Best Canadian Essays 2025

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

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Praise for the Best Canadian Series

The wide range of writers, forms and themes represented here make it a great jumping-off point for readers who might be interested in Canadian poetry but are unsure about where to start.
Globe and Mail

"One of the best things about the end of the year is having a chance to look back. The three Best Canadian volumes ... are a snapshot of some of the finest in Canadian writing this year."
Robert J. Wiersema, Toronto Star

A superb collection of national thinkers, crackling with insight on the issues of the age.
Chatelaine

The arrival, late in the fall each year, of [this] collection is always cause for fanfare.
Quill & Quire

Each of the authors in Best Canadian Essays 2024 offers a particular style and perspective, but the essays work together to provide a picture of some of the issues Canadians have been facing. Many readers are likely to find something to interest them in this short collection of essays.
Winnipeg Free Press

Author Bio

Emily Urquhartis a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared inLongreads,Guernica, andThe Walrusand 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 MagazineandQuill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor forThe New Quarterlyand lives in Kitchener, Ontario.