team
Canadian Writers Group includes a team of agents and support staff dedicated to pairing writers with the best projects and clients.
The agency was founded in 2009 by writer and editor, Derek Finkle. After graduating from Princeton University, where he studied creative writing under Paul Auster and Russell Banks, he became Toronto Life magazine’s first editorial intern in 1993. He went on to be a regular contributor to Saturday Night magazine and The Globe and Mail, among other publications, before publishing his first book, No Claim to Mercy, in 1998. This examination of the controversial Robert Baltovich murder case, No Claim to Mercy won the Crime Writers’ Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction and was named a Notable Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail.
In 2000, Finkle was hired as a contributing features editor at the weekly Saturday Night. From 2002 to 2007, he was the editor of Toro magazine, which garnered more than sixty National Magazine Award nominations, including Finkle’s gold for investigative reporting in 2005.
Legal counsel is provided by Iain MacKinnon, counsel at Chitiz Pathak LLP and a leading Canadian lawyer in media, entertainment, and intellectual property law.
Canadian Media Guild
Canadian Writers Group supports the advocacy of the Canadian Media Guild in its efforts to collectively raise the profile of writers across Canada.
U.S. Representation
Canadian Writers Group is affiliated with New York-based Kuhn Projects, a full service literary agency representing a wide variety of writers on book projects, magazine articles, and their attendant film or television adaptations. Kuhn provides editorial and packaging services on book and magazine projects from conception to the proposal stage and often through to the finished manuscript.
