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Ashleigh A. Allen

Carolyn Abraham

Caroline Adderson

Donald Harman Akenson

Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Kamal Al-Solaylee

Taiaiake Alfred

Debra Anderson

Vincent Anioke
Jamaluddin Aram

Kevin Armstrong

David Arnason
Phyllis Aronoff

Wayne Arthurson

Katherine Ashenburg

Margaret Atwood

Frances Backhouse

Anita Rau Badami

Martha Baillie

Deirdre Baker

Carleigh Baker

Jacqueline Baker
Manahil Bandukwala

Baharan Baniahmadi

Adèle Barclay

Joelle Barron

James Bartleman

Jalal Barzanji

Brent Beardsley

Steven Beattie
Derek Beaulieu

Jessica Bebenek

Peter Behrens

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Katia Belkhodja

Cicely Belle Blain

S. Bear Bergman

Michelle Berry

Pierre Berton

David Bezmozgis

Sandra Birdsell

Heather Birrell

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Neil Bissoondath

Marie-Claire Blais

Raymond B. Blake

Mike Blanchfield

Christie Blatchford

Fred Bodsworth

Stephanie Bolster

Kenneth Bonert

Robert Bothwell

Eddy Boudel Tan

Marilyn Bowering

Brendan Bowles

Joseph Boyden

Ingeborg Boyens

Daphne Bramham

Krista Bridge

Robert Bringhurst

Martha Brooks

Nicole Brossard

Sarah Christina Brown

Jocelyn Brown

Geoffrey Brown

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

Marjorie Celona

J. Edward Chamberlin

Adam Chapnick

David Chariandy

Ann Y. K. Choi

Gabriel Cholette

Corinna Chong

Lesley Choyce

Michael Christie

Jillian Christmas

Johnnie Christmas

Carolyn Chung

Austin Clarke

Stephen Clarkson

Marie Clements

Catherine Cobham

Stephen Collis

Wayde Compton

Christy Ann Conlin

Karen Connelly

Christina Cooke

Licia Corbella

Amanda Cordner
Trevor Corkum

Douglas Coupland

Gil Courtemanche

Daniel Allen Cox

Gregor Craigie

Lorna Crozier

Michael Crummey

Nancy Jo Cullen

Francine Cunningham

Andrea Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

Romeo Dallaire

Simone Dalton

Joseph Dandurand

Annahid Dashtgard

Peter Dauvergne

Craig Davidson

Lauren B. Davis

Nicholas Dawson

Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Anthony De Sa

Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

Ronald J. Deibert
Dina Del Bucchia

Susan Delacourt

Geoff Dembicki

William Deverell

Patrick deWitt

Marcello Di Cintio

David di Giovanni

Mary di Michele

Adam Dickinson

Cherie Dimaline

Jennifer Ditchburn

Hadani Ditmars

Farzana Doctor

Jeffery Donaldson

Allan Donaldson

Emma Donoghue

Robyn Doolittle

Antonio Michael Downing

Dawn Rae Downton

Stan Dragland

nina jane drystek

Klara du Plessis

Marianne Dubuc

Jacalyn Duffin

Christopher Dummitt

Marilyn Dumont

Norma Dunning

Phillip Dwight Morgan

Jannie Edwards

Modris Eksteins

francesca ekwuyasi

Omar El Akkad

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Alicia Elliott

Deborah Ellis

Marina Endicott

Tyler Engström

Patrick James Errington

Leah Jane Esau

Gwyneth Evans

Charelle Evelyn

Brian Fawcett

Will Ferguson

Trevor Ferguson

Raoul Fernandes

Paola Ferrante

Timothy Findley

Charlie Fiset

Erin Frances Fisher

Rebecca Fisseha

James FitzGerald

Charles Foran

Andrew Forbes

Brian Francis

Sylvia Fraser

Victoria Freeman

Omer Friedlander

Matti Friedman

Kathy Friedman

Rivka Galchen

Mavis Gallant

Steven Galloway

Adam Garnet Jones

Zsuzsi Gartner

C.E. Gatchalian

Marie-Louise Gay

Graeme Gibson

Mylene Gilbert-Dumas

Charlotte Gill

Melissa J. Gismondi

Terri E. Givens

Terri E. Givens
Susan Glickman

Douglas Glover

Rebecca Godfrey

Eddie Goldenberg

Michelle Good

