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Author of 16 books, poetry and prose. Six CDs of music, some for adults some for little kids, some for young adults. 30 years experience teaching writing to all ages. CBC topical songwriter. Contributions to Sesame Street. Wrote #1 hit: Song Instead of a Kiss for Alannah Myles.…
Toronto
Toronto
I am a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction and sometimes fiction, as well as scholarship on trauma and literature. My creative non-fiction project, Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide, with Gordon Hill Press, has just been published. Several essays from this collection…
Napanee
Napanee
Sherry Pringle is a Napanee, On native She has two published non-fiction, history books, both detailing personal accounts of individuals in WWII. Pringle has interviewed, researched and recorded  accounts of contributions, tales of heroism and incarceration from 100 Canadian men…
Colborne
Colborne
Marie Prins's mid-grade children's novel The Girl From the Attic was published by Common Deer Press in October 2020. It won silver in their 2019 Uncommon Quest competition. Her memoir pieces and poetry are found in the Spirit of the Hills Writers' anthologies Hill Spirits II,…
Toronto
Toronto
Dawn Promislow's novel, Wan, was published by Freehand Books in 2022 and has been critically acclaimed. It was short-listed for the Fred Kerner Book Award 2023, was a Best Fiction of 2022 in The Miramichi Reader, and was on CBC Books's 2022 Summer and Holiday lists for…
Stratford
Stratford
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1953. Graduated from Aberdeen University, then came to Canada to do a master’s degree at Queen’s University, Kingston. Spent 14 years as a writer and editor at the Kingston Whig-Standard during that paper's “golden age” under editor Neil Reynolds,…
Peterborough
Peterborough
Adelle Purdham is a writer, speaker and parent disability advocate. She holds a French literature degree from Western University and is a certified teacher. She earned her graduate certificate from Humber College’s Creative Writing by Correspondence Program where she had the…
Pickering
Pickering
Rick Pyves is a published author, avid historian and genealogist and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. Rick is a graduate of Concordia (Sir George Williams) University and McGill University and holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Business Administration in Marketing.…
Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Lily Quan is the author of the Middle Grade book adaptation of Disney and Pixar's movie, Turning Red. She is also an editor and literary programmer, and currently makes her home on beautiful Vancouver Island. Lily is represented by Jennifer Chen Tran of Folio Literary…
Meredith Quartermain was born in Toronto, grew up in the Kootenays, BC, and now lives in Vancouver. She has degrees in English and Law from UBC. She has taught English at UBC and Capilano College, and has enjoyed leading writing workshops at TIA House, Naropa Summer Writing…
Thanks to the capable Erín Moure and her Zat-So Productions, my memoir Growing Dumb: An Autobiography of an English Education is now in print. It's a gentle investigation of perplexity in a boys' world in WW II, the story of a boy uprooted from conventional life and stuck in a…
Smiths Falls
Smiths Falls
Marina Quattrocchi (prononced qua-trow-chee) grew up in Smiths Falls, Ontario, a beautiful town on Rideau Lake, in the Ottawa Valley. Here began the nightly dreaming adventures that became the source of her first book. Marina is a former photojournalist with a Bachelor of…
Halifax
Halifax
Anna Quon, a poet and novelist living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), likes to make paintings and short animated films of her poems. Mixed-race, middle-aged and Mad,  Anna has facilitated writing and creative arts workshops for people with lived experience of mental health diagnoses/…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Kelley is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer. She studied in Chicago, earning a Master of Divinity at Chicago Theological Seminary and a Master of Arts at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Later she completed a Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of Ottawa…
Grimsby
Grimsby
Waheed Rabbani was born in India, near Delhi, and was introduced to Victorian and other English novels, at a very young age, in his father's library. Most of the large number of volumes, had been purchased by his father at 'garage sales' held, by departing British civil service…
Toronto
Toronto
Barbara Radecki started her career as an actor, and is probably best known for voicing Sailor Neptune in the original English dub of the popular Sailor Moon series. She has transitioned to writing, with a focus on full-length fiction and screenplays. Her screenplay, Modern…
Seeley's Bay
Toronto
Toronto
Bahram Rahman was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up during the civil war and the Taliban regime. He came to Canada as a refugee in 2012, and today is a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Health in Ontario. Bahram’s first picture book, Governor General’s Literary…