrick Boyer, Q.C. is a veteran of the House of Commons, constitutional lawyer, political science professor, broadcast and print journalist, and author of more than twenty books on politics, ethics, law, history, governance, and biographies. Boyer joined The Writers’ Union…
Bracebridge and Toronto
J. Patrick
Boyer
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Ottawa
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Toronto
A Toronto native, Mel Bradshaw (crimenovel.ca) holds degrees in philosophy from Oxford and U of T, where he was film editor of The Varsity. He has taught English in Canada and Southeast Asia and has published crime novels set in three different eras. Victim Impact features biker…
Toronto
Mel
Bradshaw
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Victoria, BC
Kate Braid was born in Alberta, raised in Montreal, went to school in New Brunswick and now lives in British Columbia. For fifteen years she worked in construction as a labourer, apprentice, journey carpenter, contractor and trades instructor. She then taught creative writing (…
Victoria, BC
Kathleen
Braid
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Stratford
Marianne Brandis was born in the Netherlands in 1938, came to Canada at age eight, and lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario. She began writing in her teens, and continued while working as a copywriter at private radio stations and the CBC, and…
Stratford
Marianne
Brandis
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Ottawa
Laura Brandon was born in London, England in 1951 of Canadian parents. After graduating from the University of Bristol in 1973 in art history and history, she moved with her husband to Canada in 1976. They have lived in Toronto, Charlottetown, and Ottawa, which is now their home…
Ottawa
Laura
Brandon
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Saskatoon
Bev Brenna is the author of 16 books, 14 of them for young people, including The White Bicycle—winner of a Printz Honor and shortlisted for a 2013 Governor General's Award; Wild Orchid, listed on CBC's Young Adult Books That Make You Proud to Be Canadian; Sapphire the Great and…
Saskatoon
Beverley
Brenna
Johnville
Ann Brennan holds a B. A., an MA., and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New Brunswick. She is one of the founders of the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick, recently retired, Honorary President. Brennan is a member of the Writers Union of Canada and the…
Johnville
Ann
Brennan
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Kitchener
Nic Brewer is a queer writer and editor from Toronto. She writes fiction, mostly; her first novel, Suture, was published with Book*Hug in Fall 2021. She is the co-founder of Frond, an online literary journal for prose by LGBTQI2SA writers, and formerly co-managed the micropress…
Kitchener
Nicole
Brewer
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Toronto
Hugh Brewster has written 15 books for young readers and adults beginning with Anastasia’s Album (1996) which won both the Silver Birch and Red Cedar Awards. On Juno Beach won the Information Book Award in 2005 and At Vimy Ridge was a Norma Fleck Award winner in 2008. Other…
Toronto
Hugh
Brewster
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Colin Brezicki
A graduate of Western and Oxford University, I spent my career teaching and directing in England and Canada.
I turned to writing when I retired in 2012. I've published two novels, “A Case for Dr. Palindrome”, and “All That Remains”(recently a finalist in the…
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Colin
Brezicki
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Winnipeg
Rae St. Clair Bridgman is an award-winning Winnipeg author and illustrator of children’s books, including several picture books and the mythical MiddleGate Books. She has a knack for finding the magical and extraordinary in the ordinary, in between the cracks of reality. Rae is…
Winnipeg
Rae
Bridgman
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Toronto
Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. In her fiction, she is drawn to writing about whimsy, fleeting moments, and the small secrets of interior lives. Her creative nonfiction bends genres, makes quirky connections and highlights social justice themes—quietly. “…
Toronto
Linda
Briskin
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Whitehorse (traditional territories of Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwach'an Council)
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Montreal
Ami Sands Brodoff is the award-winning author of three novels and two story collections. The Sleep of Apples, her new novel-in-stories, centres on nine closely linked characters confronting crises related to mental illness, mortality--sooner rather than later--and gender…
Montreal
Ami
Brodoff
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