Short Story

Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor is a Vancouver writer. His first novel Stanley Park was short-listed for The Giller Prize, The Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, The BC Book Awards, the City of Vancouver Book Award and the Torgi Book Awards. His second novel, Story House, will be published by Knopf Canada in February 2006. Taylor is the only writer ever to place three stories in the same edition of the prestigious Journey Prize Anthology, which he did in 2000. That same year, he went on to win the Journey Prize itself and a National Magazine Award for short fiction. Taylor’s second book, Silent Cruise – A Novella and Stories, was published in 2002 to wide critical acclaim and was first runner up for the Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of short fiction.

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin's first novel What the Body Remembers, the story of two women in a polygamous marriage in Occupied India, received the Commonwealth Prize/Canada-Carribbean region. English Lessons and Other Stories received the Friends of American Writers prize. Her second novel, The Tiger Claw, the story of a Sufi Muslim secret agent searching for her beloved through Occupied France, (Knopf Canada 2004) was a finalist for the Giller Prize.

Ellen Seligman

Ellen Seligman, Publisher (Fiction) and Senior Vice President at McClelland & Stewart, is the publisher and editor of many internationally celebrated Canadian authors and continues to be known as a supporter for first-time and beginning authors whom she also edits. She began her publishing career in New York, where she grew up, and in London, England, before coming to Canada and to M&S in the late 1970s. Ms. Seligman has received professional awards and honours, including the Toronto Arts Award, and, in 2004, she was highlighted in the National Post as one of Canada’s fifty most influential women. She has been profiled in publications such as the Globe and Mail and Toronto Life.

Poetry

Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen is Writer, Poet, Cultural Strategist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. She is an award winning and internationally renowned poet and writer of short stories and plays. One of the originators of the genre, she has specialized in the writing and performing of dub poetry, a highly politicized form of poetry, sometimes set to music. Her recordings Revolutionary Tea Party and Conditions Critical won Juno awards in 1986 and 1988 respectively. She has spent close to three decades writing, publishing, and performing her work in Canada, the US, Europe, and England.

Don Coles

Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Don Coles graduated from the University of Toronto in 1952 with a B.A. in Modern History and an MA in English, after which he did a second MA at Cambridge University. He lived in various European countries until 1965 (writing, working as a translator in Sweden, other jobs and grants). He has published 8 volumes of poetry and one novel in Canada, and one volume of poetry in the U.K. He has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize, and the John Glassco Translation Prize (for a collection of poems by the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer).

Christian Bök

Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence in 2002. Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), his first book of poetry, also earned a nomination for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1995. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon and has earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry. His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s Cubes and Lego) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique.

Travel Writing

Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel - Born in Argentina in 1948, Alberto Manguel is a novelist, essayist, translator and editor. He has lived in Italy, Great Britain and Tahiti, and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. Since A History of Reading, which won critical acclaim and earned him France’s Prix Médicis in 1998, Manguel has published many works, including Reading Pictures (2001), Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (2001), With Borges (2003) and A Reading Diary (2004). He now lives in France.

Noah Richler

Noah Richler worked for BBC Radio for many years, where he produced and hosted documentaries from Asia, Africa, the Arctic and the Americas. He founded BBC Radio 4’s popular alternative travel program, Four Corners, and wrote for a variety of English newspapers and periodicals. He returned to Canada six years ago, as the first literary editor of the National Post, and was subsequently their books columnist. He is currently at work on A Literary Atlas of Canada for McClelland & Stewart, and a related ten-part documentary series for CBC Radio One’s Ideas, to be broadcast in April, 2005.

Arjun Basu

Arjun Basu has been with enRoute since 1997 and has been Editor in Chief since 2001. Since then, enRoute has twice been named the world’s best in-flight magazine by the World Airline Entertainment Association. In all, enRoute has won over 350 national and international awards for its editorial and design during the last decade. A native of Montreal, Arjun’s travels haven’t taken him to as many places as he would like. Prior to enRoute, he worked for five years as an editor of children’s books.