Best Canadian Essays 2025

Selected by editor Emily Urquhart, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2023.

Featuring:

Katherine Ashenburg - James Cairns - Mitchell Consky - Michelle Cyca - Sadiqa de Meijer - Ariel Gordon - Lana Hall - Helen Humphreys - Rebecca Kempe - Jiin Kim - Christine Lai - Jessica Moore - Tom Rachman - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Vance Wright

Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared in Longreads, Guernica, and The Walrus and elsewhere, and her first book was shortlisted for the Kobo First Book Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.