Jillian is a writer and editor based in Victoria, BC. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Journal, the Fish anthology, the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology, subTERRAIN Magazine, Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Writer'sDigest.com. Her creative non-…

Jacques Shore is a partner in the international law firm of Gowling WLG. Mr. Shore is a published author and artist. His published works include articles on the law and public policy, op-eds, as well as three children’s books, and an illustrated book of short stories. Mr. Shore…

My name is Craig Shreve. I was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad, the system of routes and safe houses…

Meenal Shrivastava lives as an uninvited guest in the unceded Coast Salish territory, on an (almost) acreage in North Saanich, BC. She is the author of a non-fiction novel, co-editor of a genre-bending anthology, and the writer of sundry academic publications as a professor of…

Barbara Sibbald recently published her fourth novel, Almost English (Bayeux Arts), which was edited and is endorsed by the Canadian best-selling author Diane Schoemperlen. Almost English chronicles a Eurasian man's struggle to overcome British racism in the North-West Frontier…

Felicity Sidnell Reid’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies and on line journals. Her historical novel, Alone: A Winter in the Woods (Hidden Brook Press) set 1796 takes place on the shores of Presqu’ile bay. She is a contributor to and one of the…

Sandra began her writing career in 2018, penning what had been intended as a romance movie script idea, and ending up with a novel instead. She is recognized predominantly for her steamy and erotic romance books, but she is not wholly exclusive to romance.Working as an…

Maggie Siggins is a journalist, author of nine books, and a television producer/writer. Based in Regina, she is currently the vice-president, creative of 4 Square Productions, an innovative independent production house. She has written/produced over twenty documentaries as well…

Josée Sigouin is French Canadian and lives in Toronto/Tkaronto with her Chinese Canadian husband and their two sons. Until 2021, she worked at the University of Toronto, where she specialized in telling stories with numbers. Nearing retirement, she began to tell…

 Publications:The Seaside Café Metropolis, Cormorant Books, 2025Buying on Time Again, Stonehewer Books, 2025The Death of Tony, nonfiction, Stonehewer Books, 2024Some Unfinished Business, Cormorant Books, 2023Provisionally Yours, Biblioasis, 2019.The Barefoot Bingo Caller.…

National bestselling author Eve Silver writes for both adults and teens. She has been praised for her “edgy, steamy, action-packed” books, darkly sexy heroes and take-charge heroines. Eve's work won the OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award (2015), was shortlisted for the…

Erin Silver is a freelance writer and an award-winning children’s author of more than 30 books, many of which have been translated into other languages, including French, Spanish and Korean. Her books for children include Proud to Play: Canadian LGBTQ+ Athletes Who Made History…

Monica Silvie practiced law for over fifteen years before returning to her earliest passion, writing for children. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Monica has an Advanced…

Bren Simmers is the author of four books of poetry, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn, 2010). Her first…

Marjorie Simmins is the author of four non-fiction books: Coastal Lives (2014); Year of the Horse (2016); Memoir: Conversations and Craft (2020); and Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable (2021). Simmins began her career as a freelance journalist…

Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a Japanese Canadian writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…

Anne Simpson lives in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia), where she writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Four of her ten books have been Globe & Mail Best Books. She has been awarded the Griffin Prize for poetry and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for fiction.…