List of Canadian short story writers
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- Caroline AddersonCaroline AddersonCaroline Adderson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.-Personal life and career:...
- Kelley AitkenKelley AitkenKelley Aitken is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and art instructor.Aitken was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Fine Arts. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Love in a Warm Climate , was short-listed for the 1999...
- André AlexisAndré AlexisAndré Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....
- Gail Anderson-DargatzGail Anderson-DargatzGail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz is a Canadian novelist.Anderson-Dargatz was born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia and studied creative writing at the University of Victoria...
- Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
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- Peter BehrensPeter Behrens (writer)Peter Behrens is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. His debut novel, The Law of Dreams, won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction....
- Moe BergMoe Berg (musician)Moe Berg is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the rock group The Pursuit of Happiness.-Biography:...
- David BezmozgisDavid BezmozgisDavid Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....
- Sandra BirdsellSandra BirdsellSandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage....
- Dennis BockDennis BockDennis Bock is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His latest novel, The Communist's Daughter, published in 2006 by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon...
- George BoweringGeorge BoweringGeorge Harry Bowering, OC, OBC is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate....
- Joseph BoydenJoseph BoydenJoseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize...
- Ernest Buckler
- Bonnie BurnardBonnie BurnardBonnie Burnard is a Canadian novelist.She grew up in Forest, Ontario, lived much of her life in Saskatchewan, and now lives in London, Ontario.-Awards:...
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- Morley CallaghanMorley CallaghanMorley Callaghan, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality.-Biography:...
- Roch CarrierRoch CarrierRoch Carrier, OC is a Canadian novelist and author of "contes" . He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada....
- Joan ClarkJoan ClarkJoan Clark BA, D.Litt is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957...
- Austin ClarkeAustin ClarkeAustin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...
- Lynn CoadyLynn Coady-Life and career:Coady grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright...
- Matt Cohen
- Isabella Valancy CrawfordIsabella Valancy CrawfordIsabella Valancy Crawford was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer....
- Michael CrummeyMichael CrummeyMichael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in...
- Richard CumynRichard CumynRichard Cumyn is a Canadian writer, primarily of short fiction. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.-Bibliography:*The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X - 1994, ISBN 0-86492-176-4...
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- Timothy FindleyTimothy FindleyTimothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...
- Stephen FinucanStephen Finucan-Life:Finucan graduated from Trent University with a BA in literature and the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing. He is an instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and an English/Writer's Craft teacher at Martingrove Collegiate Institute, as well as...
- Jon Paul FiorentinoJon Paul FiorentinoJon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he currently teaches at Concordia University, is editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine and founded Snare Books , a Canadian publishing Company....
- Anne FlemingAnne Fleming (writer)Anne Fleming is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended the University of Waterloo, first enrolling in a geography program then moving to English studies. In 1991, she moved to British Columbia. She teaches at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus in Kelowna...
- Cynthia FloodCynthia FloodCynthia Flood is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up in Toronto...
- Tess FragoulisTess FragoulisTess Fragoulis is a Canadian writer and educator. Born in Heraklion, Crete, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where she attended Concordia University. Her first book, Stories to Hide from Your Mother , was nominated for the QSPELL First Book Award. One of the stories was adapted for the...
- Raymond FraserRaymond FraserRaymond Fraser is a Canadian author.Born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Fraser attended St Thomas University where in his freshman year he played on the varsity hockey and football teams, and in his junior year was co-editor with John Brebner of the student literary magazine Tom-Tom...
- Natalie Fruman
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- Mavis GallantMavis GallantMavis Leslie Gallant, , née Mavis Leslie Young is a Canadian writer.-Biography:An only child, Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried. Gallant received her education at seventeen different public, convent, and French-language boarding...
- Hugh GarnerHugh GarnerHugh Garner was a Canadian novelist.Born in Batley, Yorkshire, England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States, and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish...
- Zsuzsi GartnerZsuzsi GartnerZsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist.Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MFA from the...
