Events

Best Canadian Essays 2027: Toronto Launch!

Toronto friends: Join us for the launch of Best Canadian Essays 2027! Guest editor Deborah Dundas will be joined by several contributors for a night of reading and discussion Books will be available for sale and signing from Another Story.

The launch will take place at Another Story on Thursday, November 19 at 7PM.

Grab Best Canadian Essays 2027 here!

Check out all three of this year’s anthologies here.

ABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2027

Selected and introduced by Deborah Dundas, Best Canadian Essays 2027 provides a unique perspective on what constitutes the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in the previous year. Featuring insights on the impact and aftermath of COVID, battling wildfires and understanding Indigenous fire stewardship, a life before and after trauma, condo-buying, dead mall tours, difficult family histories, and more, these fifteen essays negotiate the zone between then and now, and take readers straight to the heart of the matter.

Featuring:

Darcy Ballantyne • Melinda Burns • Claire Cameron • Kathy Chow • Dane de Souza • Hilary Fair • Lana Hall • Tanis MacDonald • Stephen Marche • Soraya Roberts • Lisa Robertson • Julie Salverson • Cora Siré • Moez Surani • Erika Thorkelson

ABOUT DEBORAH DUNDAS

Deborah Dundas is a writer and journalist, has worked as a television producer and is currently an editor at the Toronto Star. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in Canada, the UK and Ireland including Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Canadian Notes and Queries, The Belfast Telegraph and The Sunday Independent. She attended York University for English and Political Science and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College.