Ontario

Ontario is home to Canada's largest literary community, centered on Toronto, where the country's major publishers, literary agencies, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors all converge. Many of Canada's best-known writers, including Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, have called Toronto home for decades.

Ontario authors work across genres including literary fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, and narrative nonfiction, supported by a strong network of university creative writing programs and writers' organizations. Browse this section to find the personal websites and blogs of authors based throughout Ontario.