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Local Authors: Home

Discover local writing talent - from Winnipeg, Manitoba and Canada

Welcome!

Searching for the best books around? No need to look further than your own backyard - our city, province and country are brimming with writing talent. We've got powerful poets and playwrights, fantastic fiction writers, and everything in between. This guide makes it easy to discover local authors, whether they live down the street or a few provinces over. There's even a tab for stories set in Winnipeg - you'll be reciting North End Love Songs before you know it!

What's new

Wild Failure by: Zoe Whittall
Other Valley by: Scott Alexander Howard
Prairie by: Edge Conor Kerr
We Rip the World Apart by: Charlene Carr
Silver Repetition by: Lily Wang
Last Woman by: Carleigh Baker
Pride and Joy by: Louisa Onomé
Laundryman's Boy by: Edward Y. C. Lee
What's Not Mine by: Nora Decter
Village Weavers by: Myriam J. A. Chancy
Death by a Thousand Cuts by: Shashi Bhat
Behind You by: Catherine Hernandez
Waiting for the Long Night Moon by: Amanda Peters

Canada Reads shortlist 2024

Bad Cree by: Jessica Johns
Denison Avenue by: Christina Wong & Daniel Innes
Meet Me at the Lake by: Carley Fortune
Shut Up You're Pretty by: Téa Mutonji
The Future by: Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou

Outstanding audiobooks

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Thunder through my veins by Gregory Scofield
I'm afraid of men by Vivek Shraya
A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
Moon of the crusted snow by Waubgeshig Rice
I must say by Martin Short
The inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
Beyond the trees by Adam Shoalts
The boat people by Sharon Bala

Great graphic novels

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett
Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Louis Riel by Chester Brown
Skim by Mariko Tamaki
The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson
Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and me : a graphic memoir by Lorina Mapa
Betty : the Helen Betty Osborne story by David Robertson
Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley
This one summer by Mariko Tamaki
Dumb : Living without a voice : a graphic memoir by Georgia Webber
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