Chris Turner
Chris Turner was at Berton House between January and March 2013. Based in Calgary, he is the author of three nonfiction books. He is currently writing his first novel, Canadian Shield, a shadow history of the 20th century that blends elements of fiction and nonfiction.

Colleen Murphy
Colleen Murphy will be at Berton House from July to September 2013. She is a playwright and past recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. While staying at Berton House, she will work on a drama set on a potato farm in Prince Edward Island.

Melanie Siebert
Melanie Siebert will be at Berton House from April to June 2013. A poet from Victoria, she intends to focus on new work that “aims to translate the surging and hypnotic energy of rivers, while thinking through colonialism, wilderness, and loss.”

James FitzGerald
James FitzGerald will be at Berton House from October to December 2013. A Toronto-based writer of creative non-fiction, his current works-in-progress is “a true story of first love, sudden death, and ESP set in the summer of 1968.

The Writers

2014

Alan Cumyn, Ottawa, ON
Clem Martini, Calgary, AB

2013

James FitzGerald, Toronto, ON
Colleen Murphy, Toronto, ON
Melanie Siebert, Victoria, BC
Chris Turner, Calgary, AB

2012

Sherry MacDonald, Vancouver, BC
Joan Thomas, Winnipeg, MB
Tim Falconer, Toronto, ON
Lawrence Hill, Hamilton, ON
Dan Dowhal, Toronto, ON

2011

Manjushree Thapa, Toronto, ON
Jacob McArthur Mooney, Toronto, ON
Jeanne Randolph, Winnipeg, MB
Sara Tilley, St. John's, NL

2010

Danielle Metcalfe-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