Canadian Writers
Writers' Listings on This Site - Sites Listing Canadian Writers - Other Writers' Listings
This page is not intended to be an index of Canadian writers. Rather, this is a starting place where you can look for a writer to hire or locate lists of Canadian writers.
Please do not ask to add personal pages. A link to a website that lists an extensive cross-section of Canadian writers (past or present) would be a welcome addition to this page.
Writers' Listings on This Site
These are the location on this site that have listings of Canadian writers.
CAA Members' Sites is a great place to look for a writer!
http://www.CanAuthors.org/members.html
The Canadian Authors Association Awards winners (past and present) are another valuable listing of Canadian writers:
- CAA Award for Fiction winners.
- CAA Award for Poetry winners.
- CAA Award for Drama winners.
- CAA BookLand Press Emerging Writer Award.
- CAA Award for Short Stories winners.
- CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History winners.
- CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography winners.
- CAA Vicky Metcalf Award winners.
Sites Listing Canadian Writers
Authors in Their Own Write — a series of podcasts features interviews with Canadian authors who are discussing their works and their writing experiences. Created and hosted by National Capital Region (Ottawa) Branch.
http://www.canauthors-ottawa.org/authorpodcasts.shtml
Canadian Writers: some of Canada's most celebrated writers presented by Library and Archives Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/writers/index-e.html
CBC Digital Archives: Literature contains interviews with Canadian literary figures.
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/literature
CBC Digital Archives: Poetry contains interviews with Canadian poets.
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/poetry/
Northwest Passages maintains a listing of Canadian Authors (and other resources).
http://www.nwpassages.com/links.asp
Canadian Authors Network: Helping Canadian Authors connect to fans worldwide.
http://canadianauthors.ning.com
Canadian Authors Index on the Online Guide to Canadian Writing.
http://www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/index.html
Canadian Writers: a Bio-Bibliographical Resource includes biographical and bibliographical information about contemporary Canadian writers.
http://quarles.unbc.ca/kbeeler_html/research/canwrit.html
Individual Writers & Their Works maintained by David Lucking.
http://www.lucking.net/canlinks/cl_writers_a.htm
The Canadian Literature Archive - Authors List a project of the English Department at the University of Manitoba.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/canlit/authorlist/index.shtml
Contemporary Canadian Poets listed by the University of Toronto English Library.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/index_poet.htm
Well Known Canadian Authors.
http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/authors.html
Kidsreads.com also maintains a list of links to children's author sites.
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp
Celebration of Women Writers: Writers From Canada.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/CANADA.html
Other Writers' Lists
WritersNet is the Internet directory of writers, editors, publishers and literary agents. If you are a published writer (or a literary agent) and have a website you may wish to register.
http://www.writers.net
www.canauthors.org/links/writers.html
Updated: August 11, 2010
