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“ Let’s take a moment and thank the talented authors who provide us with worlds to disappear into, problems we can solve between pages, wonderful characters we adore and villains we love to despise.”
— Jamie Davis
Marcello DiCintio, 2024 Book Award Winner
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, 2023 Book Award Winner
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, 2023 Magazine Winner
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 Kopecky, 2022 Magazine Award Winner
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.
Bonny Reichert, 2022 Book Award Winner
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 Holland, 2021 Magazine Award Winner
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, 2021 Book and 2014 Magazine Award
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, 2020 Magazine Award Co-Winner
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, 2020 Magazine Award Co-Winner
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, 2019 Book Award Winner
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, 2019 Magazine Award Winner
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, 2018 Magazine Award Winner
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.
Sally Armstrong, 2017 Magazine Award Winner
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, 2017 Book Award Winner
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 Kopecky, 2015 Magazine Award Winner
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, 2013 Book Award Winner
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, 2013 Magazine Award Winner
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.
Chris Turner, 2012 Magazine Award Winner
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.
Jennifer Cockrall-King, 2011 Book Award Winner
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 Cannon, 2011 Magazine Award Winner
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.