Literary Journalism 2025

Dr. Kyo Maclear is an essayist, editor, novelist and children’s author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages, published in over twenty-five countries, and garnered nominations from the Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and the National Magazine Awards. Her nonfiction books include the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets (2023). She holds a doctorate in Environmental Humanities and teaches writing at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA and Humber School for Writers. She is an editor-at-large with Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada where she curates a collection called CRAFT.

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Taras Grescoe, the author of eight non-fiction books (among them the best-selling Bottomfeeder, Shanghai Grand, Straphanger, and The Devil’s Picnic), has been a professional, full-time freelance journalist in Canada for the last thirty years. His works of book-length reportage and creative non-fiction, which have been published in Toronto, New York, and London and translated into half a dozen languages, have received international critical acclaim. His books have won major awards internationally and in Canada (the Mavis Gallant Prize, the Edna Staebler Prize, the Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction) and been finalists for prestigious non-fiction prizes (the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing). His features have appeared in The Walrus, Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail, L’actualité, Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, The National Post and The Ottawa Citizen, and been published around the world in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Travel + Leisure, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Afar, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Times of London and more.

Sarah Berman is a journalist covering crime, politics and culture. Her first book Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM has been shortlisted for a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. She has co-written and produced investigative podcasts including CBC’s Pressure Cooker and State of Play: Summer Games on PRX. Berman’s reporting is featured in the popular Netflix series Escaping Twin Flames. She is a former senior editor at VICE and past contributor to Reuters, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and many more publications.

Amanda Crocker is Managing Editor of Between the Lines, a social movement press founded in 1977. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists who hope their books will spark political and social change. 

As a publishing house, BTL embodies cooperative and democratic ideals: BTL has no boss, no individual owner; it is run by a small staff collective and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee. The press publishes books not to seek profit, but to document and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.