Where is the best place in Canada for a writer to live? I have to pick a place for a school assignment and searching the web isn't helping so I thought I'd ask an actual Canadian author. I understand that authors can live anywhere are still flourish in th

It’s really a matter of personal preference. Living outside the major centres means you need to travel for meetings, signings etc but that’s not a weekly occurrence and I’ve never thought “I really wish I lived in the city because it’d cut down on travel.” Major centres, though, do have more resources for writers…like coffee shops :)

Living outside a major centre means that money one makes from writing goes a lot further. That’s important–this isn’t the kind of job where you can expect to sell your first book and get a condo in downtown Toronto/Vancouver. It would mean that you’d be able to quit the day job faster.

There’s also the question of exactly how isolated you are. I’d love to live somewhere like the Yukon, but I’d have to consider how difficult/expensive/time-consuming it would be to get everyplace else for events and on-site research.

One more thing you can consider for your project is noise. Some writers thrive on the chaos of a city. Many prefer the quiet of a small town. I love the near silence of the countryside. It can make a difference, depending on one’s writing style.