Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
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Hamilton
Hamilton
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 29 books including Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime) His national bestselling novel…
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Hamilton
London
London
Madeline Bassnett's first full-length collection, Under the Gamma Camera, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019, and was longlisted for the Royal City Literary Arts Society Annual Fred Cogswell Award in 2020. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Pilgrimage (Baseline, 2016…
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Montreal
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Airdrie
Airdrie
Diane Bator writes mystery, fantasy, and working on some YA novels. She has been a part of many anthologies and is the host of Escape With a Writer, a blog she uses to promote fellow authors of all genres. Diane is also an editor and Book Coach, as well as mentor to many authors.
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Halifax
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Sudbury
Sudbury
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. She is an alumna of Laurentian University (Sudbury, ON, Canada) and Nipissing University (North Bay, ON, Canada). During her teaching career in Sudbury, she…
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Victoria
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Kingston
Kingston
Jean Rae Baxter (née Fox) was born in Toronto but grew up in Hamilton. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and a B.Ed degree from Queen’s. She is an ex-copywriter and ex-teacher. Married to a Queen’s University English professor, she lived for…
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Toronto
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Surrey
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Simcoe
Simcoe
David Richard Beasley lives in Simcoe Ontario. Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. He has written…
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Oshawa
Oshawa
Anne Marie who often writes under her maiden name, is a native of the province of New Brunswick . After graduating from Teachers' College, she attended UNB before graduating from Trent University with a degree in Indigenous Studies.
Creative writing courses include Creative…
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Hamilton
Hamilton
Raymond Beauchemin is the author of two traditionally published works of fiction, the novel "Everything I Own" (Toronto: Guernica 2011) and the novella collection "The Emptiest Quarter" (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2023). He is a cookbook author ("Salut: The Quebec…
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Banff
Banff
Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published…
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Cookshire-Eaton
Cookshire-Eaton
Laetitia Beaumel is a musician, author, publisher and herbalist. Arrived from France in 2007, she has been involved for fifteen years in the artistic landscape of Quebec and Chaudière-Appalaches by participating in several collective literary projects (Migration, Cosmogonie des…
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Toronto
Toronto
Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults. A Porcupine in a Pine Tree was the #1 Canadian National Bestseller and received the Libris Picture Book of the Year Award from the C.B.A; the sequel, Dashing through the Snow, was also…
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Joliette
Dartmouth
Dartmouth
While he has worked as a paramedic and as a captain with the fire service, Sean Paul Bedell has been writing and publishing for more than 30 years. He lives in Dartmouth with his wife Lisa, and Somewhere There’s Music is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @seanpaulbedell or…
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OTTAWA