Billeh Nickerson
Billeh Nickerson will be at Berton House from July to September 2010. An editor, performer, and arts advocate, his most recent publication is the poetry collection McPoems. He is working on a cycle of poems about the Titanic.

Sara Tilley
Sara Tilley will be at Berton House from January to March 2011. A writer, theatre artist, and clown, she lives and works in St. John’s. Her novel The Skin Room was a finalist for multiple awards. She is currently completing a novel based on her great-grandfather’s journals and letters, which relate, among other things, his experience working on a Yukon River steamer.

Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail will be at Berton House from October to December 2010. A writer and a reseracher, she recently moved to Edmonton and is working on a comprehensive history of aviation in Canada's north.

Jeanne Randolph
Jeanne Randoph will be at Berton House from April to June 2011. One of Canada’s foremost cultural theorists, she has been writing, publishing, and lecturing for more than thirty years. She is the author of Ethics of Luxury: Materials and Imagination and, most recently, The Critical Object. She lives in Winnipeg and is working on her sixth book, Art and the Godliness of Goods.

The Writers

2011

Jeanne Randolph, Winnipeg, MB
Sara Tilley, St. John's, NL

2010

Danielle Metcalf-Chenail, Edmonton, AB
Billeh Nickerson, Toronto, ON
Jeramy Dodds, Fredericton, NB
Mylène Gilbert-Dumas, Sherbrooke, Quebec

2009

Linda Goyette, Edmonton, AB
Pasha Malla, New York, New York
Robert D. Turner, Victoria, BC
Jalal Barzanji, Edmonton, Alberta

2008

Frances Backhouse, Victoria, BC
Elin Kelsey, Bowen Island, BC
Charlotte Gray, Ottawa, Ontario
Monica Graham, Sundridge, Nova Scotia

2007

George Ilsley, Vancouver, BC
Robert Sawyer, Toronto, Ontario
Lisa Pasold, Montreal, Quebec
Julie Burtinshaw, Vancouver, British Columbia

2006

Bruce McDougall, Toronto, Ontario
Phil Hall, Toronto, Ontario
C. E. Gatchalian, Vancouver, BC
Gregory M. Cook, St. John, NB

2005

Charles Wilkins,Thunder Bay, Ontario
Lulu Keating, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Paul McKay, Westport, Ontario

2004

Dick North, Dawson City, Yukon
Brian McKillop, Ottawa, Ontario
Eric Wilson, Victoria, BC

2003

Mark Zuehlke, Victoria, BC
George Fetherling, Vancouver, BC
Jan Thornhill, Sudbury, Ontario

2002

Andrea and David Spalding, Pender Island, BC
Ken McGoogan, Calgary, Alberta
Wayne Curtis, Miramichi, NB

2001

Maureen Hull, Pictou Island, Nova Scotia
Suzanne Harnois, Montreal, Quebec
Benjamin Gallander, Toronto, Ontario
Rachel Manley, Toronto, Jamaica
Steven Heighton, Kingston, Ontario

2000

Kelly Aitken, Toronto, Ontario
Sally Clark, Vancouver, BC
Luanne Armstrong, Vancouver, BC

1999

Julie Brickman, Carlsbad, Ontario
Mansel Robinson, Prince Albert, Alberta
Carmine Starnino, Montreal, Quebec
Darlene St. Pierre, Ladysmith, BC

1998

Michael Kusugak, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
Tess Fragoulis, Montreal, Quebec
Julie Lawson, Sooke, BC
Yvonne Harris, Whitehorse, Yukon

1997

Andrew Pyper, Toronto, Ontario
Audrey Thomas, Galiano Island, BC

1996

Russell Smith, Toronto, Ontario