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Squamish
Wendy Monica Winter, M.Ed., is an award-winning children's book author who lives with her family where the mountains meet the sea on the west coast of Canada. Wendy enjoys bouncing around like Mamma Kangaroo. In fact, you can spot her on the local mountains bouncing on her…
Squamish
Wendy
Winter
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St. Catharines
Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters is an award-winning children’s author, playwright, performer, and academic scholar. Thirty-three of her picture or poetry books have been published or are in press. An experienced teacher of writing, Kari-Lynn has worked with students across Canada and the…
St. Catharines
Kari-Lynn
Winters
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Toronto
Michelle Winters is a writer, painter, and translator born and raised in Saint John, NB. Her debut novel, I Am a Truck, was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the translator of Daniil and Vanya, and Kissing the Undertow (coming June 2024) by Marie-Hélène…
Toronto
Michelle
Winters
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Annapolis Royal
David Wiseman lived in the UK for most of his life, but is now a resident of Nova Scotia. During his time in Canada he has, among other things, enjoyed running an art gallery and occasionally appearing as a background actor in movies. He writes long and short fiction, is an…
Annapolis Royal
David
Wiseman
Collingwood
Susan Wismerwww.susanwismer.comsusanwismer@gmail.com(she/her)
Writing as a means of engaging with what matters has been important to me ever since I first learned to print my name. I am privileged at this time in my life to be able to turn to poetry and its particular power to…
Collingwood
Susan
Wismer
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Vancouver
PAM WITHERS is an award-winning, best-selling author of 23 young-adult sports and adventure novels – particularly popular with MG/YA boys. A former journalist and editor who was also an outdoor guide, she's riveting as a speaker. Her next YA novel is due out fall of 2024. (…
Vancouver
Pam
Withers
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Waterloo
Lori Wolf-Heffner is the author of the young adult series Between Worlds and the sweet romance series Love on Belmont. She was an inaugural member of the Canadian National Tap Team, wrote and submitted a Star Trek novel in her teens (it was rejected—she needed an agent), and…
Waterloo
Lori
Wolf-Heffner
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A versatile writer and engaging speaker.
Writes for business, lifestyle, arts and culture, and alumni publications/organizations.
Author of 5 non-fiction books focused on London regional history and heritage.
Kym
Wolfe
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Elana Wolff grew up and was educated in Toronto. She has taught English as a Second Language at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is currently teaching ESL at the York University English Language Institute. Her first collection of poetry, Birdheart, was published by…
Elana
Wolff
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Edmonton
Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across multiple genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke series and Crescent City short stories. An author, mentor, speaker, and community organizer, Sandra publishes as an indie author as well as with traditional publishers.
Her…
Edmonton
Sandra SG
Wong
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CALGARY
Born and raised in China, Sherry Wong moved to Canada in the late 80s to pursue her master’s degree. Since 2012, she wrote under both her real name and a pen name, Tong Ge, and have published poems, prose, and short stories (both in English and in Chinese) in the North America,…
CALGARY
Sherry
Wong
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Vancouver
Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, where she attends to questions of water justice, decolonization, ecology and climate justice. Co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water with Dorothy Christian, Wong is the…
Vancouver
Rita
Wong
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Toronto
Heather J. Wood was born and raised in Montreal and now makes her home in Toronto. She is the author of the coming of age novel Fortune Cookie, and of Roll With It, a teen-oriented novel about roller derby. She is also the World Fantasy Award nominated editor of the Gods, Memes…
Toronto
Heather
Wood
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Westville
TP Wood graduated from McMaster University with an Honours Degree in English and History. He has been editor of three weekly newspapers, and two corporate publications, has written executive speeches, screenplays, and thirty years of personal journals. He is an active member of…
Westville
TP
Wood
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Shelley Wood is a novelist, medical journalist, and editor. Her second novel, The Leap Year Gene will be published in August 2024 by HarperCollins Canada, and as The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley in the United States, by Union Square Press. Her debut novel, The Quintland…
Shelley
Wood
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Whistler
Rebecca is an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Whistler, British Columbia. Her short fiction has been published in Room, The Antigonish Review and Pique Newsmagazine. She has made over 35 short films, which have broadcast on TV and been screened at festivals around…
Whistler
Rebecca
Wood Barrett
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Iqaluit
Patrick Woodcock is the author of 10 books of poetry and countless reviews. His work has been translated and published in 14 languages. Since travel is so essential to his work, Mr. Woodcock has lived and worked in such diverse countries as Iceland, Poland, Russia, Bosnia and…
Iqaluit
Patrick
Woodcock
Jane Woods was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She grew up in Montreal and is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada. She has worked extensively as a voice actor and a translator. She lives in Toronto. She is the author of the novels: 'The Walking Tanteek' (2014) and '…
Jane
Woods
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New Denver
I am a writer, and former publishers' rep, bookseller, managing editor, publicist, creative writing teacher and most recently, a lighthouse keeper formerly based on the Lennard Island Lightstation near Tofino, BC from 2008-2021. I have written nine books for adults and children…
New Denver
Caroline
Woodward
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Cobourg
Writer, retired teacher, and amateur dancer with MMM (Margaret Morris Method). Donna is available to visit libraries, bookstores and book clubs to discuss her novels, Isadora's Dance and The Age of Privilege, her latest novel. Her audience at the book launches showed plenty of…
Cobourg
Donna
Wootton
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Ronald Wright was born in England to a Canadian father and an English mother, and now lives in British Columbia. A novelist, historian and essayist, he has won awards in all three genres, and is published around the world in more than a dozen languages. Before becoming a writer…
Ronald
Wright
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Toronto
Toronto-born writer/poet Megan Wykes (formerly Mueller) worked as a senior editor at Oxford University Press and Harcourt Brace for many years, and wrote freelance, including a stint at ARTNews magazine (New York). Her writing has also appeared in numerous Canadian arts and…
Toronto
Megan
Wykes
Toronto, ON
I´m not a dead white guy. I´m a living old white female writer, a prolific unknown, have been for years. I love plays best but I have a large collection of OOP books, mostly first editions, with one or two exceptions, the major one being Beginnings: A Book for Widows which…
Toronto, ON
Betty Jane
Wylie
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When he was three, Tim ran away from home with a tea cozy on his head. That was in Cheshire, England. He ended up in Kitimat, B.C. He is not sure if these incidents are connected, but he believes fervently that if one is going to become a writer one should keep one's head warm.…
Tim
Wynne-Jones
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