Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving and I'm ending the week with a trip to Quebec, so let's take a moment to appreciate our favorite Canadian women writers. I am obviously a huge Margaret Atwood fan, counting her in the Bookhive Pantheon, and I have a post on Alice Munro coming up later this week.

But what about some more contemporary/younger/lesser-known Canadian authors? Check out this nice round-up from CBC.

This list from National Post includes the usual suspects (AM and MA) along with men, but it has a different perspective as it lists authors to be read by Canadian students. It skews a bit younger and has a few I'd never heard of before, along with a very old-school pick, L.M. Montgomery.