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Ashleigh A. Allen
Jordan Abel
Mark Abley
Carolyn Abraham
Gil Adamson
Caroline Adderson
Ajay Agrawal
Will Aitken
Donald Harman Akenson
David Akin
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Patsy Aldana
André Alexis
Edna Alford
Taiaiake Alfred
Irfan Ali
Madhur Anand
Debra Anderson
Vincent Anioke
Jamaluddin Aram
Kevin Armstrong
David Arnason
Phyllis Aronoff
Wayne Arthurson
Katherine Ashenburg
Margaret Atwood
Odette Auger
Nahlah Ayed
Todd Babiak
Ken Babstock
Frances Backhouse
Anita Rau Badami
Bilal Baig
Linda Bailey
Martha Baillie
Deirdre Baker
Carleigh Baker
Jacqueline Baker
Sharon Bala
Manahil Bandukwala
Baharan Baniahmadi
Adèle Barclay
Joan Barfoot
Joelle Barron
James Bartleman
John Barton
Jalal Barzanji
Jen Batler
Dan Bazuin
Tara Beagan
Brent Beardsley
Steven Beattie
Derek Beaulieu
Jessica Bebenek
Greg Bechtel
Eliott Behar
Peter Behrens
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Katia Belkhodja
Vanessa Bell
Cicely Belle Blain
Gwen Benaway
David Bergen
S. Bear Bergman
Michelle Berry
Kris Bertin
Pierre Berton
Gillian Best
David Bezmozgis
Shashi Bhat
Sandra Birdsell
Heather Birrell
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Neil Bissoondath
Marie-Claire Blais
Clark Blaise
Raymond B. Blake
Mike Blanchfield
Christie Blatchford
Ali Blythe
Selina Boan
Dennis Bock
Fred Bodsworth
Kim Bolan
Stephanie Bolster
Wendy Bone
Kenneth Bonert
Shane Book
Laurel Boone
Emily Bossé
Robert Bothwell
Eddy Boudel Tan
Mark Bourrie
Marilyn Bowering
Brendan Bowles
Tim Bowling
Joseph Boyden
Ingeborg Boyens
Craig Boyko
Kate Braid
Daphne Bramham
Dionne Brand
Brian Brett
Dan Breznitz
Krista Bridge
Robert Bringhurst
Ed Broadbent
Hugh Brody
Martha Brooks
Nicole Brossard
Sarah Christina Brown
Ian Brown
Jocelyn Brown
Greg Brown
Geoffrey Brown
Julie Bruck
Carol Bruneau
Stephen Brunt
Alice Burdick
Bonnie Burnard
Sharon Butala
Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Alison Calder
Claire Caldwell
June Callwood
Claire Cameron
Elspeth Cameron
Stevie Cameron
Anna Camilleri
Tenille K. Campbell
Deborah Campbell
Xaiver Michael Campbell
Maria Campbell
Sabine Campbell
Natalee Caple
Warren Cariou
Pat Carney
Roch Carrier
Kate Cayley
Marjorie Celona
Éric Chacour
J. Edward Chamberlin
Weyman Chan
Marty Chan
Adam Chapnick
David Chariandy
Sam Cheuk
Joanna Chiu
Ann Y. K. Choi
Gabriel Cholette
Corinna Chong
Denise Chong
Kevin Chong
Lesley Choyce
Michael Christie
Jillian Christmas
Johnnie Christmas
Carolyn Chung
Kerry Clare
Andrew Clark
Joan Clark
Eliza Clark
Laura Clarke
Austin Clarke
Stephen Clarkson
Marie Clements
Lynn Coady
Catherine Cobham
Devon Code
Andrew Cohen
Matt Cohen
Desmond Cole
Trevor Cole
Stephen Collis
Wayde Compton
Christy Ann Conlin
Karen Connelly
Kai Conradi
Tim Cook
Christina Cooke
Sheila Copps
Licia Corbella
Amanda Cordner
Trevor Corkum
Colby Cosh
Douglas Coupland
Gil Courtemanche
Dani Couture
Daniel Allen Cox
Sarah Cox
Ivan Coyote
Aimée Craft
Gregor Craigie
Eva Crocker
John Crosbie
Lorna Crozier
Michael Crummey
Nancy Jo Cullen
Alan Cumyn
Francine Cunningham
Andrea Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis
Romeo Dallaire
Mary Dalton
Simone Dalton
Joseph Dandurand
Annahid Dashtgard
Peter Dauvergne
Craig Davidson
