Leanne Prain's fourth book The Creative Instigator's Handbook, A DIY Guide to Creating Social Change Through Art was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2022. Leanne co-authored the subversive knitting book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti with knitting…

Katherine Prairie, a geologist and IT professional, stepped away from her career to follow her passion for writing. An avid traveller with an insatiable curiosity, you never know where you’ll find her next! But most days, she’s in Kingston, Canada quietly plotting murder and…

Rick Prashaw has had a diverse career as a journalist at the Vancouver Sun, Catholic priest in Northern Ontario, executive director of a national NGO ion healing justice, (The Church Council on Justice and Corrections in Canada), and political staff to three members of the…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

Kris Purdy is a former musician, singer-songwriter and public broadcaster. She spent a big chunk of her growing up years in Tucson, Arizona but Canada has always been home. She has a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Toronto and received a diploma in jazz…

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.…

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…

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…