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Erika Robuck

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of historical fiction including THE LAST TWELVE MILES and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 2024 she was named a Maryland Writer’s Association Notable Writer and won the Anne Arundel County Arts Council Literary Award. A photography enthusiast, she resides in Annapolis with her husband and three sons.

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Stephen White

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Stephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters.

Born on Long Island, White grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California and attended the University of California campuses at Irvine (where he lasted three weeks as a creative writing major) and Los Angeles before graduating from Berkeley in 1972. Along the way he learned to fly small planes, worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, cooked and waited tables at

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Sue Miller

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Sue Miller is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. She graduated from Radcliffe College.

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Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist.

Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario (located between Sarnia and Brights Grove) and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.

Lawson moved to England after graduating from McGill University with a psychology degree in 1968. She also married in Ontario, has two grown up sons and now lives in Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey. Her three novels to date, both published by Knopf Canada were set in Northern Ontario.

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Carol Shields

Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988.

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Jane Urquhart

She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels entitled, The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line.

The Whirlpool received the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Away was winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Underpainter won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

The Stone Carvers was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. A Map of Glass was a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Bo

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Andrée A. Michaud

Deux fois lauréate du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général (Le Ravissement, 2001, et Bondrée, 2014), récipiendaire du prix Arthur Ellis et du prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier pour Bondrée, ainsi que du prix Ringuet en 2006 pour Mirror Lake (adapté au cinéma en 2013), Andrée A. Michaud construit une œuvre éminemment personnelle qui ne cesse, depuis son premier roman, de susciter les éloges de la critique et des lecteurs avides de mystère. Son polar Lazy Bird, porté par des airs de jazz, est paru en 2010 au Seuil, en France, dans la collection Point noir.

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Donna Milner

Donna Jonas Milner, who has been referred to as the, 'Oh, so Canadian author,' was born in Victoria British Columbia and grew up in South Vancouver. As a young woman she relocated to a small town in the West Kootenays where she married and started a family. In 1972 she settled in the central interior of British Columbia and has resided there since. It wasn't until after she had raised four children and retired from a 25 year career in Real Estate that she pursued her secret passion for writing. Her creative non-fiction articles have been published in local periodicals, Reader's Digest, and the anthology Brothers, Borders and Babylon.

Her debut novel AFTER RIVER, was picked out of the slush pile at Gregory & Co Agency, and subsequently sold

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Erika Robuck

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of historical fiction including THE LAST TWELVE MILES and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 2024 she was named a Maryland Writer’s Association Notable Writer and won the Anne Arundel County Arts Council Literary Award. A photography enthusiast, she resides in Annapolis with her husband and three sons.

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Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Shilpi Somaya Gowda is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of four novels: Secret Daughter (2010), The Golden Son (2015), The Shape of Family (2020), and A Great Country (2024). Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages, been #1 international bestsellers in several countries and sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Shilpi was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She spent a college summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel and the transition from a business career to a becoming a writer: Secret Daughter was an IndieNext Great Read, a Target Book Club Pick, an Indigo Heather’s Pick, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick. It was a finalist for the South A

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Claudia Larochelle

C'est comme chroniqueuse sur Évasion et reporter au Petit Journal de TQS que Claudia Larochelle a fait ses premiers pas en télévision, au début des années 2000, avant d'être affectée aux pages culturelles du Journal de Montréal, puis du défunt site Rue Frontenac. En 2011, elle publiait le recueil de nouvelles Les bonnes filles plantent des fleurs au printemps et signait un des textes du collectif Amour & libertinage par les trentenaires d'aujourd'hui, qu'elle codirigeait. Elle anime depuis 2012 l'émission hebdomadaire LIRE diffusée sur ARTV et collabore régulièrement comme journaliste, recherchiste et chroniqueuse dans les médias écrits, à la radio et à la télévision. Elle est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en journalisme et d'une maîtrise en

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Christian Guay-Poliquin

Né à Saint-Armand en 1982, Christian Guay-Poliquin croit que les arts du récit sont intimement liés à la vie pratique et à une attention aux détails. Le fil des kilomètres (La Peuplade), son premier roman, a aussi été publié en France et en traduction anglaise.

Christian Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand in 1982. He is now developing a thesis project on the hunting narrative and also works in renovation. The pencil on his ear serves to mark his measures as much as it does to record his ideas. Le fil des kilometers (La Peuplade, 2013) is his first novel.

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Jean-Michel Fortier

Jean-Michel Fortier est né à Québec en 1987. Il a étudié la littérature à l'Université Laval et le cinéma à l'Université de Montréal. Ses deux premiers romans, Le chasseur inconnu (finaliste au Grand Prix littéraire Archambault 2015) et Les bains électriques , ont été traduits en anglais par Katherine Hastings ( The Unknown Huntsman et The Electric Baths ). Son troisième roman, La révolution d'Agnès , est paru à La Mèche en 2021 et en format poche chez Bibliothèque québécoise en 2024. Son quatrième roman, Tout me revient maintenant , a été finaliste au Prix littéraire des collégiens 2025.

Jean-Michel Fortier was born in Quebec City in 1987. He studied literature at Laval University and cinema at the University of Montréal.

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Jesse Thistle

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He teaches Métis Studies at York University in Toronto, where he lives. He won a Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016, and was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholar and a Vanier Scholar.

