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- Stephen Cain (born 1970), poet and academic
- Alison Calder, poet and academic
- Barry Callaghan (born 1937), author and poet; son of the author Morley Callaghan
- Jason Camlot (born 1966), poet, scholar and songwriter
- Anne Cameron (born 1938), novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer
- George Frederick Cameron (24 Sept. 1854 – 17 Sept. 1885), poet, lawyer, and journalist
- Wilfred Campbell (1858–1918), poet and Anglican clergyman
- Natalee Caple (born 1970), novelist and poet
- Paul Cargnello(born 1979), Montreal poet, lyricist
- Bliss Carman (1861–1929), poet and critic
- Anne Carson (born 1950), poet, essayist, translator, and academic
- William Chapman (1850–1917), poet, journalist and bureaucrat
- Jean Charbonneau (1875–1960), francophone poet who was the primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
- Herménégilde Chiasson (born 1946), Acadian poet, playwright, journalist, academic and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
- Robert Choquette (1905–1991), novelist, poet and, briefly, (1968–1970) a diplomat
- Lesley Choyce (born 1951), novelist, writer, children's book writer, poet, and academic who founded Pottersfield Press and hosts the television program "Choyce Words" and "Off the Page"; born in the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1979
- Margaret Christakos (born 1962), poet and university writing teacher
- Evie Christie (born 1979)
- Dave Clark, musician who published a book of poetry
- George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), poet and playwright.
- Wayne Clifford (born 1944)
- Fred Cogswell (1917–2004)
- Leonard Cohen (1934), singer-songwriter, musician, published poet and novelist
- Matt Cohen, 1942–1999), writer and poet
- Don Coles (born 1928), poet, author and academic
- John Robert Colombo (born 1936), poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist
- Anne Compton (born 1947), poet, critic, and anthologist
- Wayde Compton (born 1972), poet, writer, turntable-based "sound poetry" performer, academic who co-founded Commodore Books, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada
- Jan Conn (born 1952), geneticist and poet living in the United States
- Karen Connelly (born 1969), writer and poet
- Kevin Connolly
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944), poet and academic
- Afua Cooper, Jamaican-born historian and dub poet
- Paulo da Costa Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator
- Dani Couture (born 1978), poet, essayist, critic and journalist
- Thomas Cowherd (1817–1907), tinsmith and poet
- Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), poet, novelist and short-story writer
- Octave Crémazie(1827–1879), francophone poet who has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse
- Lynn Crosbie (born 1963), poet and novelist
- Lorna Crozier began writing under the name "Lorna Uher" (born 1948)
- Michael Crummey (born 1965), poet and writer.
- Julie Crysler, journalist and poet
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