Lauren B. Davis
Wade Davis
Amber Dawn
Nicholas Dawson
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Anthony De Sa
Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle
Ronald J. Deibert
Dina Del Bucchia
Susan Delacourt
Geoff Dembicki
Lewis DeSoto
William Deverell
Elaine Dewar
Patrick deWitt
Marcello Di Cintio
David di Giovanni
Mary di Michele
Adam Dickinson
Cherie Dimaline
Jennifer Ditchburn
Hadani Ditmars
Nicole Dixon
Tamas Dobozy
Farzana Doctor
Jeramy Dodds
Jane Doe
Don Domanski
Greg Donaghy
Jeffery Donaldson
Allan Donaldson
Emma Donoghue
Robyn Doolittle
Deirdre Dore
EC Dorgan
Clive Doucet
Dan Dowhal
Antonio Michael Downing
Dawn Rae Downton
Stan Dragland
nina jane drystek
Klara du Plessis
Marianne Dubuc
Jacalyn Duffin
John Duffy
Christopher Dummitt
Marilyn Dumont
Norma Dunning
Phillip Dwight Morgan
Hadley Dyer
Gwynne Dyer
Esi Edugyan
Jannie Edwards
Dale Eisler
Modris Eksteins
francesca ekwuyasi
Omar El Akkad
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Rima Elkouri
Alicia Elliott
Sarah Ellis
Deborah Ellis
Marina Endicott
Howard Engel
John English
Tyler Engström
Shams Erfan
Patrick James Errington
Leah Jane Esau
Gwyneth Evans
Charelle Evelyn
Cary Fagan
Tim Falconer
A.Z. Farah
Moira Farr
Brian Fawcett
Will Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson
Raoul Fernandes
Paola Ferrante
Connie Fife
Timothy Findley
Charlie Fiset
Erin Frances Fisher
Rebecca Fisseha
James FitzGerald
Anne Fleming
Nora Flynn
Lisa Foad
Cheryl Foggo
Charles Foran
Andrew Forbes
Krista Foss
William Fox
Brian Francis
Sylvia Fraser
Victoria Freeman
Omer Friedlander
Matti Friedman
Kathy Friedman
Kim Fu
Rivka Galchen
Mavis Gallant
Steven Galloway
George Galt
Joshua Gans
Adam Garnet Jones
Zsuzsi Gartner
Elyse Gasco
Bill Gaston
C.E. Gatchalian
Greg Gatenby
Marie-Louise Gay
Camilla Gibb
Graeme Gibson
Rachel Giese
Mylene Gilbert-Dumas
Charlotte Gill
Don Gillmor
Melissa J. Gismondi
Terri E. Givens
Terri E. Givens
Terry Glavin
Susan Glickman
Douglas Glover
Carol Goar
Rebecca Godfrey
Anjula Gogia
Eddie Goldenberg
Avi Goldfarb
Jess Goldman
Michelle Good
Seyward Goodhand
Rob Goodman
Allan Gotlieb
Hiromi Goto
Barry Gough
Terry Gould
Katherine Govier
Barbara Gowdy
Sue Goyette
Linda Goyette
Cicely Grace
Wayne Grady
Ron Graham
Monica Graham
James Grainger
J. L. Granatstein
Shauntay Grant
Jessica Grant
Shelagh D. Grant
Elise Gravel
Allison Graves
Charlotte Gray
Monique Gray Smith
Hannah Green
Elizabeth Greene
Taras Grescoe
Daniel Griffin
Rudyard Griffiths
Terry Griggs
Gord Grisenthwaite
Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang
Brett Josef Grubisic
Genni Gunn
Richard Gwyn
Sandra Gwyn
Samra Habib
Rawi Hage
Ken Haigh
Louise Halfe
Phil Hall
Phil Halton
Sylvia D. Hamilton
Eaton Hamilton
Don Hannah
Catherine Hanrahan
Susan Harada
Kevin Hardcastle
Adrian Harewood
Liz Harmer
Michael Harris
Gail Harris
Anne Hart
Kenneth Harvey
Elisabeth Harvor
Khalida Hassan
Luke Hathaway
Alix Hawley
Elizabeth Hay
Emma Healey
Joseph Heath
Henry Heavyshield
Chantal Hébert
Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre
Steven Heighton
Michael Helm
David Helwig
Lee Henderson
Catherine Hernandez
Nicholas Herring
Trevor Herriot
Benjamin Hertwig
Tomson Highway
Lawrence Hill
Miranda Hill
Ernest Hillen
Norman Hillmer