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Akim Gagnon

Akim Gagnon est l’auteur de trois romans aux éditions
La Mèche : Le cigare au bord des lèvres (2022), Granby au
passé simple (2023) et La dèche (2025).
Il signe également trois recueils de poésie : Jouer au
pool d’une main et écrire de l’autre (à compte d’auteur,
2021), Y va l’échapper l’bonhomme (à compte d’auteur,
2022) et Deux pour un (Hurlantes Éditrices, 2024).
Les thèmes qui lui sont chers gravitent autour de sa
propre existence, de l’amour, de la famille, de l’art, de
l’alcool et de l’humour, souvent marqué par une touche
scatologique.
Son dernier ouvrage, La dèche, clôt en beauté une
trilogie autofictionnelle. À partir de maintenant, Akim
s’engage dans une voie littéraire radicalement nouvelle :
il écrira uniquement de la bullshit pure à 100 %.

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Emily Carrington

Emily Carrington is a Canadian cartoonist who grew up on the Maritime Provinces, and now lives in British Columbia. A childhood love of comics returned (much to her own surprise) in her early fifties, and now she can't seem to stop drawing them! Her first book is Our Little Secret, and she now working on a second book. Emily has painted and sold watercolor paintings and was longlisted for a CBC poetry prize.

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Jean-Philippe Pleau

Jean-Philippe Pleau est sociologue. Né en 1977, il travaille à la radio de Radio-Canada depuis 2005. Il a coanimé l’émission C’est fou… avec Serge Bouchard de 2014 à 2021, et il anime depuis l’automne 2021 l’émission Réfléchir à voix haute sur ICI Première.

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Nicole Louie

Nicole Louie is a writer and translator based in Ireland. Her essays have appeared in Oh Reader, The Walrus and The Guardian, and her curated collections of books, movies and podcasts about women who are not mothers by choice, infertility, circumstance or ambivalence can be found on Instagram: @bynicolelouie. Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children is her first book.

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Fugen Neziroglu

Dr. Neziroglu is a board certified behavior and cognitive psychologist, specializing in Anxiety and Obsessive-
Compulsive related disorders, and is a pioneer in the research and treatment of Body Dysmporhic Disorder. She received her Ph.D. in clinical, school-community psychology from Hofstra University and completed her post-graduate work in behavior and cognitive therapy at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified in Cognitive and Behavior Therapy from the American Board of Behavioral Psychology (ABBP) and in Clinical Psychology fr5om the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). She is a Board Member and a Fellow of ABBP's Academy. She is also a member of many national and interna

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Juliette Fay

Juliette Fay is the bestselling author of eight novels, including THE HARVEY GIRLS, THE HALF OF IT, CATCH US WHEN WE FALL, CITY OF FLICKERING LIGHT and THE TUMBLING TURNER SISTERS, a USA Today bestseller and Costco Pennie’s Book Club Pick. Previous novels include THE SHORTEST WAY HOME, one of Library Journal’s Top 5 Best Books of 2012: Women’s Fiction; DEEP DOWN TRUE, short-listed for the 2011Women’s Fiction award by the American Library Association; and SHELTER ME, a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award “Must-Read Book” and an Indie Next pick.

Juliette is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and lives in Massachusetts with her family. Follow her on Facebook: Juliette Fay author, Instagram: Juliette_Fay, and BookBub: https://www.bo

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Donna Milner

Donna Jonas Milner, who has been referred to as the, 'Oh, so Canadian author,' was born in Victoria British Columbia and grew up in South Vancouver. As a young woman she relocated to a small town in the West Kootenays where she married and started a family. In 1972 she settled in the central interior of British Columbia and has resided there since. It wasn't until after she had raised four children and retired from a 25 year career in Real Estate that she pursued her secret passion for writing. Her creative non-fiction articles have been published in local periodicals, Reader's Digest, and the anthology Brothers, Borders and Babylon.

Her debut novel AFTER RIVER, was picked out of the slush pile at Gregory & Co Agency, and subsequently sold

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Richard Lumsden

Richard Lumsden has worked as an actor, writer and composer in television, film and theatre for 30 years. As an actor his films include Downhill, Sightseers, Sense & Sensibility and The Darkest Hour, as well as numerous television shows and theatre productions. THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is his first novel.

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Fiona Kidman

Fiona Kidman is a leading contemporary novelist, short story writer and poet. Much of her fiction is focused on how outsiders navigate their way in narrowly conformist society. She has published a large and exciting range of fiction and poetry, and has worked as a librarian, producer and critic. Kidman has won numerous awards, and she has been the recipient of fellowships, grants and other significant honours, as well as being a consistent advocate for New Zealand writers and literature. She is the President of Honour for the New Zealand Book Council, and has been awarded an OBE and a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature.

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Marti Leimbach

I write contemporary fiction for young adults and adults, though right now I'm concentrating on my YA thriller series, kicking off with Dragonfly Girl published by Harper Collins Feb '21.

I'm on Goodreads, but if you have questions you can also find me on Twitter https://twitter.com/MartiLeimbach
or on Instagram: marti.leimbach

In addition to all things literary, I'm interested in neurodiversity, young inventors, and science.

I teach on the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford as a fiction tutor. My students are amazing!

When I'm not writing or teaching or reading, I'm looking after a small flock of Ryleand sheep, walking may Shetland sheepdog or hanging out with the fancy rats I breed as part of the National Fancy R

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