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Fredericton
Tristis Ward holds a BA in English from Dalhousie University where she attended and adored the University of King’s College. She has non-degree courses at two universities (Dal and UNB) in the areas of Anthropology, English, Computer Science, and Theatre. She is an honours…
Fredericton
Tristis
Ward
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Vancouver
Betsy Warland is the author of a dozen books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. She is most widely known for her best-selling collection of essays, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing. Her most recent book, Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and…
Vancouver
Betsy
Warland
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Vancouver
Andrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. She’s the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (2018) and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music (2015). She’s a writer, broadcaster, podcaster, and creative consultant who also co-hosts…
Vancouver
Andrea
Warner
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Tom Warner was born in Saskatchewan in 1952. He grew up in Prince Albert. He attended, first, the University of Saskatchewan and then the University of Toronto, receiving a BA. In 1971, Tom helped found the first gay community centre in Saskatoon. He moved to Toronto in 1973,…
Tom
Warner
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Ayer's Cliff
Jane Baird Warren's debut middle-grade book, HOW TO BE A GOLDFISH (Scholastic Canada 2022), was featured on "CBC's Middle-Grade Books to Watch For "and on CTV's Your Morning as one of "Eight Canadian Kids’ Books that make Great Gifts." She is represented by Elizabeth Bennett…
Ayer's Cliff
Jane Baird
Warren
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Sylvia Maultash Warsh was born in Germany to Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Toronto where she earned an MA in linguistics from the University of Toronto. Her parents' experiences during the war sparked an interest in history that has influenced Sylvia’s fiction. She has had…
Sylvia
Warsh
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Rhonda Waterfall studied Sales and Marketing at The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Creative Writing at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University where she was mentored by Stephen Osborne. For many years she worked in Ad Agencies…
Rhonda
Waterfall
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Hamilton, Ontario
Kelly Watt’s poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, was a recent finalist in the @poetrymesa and Wild Rising Press poetry contest in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2023) and will be published by Wild Rising Press in June 2024. Her suite of poems Tales of the Faerie #26, was…
Hamilton, Ontario
Kelly
Watt
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Literary criticism and poetry.
Carl
Watts
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Oakville
Joyce Wayne's article "All the Kremlin's Men" was chosen for Best Canadian Essays 2021. It first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada.
"And Change We Did" also appeared in the Literary Review of Canada in January 2022.
Joyce is the author of two novels, The Cook's…
Oakville
Joyce
Wayne
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Kingston/Belleville - will travel
Judy Wearing's Grade 8 teacher wrote in her yearbook, "Words are like leaves. Where they most abound, fruit of sense is seldom found." Judy has been searching for sense ever since. After obtaining a PhD in animal behaviour and another degree in a similar subject - education, she…
Kingston/Belleville - will travel
Judy
Wearing
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Wolfe Island
Margaret Webb is the author of two nonfiction books and also writes feature films, fiction and magazine articles (food, farming, environment, wine, running, adventure travel, profiles, memoir -- okay, just about everything that catches her attention). Her features have appeared…
Wolfe Island
Margaret
Webb
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Barry Webster's first book The Sound of All Flesh (Porcupine’s Quill) won the 2006 Relit Award for short fiction and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize. His short stories have also been shortlisted for the National Magazine Award and the CBC-Quebec Prize. He has…
Barry
Webster
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Toronto
Emily A Weedon is a screenwriter, novelist, creator, coproducer and recovering performing and recording musician who is comfortable writing across mediums and forms from long form drama and romantic comedy, to dark, dystopian literary dramatic prose, satirizing and/or riffing in…
Toronto
Emily
Weedon
Edmonton
Matthew James Weigel is a Dene and Métis poet and artist pursuing an MA in English at the University of Alberta and holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences. He is the designer for Moon Jelly House press and his words and art have been published by people like Arc Poetry Magazine,…
Edmonton
Matthew
Weigel
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Richmond
Lorraine Weir came to oral history from Irish studies early in her career and Indigenous Studies more recently via a bridge from the Law and Society field and papers on the concepts of “time immemorial” and “oral tradition” in the Tŝilhqot’in case. She worked as an expert…
Richmond
Lorraine
Weir
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Toronto
Allan Weiss is a short story writer originally from Montreal and living in Toronto. He is the author of three story collections: Living Room (Boheme 2001), Making the Rounds (Edge 2016), and Telescope (Guernica Editions 2019). Other stories have appeared in various periodicals…
Toronto
Allan
Weiss
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Victoria
Star Weiss is a journalist, author, and educator living in Victoria, BC. Her background also includes a weekly radio column (Not Young, Not Old) and nationwide special (Healing the Heart), both for CBC Radio One. She hosted and produced the cable TV show "Kitchen Culture," (an …
Victoria
Star
Weiss
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Dr. David S. WeissAuthor, President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd., andAffiliate Professor of the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto
For the past 25 years, Dr. David Weiss has been a major contributor to the field of leadership, innovation, and HR…
David
Weiss
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Kamloops
Katie Welch's stories have appeared in EVENT Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Temz Review, The Quarantine Review, Split Lip Magazine and elsewhere. An alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity's Emerging Writers Intensive, Katie has talked to bears…
Kamloops
Katie
Welch
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London
Jennifer Wenn is a trans-identified writer and speaker from London, Ontario who was selected honorary Grand Marshall for London’s 2023 Pride Parade. Her first poetry chapbook, A Song of Milestones, was published by Harmonia Press. Her first full-size collection, Hear Through…
London
Jennifer
Wenn