The eleventh installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, Best Canadian Essays 2019 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.

Emily Donaldson's profile page

Emily Donaldson is an editor, writer, and book critic whose writing and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Walrus, Maclean’s, and Quill & Quire. Her work has been nominated for National Magazine Awards and for a Governor General’s Award. In 2016, she became the first female editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, Canada’s oldest magazine of literary criticism, for which she is also a long-time contributor. Born and raised in Montreal, she currently lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.

Praise for Best Canadian Essays

“Fascinating, provocative, sobering and painful… an abundance of artfully expressed ideas.” —Toronto Star