Calgary writer Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize), Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense (another Calgary Book Prize winner) and, most recently, Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers.

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author of “The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization.” The book has been translated into five languages, was a finalist for a PEN America award and a California Book Award, and spawned a TED talk.

Carly Lewis has been a freelance journalist since 2012. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, Wired, the Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, Elle, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, The Atlantic, Hazlitt, The Guardian and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor.

Arno has been a full time freelance journalist and author for over fifteen years. After graduating from the University of Victoria in 2001 with a double major in Creative Writing and Environmental Studies, he spent two years in Spain teaching English and studying Spanish.

A National Magazine Award-winning journalist. Bonny began her career as an editor at Today’s Parent, Canadian’s largest parenting magazine, moving up in seniority before switching to Chatelaine with a then-readership of 3.1 million.

Eva has been a full time freelancer for the past fourteen years. Much of her work focuses on the environment, especially the intersection of wilderness and society.

Josiah Neufeld grew up in Burkina Faso the son of evangelical Christian missionaries. Alarmed and awakened to the ecological crisis humanity faces, Josiah journeys on a quest for a spirituality that he hopes will transcend the religious binaries of his childhood faith and rise to meet the crisis of his time.

Alex Roslin is a journalist based in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He has focused on social justice and investigative reporting for nearly 30 years.

Francesca Bianco was raised in Smithers, British Columbia, graduated from McGill University in English literature, and completed her master’s degree in journalism at the University of British Columbia in 2018.

Roberta Staley is a Vancouver-based, independent magazine editor, writer, columnist, documentary filmmaker and author. Voice of Rebellion – How Mozhdah Jamalzadah Brought Hope to Afghanistan is her first book.

Nicholas Hune-Brown is a Toronto-based magazine journalist who has been published in places like Toronto Life, Slate, The Walrus, The Guardian, Hazlitt, Reader’s Digest, The Believer, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star.

Angela Mombourquette is an award-winning freelance writer and columnist, and the author of 25 Years of 22 Minutes: An Unauthorized Oral History of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Human rights activist, journalist and award-winning author Sally Armstrong has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world.

Geoff Dembicki is a freelance journalist and author based in Vancouver, BC. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University in 2008 and started his writing career at The Tyee (thetyee.ca) covering the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Arno is a Vancouver freelance writer, a graduate from the University of Victoria and later he interned at Harper's in New York and The Walrus in Toronto.

Chris Benjamin, a Halifax freelance writer, is the winner of the $5000.00 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award. The winning chapter titled Creation Story is from his forthcoming book The Shubenacadie Indian Residential School.

Paul Webster, a Toronto-based freelance writer, is the winner of the $2000.00 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Award for his article Adverse Reactions, published in Vancouver Magazine.

The Walrus published the Chris Turner's winning article, entitled "On Tipping in Cuba," in April 2012. It tells the story of a writer discovering the uncomfortable socio-economics of the cheap beach vacation.

Ms. Cockrall-King's successful submission was the ninth chapter of her first book, Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution. The book was published by Prometheus Books in February 2012.

Chris has worked as a writer and editor for magazines, ranging from Rolling Stone and the New Republic to the University of Chicago Magazine and the Journal of Visual Anthropology. He is the author of four books on music and travel, as well as a bestselling political satire.

In 2009 Mr. DiCintio won the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for his article titled Walls of Shame published by Geist Magazine. It is an adaptation of a chapter from his book in progress about communities that live in the shadow of walls, fences and other "hard" barriers.

Deborah Campbell, Vancouver freelance writer, is the 2008 winner of the recently redesigned Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Awards for her article published in the April 2008 issue of Harper's magazine entitled Exodus: Where will Iraq Go Next?

The 2007 recipient of the award was John Vigna, a Vancouver freelance writer. Mr. Vigna's successful submission, his magazine article The Ballad of Big and Small about his relationship to his drug and alcoholic addicted brother and the family in which they grew up, was published in the fall of 2007 by Grain Magazine.

The 2006 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award was Gordon Laird, a Calgary freelance writer. Mr. Laird's successful submission, The Price of a Bargain, is a chapter from his new book, The Quest for Cheap and The Death of Globalization (updated title) published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd..

Mr. Brennan's winning submission was for the chapter What's in a Name?-1896, Ha Ling Finally Gets his Due Recognition, from his book, Romancing the Rockies, published by Fifth House Ltd., a Fitzhenry and Whiteside Company.