Featuring trusted Series editor Christopher Doda and acclaimed guest editor David Layton, this seventh installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, The Best Canadian Essays 2015 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.

Christopher Doda is a poet and an award winning critic living in Toronto. His first book of poems, Among Ruins (2001), was released by Mansfield Press; he is an editor at Exile: The Literary Quarterly.

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Award-winning writer DAVID LAYTON has had short fiction and articles published in literary journals, newspapers and magazines including Exile, The Daily Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveler and The Globe & Mail. He is the author of Motion Sickness, a memoir that was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, and the bestselling novel The Bird Factory. David Layton teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and is the course director for Backstage IFOA, part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors program.

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"Best Canadian Essays 2015 is an engaging survey of creative nonfiction in Canada, highlighting the publication excellence of literary journals . . . Tightrope Books has again presented a stunning collection of Canadian voices with both national and global views." —Lori A. May, Examiner

"Reading Best Canadian Essays 2015 echoes the experience of arriving at a house party brimming with enthused, interesting and impressively articulate guests." —Brett Josef Grubisic, Toronto Star