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| Marie Wadden | Non-fiction | Where the Pavement Ends, Nitassinan | |
| Fred Wah | b. 1939 | Poet, novelist | Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
| David Walker | 1911–1992 | Novelist | The Pillar, Digby |
| Bronwen Wallace | 1945–1989 | Poet, short stories | Signs of the Former Tenant, People You'd Trust Your Life To |
| Frederick William Wallace | 1886–1958 | Journalist, novelist | Wooden Ships and Iron Men |
| Tom Walmsley | b. 1948 | Novelist, dramatist, poet | Doctor Tin |
| Eric Walters | b. 1957 | Novelist | Safe As Houses, Shattered, Camp X, Run |
| Russell Wangersky | Novelist, short stories, journalist | The Hour of Bad Decisions, Burning Down the House, The Glass Harmonica | |
| Sabrina Ward Harrison | b. 1975 | Spirituality, self-help | Spilling Open |
| Dianne Warren | b. 1950 | Playwright, novelist, short stories | Serpent in the Night Sky, Club Chernobyl, Cool Water |
| David Watmough | b. 1926 | Playwright, novelist, short stories | Names for the Numbered Years, The Time of Kingfishers |
| Sheila Watson | 1909–1998 | Novelist | The Double Hook |
| Alison Wearing | b. 1967 | Travel | Honeymoon in Purdah |
| John Weier | b. 1949 | Poet | Stand the Sacred Tree |
| Steve Weiner | Novelist | The Museum of Love | |
| Merrily Weisbord | Journalist | The Love Queen of Malabar, The Valour and the Horror | |
| Elizabeth Wellburn | Children's literature | Echoes From the Square | |
| Zachariah Wells | b. 1976 | Poet, critic | Fool's Errand, Unsettled |
| Andrew Westoll | Science, travel, non-fiction | The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary | |
| Robert Paul Weston | b. 1975 | Poet, children's literature | Zorgamazoo, Dust City |
| Michael Wex | b. 1954 | Novelist, playwright, non-fiction | The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist |
| Dawud Wharnsby | b. 1972 | Poet, songwriter | Nasheed Artist |
| Thomas Wharton | b. 1963 | Novelist | Salamander, Icefields |
| William Whitehead | b. 1931 | Documentarian, memoirist | Words to Live By |
| Rudy Wiebe | b. 1934 | Novelist | A Discovery of Strangers, The Temptations of Big Bear |
| Eric Wilson | b. 1940 | Mystery | Tom Austen Series (9 books), Liz Austen Series (6 books), Tom and Liz Austen Series (5 books) |
| Ethel Wilson | 1888–1980 | Novelist | Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Window |
| John Wilson | b. 1951 | Historical fiction | Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger, And in the Morning |
| Robert Charles Wilson | b. 1953 | Science fiction writer | Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd. America, Darwinia, Axis, Spin |
| Sheri-D Wilson | Poet, playwright | The Sweet Taste of Lightning, Boy Wonder | |
| Carol Windley | b. 1947 | Novelist, short stories | Home Schooling |
| Rob Winger | Poet | Muybridge's Horse | |
| Kathleen Winter | Novelist, short stories | Boys, Annabel | |
| Michael Winter | b. 1965 | Novelist | This All Happened, The Big Why |
| Kari-Lynn Winters | b. 1969 | Children's author, dramatist | Jeffrey and Sloth, On My Walk |
| Adele Wiseman | 1928–1992 | Novelist, poet | The Sacrifice, Old Women at Play |
| George Woodcock | 1912–1995 | Poet, critic | Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit |
| Susan Wood | 1948–1980 | Author, critic (Canadian literature, science fiction, children's literature), professor, science fiction fan | Energumen; criticism |
| Marnie Woodrow | b. 1969 | Novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
| Lance Woolaver | b. 1948 | Poet, playwright | World Without Shadows, Lord Strange |
| Eric Wright | b. 1929 | Mystery | The Night the Gods Smiled, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
| L. R. Wright | 1939–2001 | Mystery | The Suspect, Strangers Among Us |
| Richard B. Wright | b. 1937 | Novelist | Clara Callan |
| Tim Wynne-Jones | b. 1948 | Novelist, children's literature | Some of the Kinder Planets, Mischief City, The Maestro |
| Tim Wynveen | Novelist | Angel Falls, Sweeter Life, Balloon |
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