The Access Copyright Foundation has announced the 27 recipients of the 2024 Professional Development Grants.

This year’s recipients receive a combined total of $60,000. The jurors for this year’s grants were writer and translator Sally Ito, writer and violinist Phoebe Tsang, and author Shoshanna Wingate.

The recipients are:

• Lareina Abbot (Calgary, Alberta)
• AfterWords Literary Festival (Halifax)
• Marta Balcewicz (Toronto)
• Bibi Balkhi (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Adèle Barclay (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Jennifer Batler (Baltimore, Ontario)
• Kate Bird (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Book Publishers Association of Alberta (Edmonton)
• Lauren Carter (Saint Andrews, Manitoba)
• Véronique Darwin (Rossland, B.C.)
• Paola Ferrante (Toronto)
• Stephanie Gibeault (Pickering, Ontario)
• Cornelia Hoogland (Hornby Island, B.C.)
• Alexandra Leslie (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Rayya Liebich (Nelson, B.C.)
• Jennifer LoveGrove (Millbrook, Ontario)
• Sue MacLeod (Halifax)
• Keriann McGoogan (Guelph, Ontario)
• Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (Whites Lake, Nova Scotia)
• Nimbus Publishing Ltd. (Halifax)
• Chelsea O’Byrne (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Owlkids Books (Toronto)
• Alena Papayanis (Toronto)
• The New Quarterly/Wild Writers Literary Festival (Waterloo, Ontario)
• Lesley Trites (Montreal, Quebec)
• Patricia Westerhof (Toronto)
• Kathryn Zdybel (Thornbury, Ontario)