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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mavis Gallant | b. 1922 | short stories | From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks |
| Steven Galloway | novelist | The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
| François-Xavier Garneau | 1809–1866 | historian | History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year |
| Saint-Denys Garneau | 1912–1943 | poet | Regards et jeux dans l'espace |
| Hugh Garner | 1913–1979 | novelist | Cabbagetown |
| Elyse Gasco | b. 1967 | short stories | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? |
| Bill Gaston | b. 1953 | novelist, short stories | The Order of Good Cheer, Mount Appetite |
| Pauline Gedge | b. 1945 | novelist | Stargate, House of Illusions |
| Camilla Gibb | b. 1968 | novelist | Sweetness in the Belly |
| John Murray Gibbon | 1875–1952 | non-fiction novelist | Canadian Mosaic |
| Graeme Gibson | b. 1934 | novelist | Five Legs, Perpetual Motion |
| Margaret Gibson | 1948–2006 | novelist, short story writer | The Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams |
| William Gibson | b. 1948 | science fiction | Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties |
| Sky Gilbert | b. 1952 | playwright | Brother Dumb, Drag Queens in Outer Space |
| Charlotte Gill | short stories, non-fiction | Ladykiller, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | |
| John Patrick Gillese | 1926–1999 | novelist, short stories | Kirby's Gander |
| David Gilmour | b. 1949 | novelist | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
| Joanna Glass | b. 1936 | playwright | If We Are Women, Trying |
| John Glassco | 1909–1981 | poet, translator, memoirist | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
| Susan Glickman | b. 1953 | poet, novelist, critic | The Violin Lover, The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape |
| Douglas Glover | b. 1948 | novelist | Elle, The Life and Times of Captain N |
| Jacques Godbout | b. 1933 | novelist | Salut Galarneau!, Une histoire américaine |
| Dave Godfrey | b. 1938 | novelist | The New Ancestors |
| Glenda Goertzen | b. 1967 | novelist | The Prairie Dogs |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1794–1861 | poet | The Rising Village |
| Gabriella Goliger | novelist, short stories | Song of Ascent, Girl Unwrapped | |
| Leona Gom | b. 1946 | novelist, mystery, poet | Housebroken, Freeze Frame |
| Phyllis Gotlieb | b. 1926 | poet, science fiction | A Judgement of Dragons |
| Sondra Gotlieb | b. 1936 | newspaper columnist | True Confections |
| Hiromi Goto | b. 1966 | science fiction | Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child |
| John Gould | short stories | Kilter: 55 Fictions | |
| George R. D. Goulet | b. 1933 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
| Terry Goulet | b. 1934 | historian | The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied (Researcher), The Métis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet: Canada's Premier Pioneers, The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony |
| Katherine Govier | b. 1948 | novelist | Angel Walk, The Truth Teller |
| Lee Gowan | b. 1961 | novelist | Make Believe Love, The Last Cowboy |
| Barbara Gowdy | b. 1950 | novelist, short stories | The Romantic, The White Bone |
| Gwethalyn Graham | 1913–1965 | novelist | Earth and High Heaven |
| Neile Graham | b. 1958 | poet | Spells for Clear Vision, Blood Memory |
| Martin Allerdale Grainger | 1874–1941 | novelist, journalist | Woodsmen of the West |
| Jack Granatstein | b. 1939 | historian | |
| George Grant | 1918–1988 | historian, philosopher | Lament for a Nation |
| Jessica Grant | novelist, short stories | Come, Thou Tortoise | |
| Charlotte Gray | b. 1948 | novelist, non-fiction | Mrs. King |
| Ed Greenwood | b. 1959 | fantasy | Forgotten Realms |
| Grey Owl | 1888–1938 | conservationist | Grey Owl and the Beaver, City of the Ancients |
| Claude-Henri Grignon | 1894–1976 | novelist, satirist | Un Homme et son péché |
| Frederick Phillip Grove | 1879–1948 | novelist | Settlers of the Marsh, Consider Her Ways |
| Brett Josef Grubisic | novelist, critic | The Age of Cities | |
| Germaine Guèvremont | 1893–1968 | novelist, short stories | Le Survenant, Marie-Didace |
| Genni Gunn | b. 1949 | novelist, poet | Tracing Iris, Faceless |
| Kristjana Gunnars | b. 1948 | poet, novelist | Settlement Poems, One-Eyed Moon Maps |
| Ralph Gustafson | 1909–1995 | poet | Fire on Stone |
| Sandra Gwyn | 1935–2000 | journalist | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
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