Seyward Goodhand

Allan Gotlieb

Katherine Govier

Barbara Gowdy

Linda Goyette

Monica Graham

James Grainger

J. L. Granatstein

Shauntay Grant

Jessica Grant

Shelagh D. Grant

Elise Gravel

Allison Graves

Charlotte Gray

Monique Gray Smith

Elizabeth Greene

Taras Grescoe

Daniel Griffin

Rudyard Griffiths

Gord Grisenthwaite

Janice Gross Stein

Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang

Brett Josef Grubisic

Sylvia D. Hamilton

Eaton Hamilton

Catherine Hanrahan

Kevin Hardcastle

Adrian Harewood

Michael Harris

Kenneth Harvey

Elisabeth Harvor

Khalida Hassan
Luke Hathaway

Elizabeth Hay

Henry Heavyshield

Chantal Hébert

Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre
Steven Heighton

Lee Henderson

Catherine Hernandez

Nicholas Herring

Trevor Herriot

Benjamin Hertwig

Tomson Highway

Lawrence Hill

Ernest Hillen

Norman Hillmer

Susan Holbrook

Teya Hollier

Greg Hollingshead

Lorax B. Horne

Polly Horvath

David Huebert

Helen Humphreys

Aislinn Hunter

Douglas Hunter

Maureen Hynes

Elio Iannacci

John Ibbitson

Djamila Ibrahim

Michael Ignatieff

George Ilsley

Frances Itani

Marni Jackson

Hazel Jane Plante

Nayani Jensen

Paulette Jiles

Marthe Jocelyn

Jessica Johns

Harold R. Johnson

William Johnson

Michael Johnson

Wayne Johnston

Julie Johnston

shalan joudry

Nyanza Julian
Sarah Kabamba

Vivette J. Kady

Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Guy Gavriel Kay

Anna Ling Kaye

Jesse Keith Butler

Kaie Kellough

Reid Kerr Keller

Tasha Kheiriddin

Stephen Kimber

Sheung - King

Barbara Kingscote

Mark Kingwell

Jónína Kirton

Chelene Knight

Tamai Kobayashi

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

Taylor Lambert

Kevin Lambert

Shaena Lambert

Colette Langlois

Iain Lawrence

Grant Lawrence

Sarah Leavitt
Erica Violet Lee

Jessica J Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee

Sylvia Legris

Catherine Leroux

Carrianne Leung

Norman Levine

Stephen Lewis

Joanna Lilley

Tracey Lindberg

Dorothy Livesey

Billie Livingston

Lynette Loeppky

Angela Long

Daysha Loppie

Canisia Lubrin

Jeanette Lynes
Janice Lynn Mather

Greg MacArthur

Flora MacDonald

Jake MacDonald

Sherry MacDonald

L. Ian MacDonald

Judy MacDonald

Robert Macfarlane

David Macfarlane

J.B. MacKinnon

Hugh MacLennan

Alexander MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod

Margaret MacMillan

Samantha Jade Macpherson

Anand Mahadevan

Rabindranath Maharaj

Stephen Maher

Terese Marie Mailhot

Antonine Maillet

Antonia Maioni

Andrea Mandel-Campbell

David Manicom

Julie Mannell

Peter Mansbridge

Jonathan Manthorpe

Jean Marc Ah-Sen

Dave Margoshes

Jean Marmoreo

Garth Martens

Sandra Martin

Lawrence Martin

Domenica Martinello

Derek Mascarenhas

James Maskalyk

Terese Mason Pierre

Stacey Matson

Larry Matthews

Debra Mattson

Laura Matwichuk

Robyn Maynard

John Bentley Mays

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

Ian McKay and Jamie Swift

Allegra McKenzie

Beverley McLachlin

Darrel J. McLeod

Susan McMaster

Linda McQuaig

Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Sean Michaels

Rohinton Mistry

Michael Mitchell

W.O. Mitchell

Sara Mojtehedzadeh

Charles Montgomery

Jeffrey Moore

Christopher Moore

Pamela Mordecai

Jas M. Morgan

Kim Moritsugu

Megan Elizabeth Morrison

Omar Mouallem

Colleen Murphy

George Murray

Susan Musgrave

Alessandra Naccarato

Darlene Naponse

Mahtab Narsimhan

Dimitri Nasrallah

Saleema Nawaz

Rahela Nayebzadah

Max & Monique Nemni

Peter C. Newman

Billeh Nickerson

Shanice Nicole

