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| Name | Lifetime | Genre | Notable works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawi Hage | b. 1964 | novelist | De Niro's Game, Cockroach |
| Joan Haggerty | |||
| Roderick Haig-Brown | b. 1941 | ||
| Arthur Hailey | 1920–2004 | novelist | Hotel, Airport |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton | The Clockmaker | ||
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | b. 1954 | Body Rain, July Nights, Hunger | |
| Lyn Hancock | b. 1938 | There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag, There's a Raccoon in my Parka, Tabasco: The Saucy Raccoon | |
| Alexander Harris | 1805–1874 | novelist | Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian backwoods |
| Claire Harris | b. 1937 | ||
| Marjorie Harris | |||
| Keith Harrison | b. 1945 | novelist | Eyemouth, Furry Creek |
| Jill Hartman | |||
| Kristen den Hartog | |||
| Kenneth J. Harvey | b. 1962 | novelist | Directions for an Opened Body, Brud, Blackstrap Hawco |
| Elisabeth Harvor | b. 1936 | novelist, poet | Let Me Be the One, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart |
| Barbara Haworth-Attard | b. 1953 | ||
| Elizabeth Hay | b. 1951 | novelist, non-fiction | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, The Only Snow in Havana |
| Elliott Hayes | 1956–1994 | ||
| Matthew Hays | film critic, journalist | The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers | |
| Charles Heavysege | 1816–1876 | poet | Saul |
| Anne Hébert | Kamouraska | ||
| Steven Heighton | novelist, poet | The Shadow Boxer | |
| William C. Heine | novelist, newspaper editor | The Last Canadian | |
| Michael Helm | novelist, editor | The Projectionist, In the Place of Last Things | |
| David Helwig | |||
| Maggie Helwig | |||
| Louis Hémon | 1880–1913 | novelist, journalist | Maria Chapdelaine |
| Rebecca Hendry | novelist, short stories, magazine articles | Grace River | |
| John Herbert | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
| Sheila Heti | novelist, short stories | Ticknor | |
| Paul Hiebert | 1892–1987 | novelist, humorist | Sarah Binks |
| Tomson Highway | b. 1951 | playwright, novelist | Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| Lawrence Hill | novelist, memoirist | Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes | |
| Robert Hilles | b. 1951 | ||
| Jack Hodgins | b. 1938 | ||
| Clive Holden | poet | Trains of Winnipeg | |
| Pauline Holdstock | |||
| Greg Hollingshead | b. 1947 | novelist, short stories | The Roaring Girl, The Healer |
| Margaret Lindsay Holton (aka Ali-Janna Whyte) |
b. 1955 | novelist, short stories, poet, social history | Economic Sex, Spirit of Toronto: 1834–1984, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, On Top of Mount Nemo, Bush Chord: New Poems & Pinhole Photographs |
| Hugh Hood | 1928–2000 | novelist | The New Age |
| Cornelia Hoogland | b. 1952 | ||
| Nalo Hopkinson | b. 1960 | science fiction, fantasy | Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads |
| Harold Horwood | b. 1923 | ||
| Tanya Huff | fantasy | ||
| Matt Hughes | |||
| Helen Humphreys | b. 1961 | novelist | Afterimage, The Lost Garden |
| Aislinn Hunter | |||
| Bruce Hunter | |||
| Catherine Hunter | |||
| Maureen Hunter | |||
| Nancy Huston | b. 1953 | novelist, translator | |
| Hazel Hutchins | |||
| Bruce Hutchison | |||
| Joel Thomas Hynes | b. 1976 | novelist, playwright, screenwriter | Down to the Dirt, Right Away Monday |
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