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.

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.

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.