2026 Confirmed Authors
(scroll to read bios below)

 Michael Crummey   ...   Conor Kerr   ...   Vincent Lam   ...   Tracey Lindberg   ...  
Clarie Mulligan   ...   Garth Mullins   ...   Maria Reva   ...   Iona Whishaw

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Michael Crummey

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Michael Crummey is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood. He is also the author of the novels The Wreckage, a national bestseller and finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Galore, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel and finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Sweetland, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; and The Innocents, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. His most recent novel, The Adversary, was a #1 national bestseller.

Michael Crummey lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

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Conor Kerr

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Conor Kerr is a national award losing Métis/Ukrainian writer and bird hunter living in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), born in Saskatoon, and raised in Buffalo Pound Lake and Drayton Valley. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Conor is the author of the novels Avenue of Champions, which won the 2022 RELIT Award, was shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon/Walrus Debut Novel Award, and was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize, and Prairie Edge, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize and the 2024 Writer’s Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Award and won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novel award.

He has also published the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers, and Old Gods, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and named one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023. His latest book is the poetic novella, Beaver Hills Forever. He has a forthcoming novel, Duck Blind, coming out in 2027.

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Vincent Lam

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Vincent Lam’s first book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was adapted for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. The Headmaster’s Wager, Dr. Lam’s first novel, was shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award and the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. Dr. Lam is also the co-author of The Flu Pandemic and You, a non-fiction guide to influenza pandemics, which received a Special Recognition Award by the American Medical Writers’ Association in 2007. He served as executive editor and co-author of the textbook, Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Prescriber's Guide to Treatment, published in 2022. In 2011, he published a biography of Tommy Douglas, Father Of Medicare, for Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians Series.

Dr. Lam is an emergency physician and addictions physician who lives in Toronto. He is the medical director of the Coderix Medical Clinic. His most recent novel is On The Ravine.

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Tracey Lindberg

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Tracey Lindberg is the author of two bestselling works: Birdie and The Cree Word for Love: Sâkihitowin. Her work has been recognized, much lauded and nominated for a number of awards. A proud citizen of the As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw (Kelly Lake Cree Nation), she is a little mother, an aunty, a partner, a daughter, a niece, a sister and a cousin and works hard at building meaningful relationships while maintaining her status as asocial.

Dr. Lindberg is also a professor and teaches Indigenous laws and legal orders and trans systemic law. She does community work and publishes academic in the areas of Nehiyaw and Indigenous law, Indigenous legal education, Indigenous legal theory and Indigenous law and love. She sings the blues and is always looking for a band with whom to create music and sound.

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Claire Mulligan

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Claire’s historical novels--The Reckoning of Boston Jim and – have been nominated for the Giller Prize, the BC Book Prize, and the Canadian Author’s Award. Her multi-award-winning short fiction has appeared in Writers Magazine, Grain, The Tulane Review, Canadian Author, the Dalhousie Review, and the Antigonish Review amongst others.

In 2017 Claire earned an MFA screenwriting with a focus on adaptation. Her latest script, Obscura, has won multiple awards including best short screenplay at the 2024 Leo Awards and the Pacific Rim Film Festival. She teaches at Uvic Continuing Education and offers writing courses, workshops, and author interviews at mulliganmethod.ca. Claire is the Haig-Brown writer-in residence for 2026. During that time, she will be working on a screenplay and a novel and offering workshops and consultations.

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Garth Mullins

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Garth Mullins is a best-selling author of his debut book, Crackdown, harm-reduction activist, award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and musician. He was an injection heroin user for over a decade, during which time he overdosed and survived. He is now an organizer with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, where he works with others trying to end the mass death. He has saved over a dozen people from overdose death. Garth is executive producer and host of the award-winning podcast Crackdown. He lives in Vancouver.

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Maria Reva

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Maria Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. She is the author of the short story collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear, and the novel Endling, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, and was the winner of the Atwood Gibson’s Writer Trust Fiction Prize in 2025. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere, earning a National Magazine Award. She also works as an opera librettist. 

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Iona Whishaw

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Iona Whishaw is the bestselling author of the the Lane Winslow mystery series. She is the winner of the Bonny Blythe light mystery award and two time finalist for both the Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Award and the Crime Writers of Canada Award. Whishaw been a youth worker, social worker, teacher and an award winning High School Principal, who continued with her writing throughout her working life. Receiving her Masters in Creative writing from UBC, Iona has also published short fiction, poetry, poetry translation and one children’s book, Henry and the Cow Problem.

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