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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
