Stephen Leahy has been reporting on the Earth’s biosphere — our planet’s thin layer of life — for 25 years. His work appears in National Geographic News , Vice Motherboard , The Guardian , Maclean’s, Mongabay, Ensia, and many other publications. He was senior environment correspondent for the Inter Press… Read more
Alan Neal is host of Ottawa’s favourite drive home show All in a Day, on CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM. All in a Day is music, news, current affairs, culture, theatre, movies, politics, history, humour and conversation – all wrapped up in an engaging and entertaining package. Airing weekdays from… Read more
Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who makes his home in Ottawa, Canada. This author of more than seventy adult, young adult, and children’s books has won the World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, and White Pine awards, among others. Modern Library’s Top 100 Books of the 20th Century… Read more
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages. His latest fantasy/science fiction novel for DAW Books, MASTER OF THE WORLD, will be brand-new at Can-Con, having released in mid-September; it’s Book 2 of his series, WORLDSHAPERS,… Read more
Marie Bilodeau is an Ottawa-based author and storyteller, with eight published books to her name. Her speculative fiction has won several awards and has been translated into French (Les Éditions Alire) and Chinese (SF World). Her short stories have also appeared in various anthologies. In a past life not-so-long ago,… Read more
Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning editor, playwright, novelist and short story writer. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition; it was translated and published in French. His trilogy, The Steele Chronicles, were each nominated for an Aurora Award. Stealing Home, the third book, was… Read more
Brett Savory is the Managing Editor of ChiZine Publications, and has had over 50 short stories published—some of those collected in No Further Messages—as well as three novels, A Perfect Machine, In and Down and The Distance Travelled. He’s halfway through his fourth novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing,… Read more
Mark Robinson is a Canadian adventurer, storm chaser, and meteorologist. Recently named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Explorers by Canadian Geographic, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Mark has chased (and has been chased) by tornadoes across Canada and the United States. Mark has… Read more
Jay Odjick is an Anishinabe writer and artist from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin Nation in Quebec. After KAGAGI: The Raven was published by Arcana Comics, Jay co-founded a production company that produced a television series called Kagagi based on the graphic novel and is an executive producer on the… Read more
Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) PhD ABD is a queer, nonbinary, disabled activist, artist, author, and academic. Derek teaches at Trent University, where they research representations of disability in Canadian Speculative Fiction. Derek has two new books out this year – We Shall Be Monsters (Renaissance Press) and Over the Rainbow: Folk… Read more