Jack Hodgins
Susan Holbrook
Teya Hollier
Greg Hollingshead
Cynthia Holz
Carl Honoré
Andrew Hood
Leah Horlick
Lorax B. Horne
Jeff Horvath
Polly Horvath
Robert Hough
Liz Howard
David Huebert
Helen Humphreys
Dallas Hunt
Aislinn Hunter
Douglas Hunter
Glen Huser
Nancy Huston
Maureen Hynes
Elio Iannacci
John Ibbitson
Djamila Ibrahim
Michael Ignatieff
George Ilsley
Anosh Irani
Ann Ireland
Frances Itani
Marni Jackson
Jane Jacobs
Hazel Jane Plante
Mark Jarman
Nayani Jensen
Min Jia
Paulette Jiles
Dean Jobb
Ron Jobe
Marthe Jocelyn
Jessica Johns
Harold R. Johnson
William Johnson
Michael Johnson
Wayne Johnston
Julie Johnston
Zilla Jones
Zak Jones
El Jones
Amy Jones
Eve Joseph
shalan joudry
Chase Joynt
Nyanza Julian
Michael Kaan
Sarah Kabamba
Vivette J. Kady
Kris Kaila
Joseph Kakwinokanasum
Guy Gavriel Kay
Anna Ling Kaye
Greg Kearney
Lulu Keating
Tyler Keevil
Kaie Kellough
Elin Kelsey
Conor Kerr
Reid Kerr Keller
Tasha Kheiriddin
Stephen Kimber
Sheung - King
Thomas King
Ross King
Barbara Kingscote
Mark Kingwell
Jónína Kirton
Ross Klatte
Naomi Klein
Chelene Knight
Amy Knight
Helen Knott
Tamai Kobayashi
Debra Komar
Arno Kopecky
Myrna Kostash
Arthur Kroeger
Lesley Krueger
Devin Krukoff
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Janice Kulyk Keefer
Michael Kusugak
Lynne Kutsukake
Sonnet L’Abbé
Kama La Mackerel
Alexis Lachaîne
Ben Ladouceur
Eimear Laffan
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Angélique Lalonde
Fiona Lam
Taylor Lambert
Kevin Lambert
Shaena Lambert
Patrick Lane
Colette Langlois
Lori Lansens
Sonja Larsen
Jeff Latosik
Doretta Lau
Iain Lawrence
Grant Lawrence
Mary Lawson
Sarah Leavitt
Amanda Leduc
Erica Violet Lee
Kyo Lee
Dennis Lee
Jessica J Lee
Nancy Lee
JJ Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee
Alma Lee
Sylvia Legris
Catherine Leroux
Megan Leslie
Alex Leslie
Carrianne Leung
Norman Levine
Stephen Lewis
Joanna Lilley
Thea Lim
Amy Lin
Tracey Lindberg
Jean Little
Dorothy Livesey
Billie Livingston
Lynette Loeppky
Ben Lof
Daysha Loppie
John Lorinc
Canisia Lubrin
Derek Lundy
Janet Lunn
Jeanette Lynes
Janice Lynn Mather
Annabel Lyon
Greg MacArthur
Flora MacDonald
Jake MacDonald
Sherry MacDonald
L. Ian MacDonald
Judy MacDonald
Robert Macfarlane
David Macfarlane
J.B. MacKinnon
Kyo Maclear
Hugh MacLennan
Alexander MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod
Margaret MacMillan
Samantha Jade Macpherson
Nicole Mae
Anand Mahadevan
Rabindranath Maharaj
Stephen Maher
Terese Marie Mailhot
Antonine Maillet
Antonia Maioni
Kevin Major
Alice Major
Pasha Malla
Andrea Mandel-Campbell
David Manicom
Julie Mannell
Peter Mansbridge
Jonathan Manthorpe
Ryan Manucha
Jean Marc Ah-Sen
Dave Margoshes
Alex Marland
Jean Marmoreo
Garth Martens
Sandra Martin
Lawrence Martin
Domenica Martinello
Clem Martini
Sid Marty
Derek Mascarenhas
James Maskalyk
Hana Mason
Terese Mason Pierre
Stacey Matson
Larry Matthews
Debra Mattson
Laura Matwichuk
Robyn Maynard
Suzette Mayr
John Bentley Mays
Monia Mazigh
Colin McAdam
Jacob McArthur Mooney
Elaine McClusky
J.R. McConvey
Derek McCormack
Judith McCormack
Jessica McDiarmid
Marci McDonald
Emily McGiffin
Keriann McGoogan
Tara McGowan-Ross
Carmelita McGrath
Don McKay
Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
Allegra McKenzie
