2025 Guest Authors
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Adam Shoalts   ...   Ian Ferguson   ...   Shashi Bhat
Scott Alexander Howard ... more to be announced!

Adam Shoalts

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... is a professional adventurer and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects, but Shoalts is best known for his long solo journeys, including crossing alone nearly 4,000 km of Canada’s Arctic.

Named one of the “greatest living explorers” by CBC and even declared “Canada’s Indiana Jones” by the Toronto Star, Shoalts’s latest adventure was a 3,400 km solo journey from Lake Erie to the Arctic, the subject of his new national bestselling book Where the Falcon Flies.

His other books include Alone Against the North, A History of Canada in 10 Maps, Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic, and The Whisper on the Night Wind, all of them national bestsellers. He has a PhD from McMaster University in history, and in his free time, enjoys long walks in the woods.

Ian Ferguson

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... won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother, Will, of How to Be a Canadian, which was shortlisted for the Leacock Medal and won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction.

He is the co-author, with Will Ferguson, of the bestselling Miranda Abbott Mysteries, I Only Read Murder, Mystery in the Title, and the upcoming Killer on the First Page, and has written several humour books, most notably The Survival Guide to British Columbia. He has also written & directed for the theatre,
radio, and film & television.

Shashi Bhat

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... is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts, and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth, and The Family Took Shape. 

Her fiction has received the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, and was longlisted for the Giller Prize.

Shashi’s work has appeared in such publications as Hazlitt, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize Stories. She is the editor of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College.

Scott Alexander Howard

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... lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature.

The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com.

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