Member Directory
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Dave Williamson was born in Winnipeg, and studied at the University of Manitoba. He was the advertising manager of The Bay (Saskatoon), before joining Red River Community College in Winnipeg as an instructor in advertising, communications and creative writing. He founded the…
Halifax
Toronto
Toronto
K. R. Wilson is a Toronto-area writer. His novel An Idea About my Dead Uncle won the inaugural Guernica Prize in 2018, and his novel Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia was long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal. His work has also appeared in The Temz Review, The…
Eden Mills (Near Guelph)
Eden Mills (Near Guelph)
Janet Wilson is an award winning author of non-fiction and creative non-fiction books for children. She has illustrated over fifty picture books in her thirty-five year career. She welcomes the opportunity to give inspirational talks on the power of young activists.
Toronto
Toronto
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a Toronto based writer. Her debut novel, Small Beauty, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received and Honourable Mention in the 2016 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Her short fiction and poetry has…
Kentville
Kentville
David A. Wimsett's works include newspaper and magazine articles, blogs, corporate writing, short stories and novels that range from historical fiction to fantasy and science fiction. He is also a film maker, photographer and composer.
The stories he writes follow characters as…
TECUMSEH
Nanaimo
Hamilton
Hamilton
Nicola Winstanley is the author of five picture books, including How To Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps, nominated for the Governor General's Award in 2019, and Cinnamon Baby, shortlisted for the TD Picture Book Award and recipient of an honor prize for the Ezra Jack…
VAncouver
Squamish
Toronto
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, and her second novel, Hair for Men was named a Book of the Year by Indigo, the Globe and Mail and CBC…
St. Catharines
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…
Annapolis Royal
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…
Collingwood
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…
Vancouver
Waterloo
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…
Edmonton
Vancouver
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