Beverley McLachlin
Darrel J. McLeod
James McLeod
Susan McMaster
Lori McNulty
Linda McQuaig
Tessa McWatt
Mark Medley
Adele Megann
John Metcalf
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Bruce Meyer
Sarah Mian
Sean Michaels
John Miller
K.D. Miller
Dana Mills
Lorie Miseck
Rohinton Mistry
Michael Mitchell
W.O. Mitchell
Sara Mojtehedzadeh
Leah Mol
Charles Montgomery
Lisa Moore
Brian Moore
Jeffrey Moore
Christopher Moore
Shani Mootoo
Pamela Mordecai
Jas M. Morgan
Kim Moritsugu
A.F. Moritz
Megan Elizabeth Morrison
Omar Mouallem
Farley Mowat
Alice Munro
Colleen Murphy
George Murray
Susan Musgrave
Téa Mutonji
Alessandra Naccarato
Noor Naga
Nik Nanos
Nik Nanos
Darlene Naponse
Zehra Naqvi
Mahtab Narsimhan
Dimitri Nasrallah
Saleema Nawaz
Rahela Nayebzadah
Jen Neale
David A Neel
Max & Monique Nemni
Peter C. Newman
Rhiannon Ng
Hoa Nguyen
Billeh Nickerson
Shanice Nicole
Hal Niedzviecki
Susin Nielsen
Andrew Nikiforuk
Donna Bailey Nurse
Samantha Nutt
Grace O’Connell
Jane O'Hara
Josh O’Kane
Sara O’Leary
Kady O'Malley
Heather O’Neill
Carol Off
Alix Ohlin
Peter Oliva
Anthony Oliveira
Jackie Olson
Kenneth Oppel
James Orbinski
Fen Osler Hampson
Deborah Ostrovsky
Kathy Page
P.K. Page
Lue Palmer
Anna Mehler Paperny
Faith Paré
Erna Paris
Fawn Parker
Marnie Parsons
Emily Paskevics
Kevin Patterson
Ian Pearson
Kit Pearson
Lishai Peel
Soraya Peerbaye
Emily Pegg
Brigitte Pellerin
Julie Pellissier-Lush
Colin N Perkel
Susan Perren
Benjamin Perrin
Sandra Perron
Charlie Petch
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Amanda Peters
Zoey Leigh Peterson
Michael Petrou
Elizabeth Philips
Jane Philpott
André Picard
Alison Pick
Ayaz Pirani
Casey Plett
Shelagh Plunkett
Emily Pohl-Weary
Jacques Poitras
Daniel Poliquin
Christopher Pollon
Stephen Poloz
Sandy Pool
Michelle Porter
Anna Porter
Kerry Lee Powell
Steven Price
Robert Priest
Dora Prieto
Heather Pringle
Michael Prior
Alex Pugsley
Al Purdy
Andrew Pyper
Dilan Qadir
Paul Quarrington
Matt Rader
Bob Rae
Hannah Rahimi
Lisa Raitt
Althia Raj
Danny Ramadan
Leah Ranada
Jeanne Randolph
Anuradha Rao
Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud
Michael Redhill
Barbara Reid
Gayla Reid
Zalika Reid-Benta
Maria Reva
Judi Rever
Nino Ricci
Waubgeshig Rice
David Adams Richards
Jael Richardson
Noah Richler
Mordecai Richler
Emily Riddle
Tanis Rideout
Susan Riley
Erika Ritter
Kent Roach
Alasdair Roberts
Siobhan Roberts
Eliza Robertson
David A. Robertson
Ray Robertson
Eden Robinson
January Rogers
Barbara Romanik
Leon Rooke
Rachel Rose
Rebecca Rosenblum
Laisha Rosnau
Ailsa Ross
Stuart Ross
Jeffrey Round
Ted Rowe
Talya Rubin
Lindsay Ruck
Armand Garnet Ruffo
Sharanpal Ruprai
Harley Rustad
Elizabeth Ruth
Naben Ruthnum
Maria Saba
Itah Sadu
Jamal Saeed
Kerri Sakamoto
Trish Salah
Rebecca Salazar
Judith Saltman
Devyani Saltzman
David R. Samson
Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)
Taki Sarantakis
John Ralston Saul
Doug Saunders
Candace Savage
Donald J. Savoie
Ellie Sawatzky
John T Saywell
Jacob Scheier
Johanna Schneller
Diane Schoemperlen
Anakana Schofield
Andreas Schroeder
Joanne Schwartz
Roslyn Schwartz
Heather Scoffield
Gregory Scofield
Howard Scott
Jordan Scott
Jasmine Sealy
Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓
Anik See
Paul Seesequasis