- Elyse GascoElyse GascoElyse Gasco, MA is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree....
- Bill GastonBill GastonBill Gaston is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer.Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia....
- Margaret Gibson
- John Patrick GilleseJohn Patrick GilleseJohn Patrick Gillese was an Irish-born Canadian author whose prolific career spanned six decades from the early 1940s to the late 1990s...
- Danuta GleedDanuta GleedDanuta Gleed was a Canadian writer.She was born in Kenya in a British camp for displaced persons where she spent her early childhood. In 1958, her family moved to England...
- John GouldJohn Gould (Canadian writer)John Gould is a Canadian short story writer from Victoria, British Columbia. He has published two books of short fiction, The Kingdom of Heaven: 88 Palm-of-the-Hand Stories in 1996 and Kilter: 55 fictions in 2003. Kilter was nominated for the Giller Prize.Gould currently teaches creative writing at...
- Katherine GovierKatherine GovierKatherine Mary Govier is a Canadian novelist. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she was educated at the University of Alberta and York University. In 1997, she was awarded the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Prior to that she was shortlisted for the Trillium Award in 1994, and won...
- Barbara GowdyBarbara GowdyBarbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
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- Alexander MacLeodAlexander MacLeod (writer)Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer. His debut short story collection Light Lifting was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award....
- Alistair MacLeodAlistair MacLeodAlistair MacLeod, OC is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.- Academic career :...
- Paul MarlowePaul MarlowePaul Marlowe is a Canadian author of historical fiction and science fiction. Much of his historical fiction is connected in some way with the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society devoted to investigating unusual or supernatural phenomena.-Radio Plays:...
- Derek McCormackDerek McCormack (writer)Derek McCormack is a Canadian novelist and short story writer whose work is characterized by its extreme brevity and its humorous, often distinctly queer forms of sexual darkness....
- Stuart McLeanStuart McLeanAndrew Stuart McLean is a Canadian radio broadcaster, humourist and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio programme The Vinyl Cafe. He is often described as a "story-telling comic", though he has written many serious stories...
- Lisa MooreLisa Moore (writer)Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...
- Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
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- Andy QuanAndy QuanAndy Quan , is a Chinese-Canadian author who now lives in Sydney, Australia. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact...
- Mordecai RichlerMordecai RichlerMordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...
- Spider RobinsonSpider RobinsonSpider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.- Biography :Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State...
- Rebecca RosenblumRebecca RosenblumRebecca Rosenblum is a Canadian author best known for her short stories.-Life:Rosenblum was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She attended McGill University and received her Honours Bachelor of English in 2001, and in 2007 she graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts in English and...
- Sinclair RossSinclair RossJames Sinclair Ross, CM was a Canadian banker and author, best known for his fiction about life in the Canadian prairies. He is best known for his first novel, As For Me and My House.-Life and career:...
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- Sandra SabatiniSandra SabatiniSandra Sabatini is a Canadian writer.Born in Guelph, Ontario, Sabatini is a graduate of the doctoral program in English Literature at the University of Waterloo...
- Sarah SeleckySarah SeleckySarah Selecky is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection This Cake is for the Party was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 2010....
- Jaspreet SinghJaspreet SinghJaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef , and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He is a former research scientist who holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University...
- Neil SmithNeil Smith (writer)Neil Smith is a Canadian short story writer. A three-time nominee for the Journey Prize and winner of an honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards, Smith published his debut collection, Bang Crunch, with Knopf Canada in 2007...
- Joel A. SutherlandJoel A. SutherlandJoel A. Sutherland is a Canadian author and editor of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and Be a Writing Superstar Sutherland's writing has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the Black Quill Award...
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- Jane UrquhartJane UrquhartJane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
- Guy VanderhaegheGuy VanderhaegheGuy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West...
- Ethel WilsonEthel WilsonEthel Davis Wilson, OC was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels.Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, she moved to England in 1890 following the death of her mother. In 1898, after the death of her father, she was taken to live with her maternal grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia...
See also: List of Canadian writers