Hal Niedzviecki

Susin Nielsen

Andrew Nikiforuk

Donna Bailey Nurse
Samantha Nutt

Grace O’Connell

Kady O'Malley

Heather O’Neill

Anthony Oliveira

Kenneth Oppel

James Orbinski

Fen Osler Hampson

Deborah Ostrovsky

Anna Mehler Paperny

Marnie Parsons

Emily Paskevics

Kevin Patterson

Soraya Peerbaye

Brigitte Pellerin

Julie Pellissier-Lush

Colin N Perkel

Benjamin Perrin

Sandra Perron

Charlie Petch

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

Amanda Peters

Zoey Leigh Peterson

Michael Petrou

Elizabeth Philips

Jane Philpott

Shelagh Plunkett

Emily Pohl-Weary

Jacques Poitras

Daniel Poliquin

Christopher Pollon

Stephen Poloz

Michelle Porter

Kerry Lee Powell

Robert Priest

Heather Pringle

Michael Prior

Paul Quarrington

Hannah Rahimi
Danny Ramadan

Jeanne Randolph

Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud

Michael Redhill

Zalika Reid-Benta

Waubgeshig Rice

David Adams Richards

Jael Richardson

Mordecai Richler

Tanis Rideout

Alasdair Roberts

Siobhan Roberts

Eliza Robertson

David A. Robertson

Ray Robertson

Eden Robinson

January Rogers

Barbara Romanik

Rebecca Rosenblum

Laisha Rosnau

Jeffrey Round

Armand Garnet Ruffo

Sharanpal Ruprai

Harley Rustad

Elizabeth Ruth

Naben Ruthnum

Kerri Sakamoto

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

Jasmine Sealy

Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

Paul Seesequasis

Sarah Selecky

Zoe Imani Sharpe

Christina Sharpe

Julian Sher and William Marsden

Nilofar Shidmehr

Carol Shields

Suzannah Showler

Miriam Shuchman

Melanie Siebert

Maggie Siggins

Mireille Silcoff

Antanas Sileika

Merilyn Simonds

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Johanna Skibsrud

Cooper Skjeie

Josef Skvorecky

Graham Slaughter

Ruby Slipperjack

Carolyn Smart

Michael V. Smith

Steven Ross Smith

Russell Smith

Kilby Smith-McGregor

Andrew Stobo Sniderman
Aubrianna Snow

Carrie Snyder

Margaret Somerville

Linda Spalding

Rosemary Speirs

Jakub Stachurski

John Stackhouse

Edna Staebler

Graham Steele

Andrew Steinmetz

Angela Sterritt

Valerie Stetson

Geoffrey Stevens

Wendi Stewart

John Elizabeth Stintzi

Daniel Stoffman

Pablo Strauss

Sneha Subramanian Kanta

Rosemary Sullivan

Merna Summers

Margaret Sweatman

Miguel Syjuco

Mariko Tamaki

Darcy Tamayose

Darcy Tara McDiarmid

Timothy Taylor

Drew Hayden Taylor

Ruth Teichroeb

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Manjushree Thapa

John and Mary Theberge
Madeleine Thien

Kai Cheng Thom

Rebecca Thomas

Audrey Thomas

Debra Thompson

Cheryl Thompson

Jan Thornhill

Dragan Todorovic

Matthew Trafford

Rhea Tregebov

Laura Trethewey

Karianne Trudeau Beaunoyer

Ayelet Tsabari

Karen Tulchinsky

Élise Turcotte

Robert Turner

Anne-Marie Turza

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

Katherena Vermette

Margaret Visser

Eleanor Wachtel

Chris Waddell

Richard Wagamese
Rinaldo Walcott

Pamela Wallin

David Walmsley
Isabella Wang

Russell Wangersky

Dianne Warren

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Shannon Webb-Campbell

Barry Webster

Matthew James Weigel

Merrily Weisbord

Jennifer Welsh

Darren Wershler

Thomas Wharton

Margo Wheaton

Joshua Whitehead

Bill Whitehead

Eileen Whitfield

Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson

Robert Wiersema

Charles Wilkins

Jenny Heijun Wills

Jody Wilson-Raybould

jia qing wilson-yang
Donald Winkler

Hugh F. Winsor

Kathleen Winter

Michael Winter

Wendy H. Wong

Ronald Wright

Kathleen Wynne

Tim Wynne-Jones

Shō Yamagushiku