Sarah Selecky
Olive Senior
Hana Shafi
Christina Sharpe
Zoe Imani Sharpe
Matt Shaw
Sarah Sheard
Julian Sher
Julian Sher and William Marsden
Nilofar Shidmehr
Carol Shields
Adam Shoalts
Suzannah Showler
Vivek Shraya
Miriam Shuchman
Eric Siblin
Melanie Siebert
Maggie Siggins
Mireille Silcoff
Antanas Sileika
Merilyn Simonds
Paula Simons
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
jaye simpson
Jeffrey Simpson
Anne Simpson
Sue Sinclair
Shauna Singh Baldwin
Johanna Skibsrud
Cooper Skjeie
Josef Skvorecky
Graham Slaughter
Ruby Slipperjack
Carolyn Smart
Vaclav Smil
Dianah Smith
Michael V. Smith
Steven Ross Smith
Neil Smith
Russell Smith
Graeme Smith
David Smith
Kilby Smith-McGregor
Andrew Stobo Sniderman
Aubrianna Snow
Carrie Snyder
Karen Solie
Margaret Somerville
Linda Spalding
Rosemary Speirs
Rae Spoon
Jakub Stachurski
John Stackhouse
Edna Staebler
Kim Stanton
Graham Steele
Andrew Steinmetz
Fred Stenson
Angela Sterritt
Valerie Stetson
Geoffrey Stevens
Liz Stewart
Wendi Stewart
John Elizabeth Stintzi
Daniel Stoffman
Pablo Strauss
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Sarah Suk
Rosemary Sullivan
Smokii Sumac
Merna Summers
Moez Surani
Mary Swan
Susan Swan
Margaret Sweatman
Miguel Syjuco
Gillian Sze
Jane Taber
Claire Tacon
Proma Tagore
E.S. Taillon
Tanya Talaga
Mariko Tamaki
Darcy Tamayose
Astra Taylor
Timothy Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor
Saeed Teebi
Wayne Tefs
Ruth Teichroeb
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Yasuko Thanh
Manjushree Thapa
John and Mary Theberge
Madeleine Thien
Kai Cheng Thom
Joan Thomas
Kai Thomas
Rebecca Thomas
Audrey Thomas
Debra Thompson
Cheryl Thompson
Jan Thornhill
Sara Tilley
Paula Todd
Jack Todd
Dragan Todorovic
Miriam Toews
Matthew Trafford
Huyền Trân
Rhea Tregebov
Peter Trent
Laura Trethewey
Karianne Trudeau Beaunoyer
Ayelet Tsabari
Karen Tulchinsky
Élise Turcotte
Chris Turner
Robert Turner
Anne-Marie Turza
Iryn Tushabe
Arielle Twist
Priscila Uppal
Emily Urquhart
Jane Urquhart
John Vaillant
Richard Van Camp
Aritha van Herk
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Anuja Varghese
M.G. Vassanji
Raksha Vasudevan
R.M. Vaughan
Katherena Vermette
Margaret Visser
Dan Vyleta
Eleanor Wachtel
Chris Waddell
Marie Wadden
Richard Wagamese
Fred Wah
Bill Waiser
Hal Wake
Rinaldo Walcott
Joshua Wales
Pamela Wallin
David Walmsley
Meeka Walsh
Isabella Wang
Jack Wang
Russell Wangersky
Sanna Wani
Dianne Warren
Terry Watada
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Shannon Webb-Campbell
Barry Webster
Matthew James Weigel
Merrily Weisbord
Karin Wells
Paul Wells
Jennifer Welsh
Jesse Wente
Dan Werb
Darren Wershler
Martin West
Rex Weyler
Jack Whalen
Thomas Wharton
Margo Wheaton
Joshua Whitehead
Bill Whitehead
Eileen Whitfield
Zoe Whittall
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson
Robert Wiersema
Charles Wilkins
Ian Williams
Jenny Heijun Wills
Jody Wilson-Raybould
jia qing wilson-yang
Alexa Winik
Donald Winkler
Hugh F. Winsor
Kathleen Winter
Michael Winter
Ken Wiwa
Lindsay Wong
Rita Wong
Wendy H. Wong
Jan Wong
Chris Wood
Ronald Wright
Eric Wright
Christine Wu
Max Wyman
Kathleen Wynne
Tim Wynne-Jones
Shō Yamagushiku
Chuqiao Yang
Joel Yanofsky
Paul Yee
Sennah Yee
Winnie Yeung
Alissa York
Scott Young
