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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Markham
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Toronto
Toronto
As a writer, editor, and strategic communicator, I'm passionate about helping people and organizations share their stories to achieve their desired outcomes. As a spiritual director and workshop facilitator, I help individuals and groups learn from their stories to build better…
Toronto
Toronto
Salpi is a writer and illustrator of children's stories. Her primary interest is in raising awareness about the environment and inspiring children to engage with nature.
She received her MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut in 2016. Her thesis…
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Montreal
Montreal
David C.C. Bourgeois was born in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and grew up in Port Perry, for which he played hockey, achieving some notable victories, but suffering many more defeats, in towns up and down Ontario’s Highway 401. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and…
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Fanny Bay
Fanny Bay
Sylvia Bourgeois was born and raised on northern Vancouver Island, in some of British Columbia’s most beautiful small communities. Sylvia now lives in Fanny Bay, and she considers her family, friends, and time outside to be most important to her. If she isn’t working her day job…
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Kitchener
Stouffville
Stouffville
Author and playwright, Jennifer Dance, is passionate about the environment, and justice and equality for all people. Believing that the first step toward reconciliation is understanding our shameful past, Jennifer's mandate is to educate the leaders of tomorrow with stories that…
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Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Lynne Bowen started in Indian Head, Saskatchewan in 1940 and has been moving westward ever since. She was raised in Calgary and Hinton, Alberta. She obtained a Public Health Nursing degree from the University of Alberta, and a Master's degree in western Canadian history from the…
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Regina
Regina
Lives and writes women's fiction with romantic element novels in Regina, SK, and sets her novels in Saskatchewan because she believes it is as exotic as anywhere else in the world. Annette has published six romance novels with Soul Mate Publishing, http://www.soulmatepublishing.…
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Victoria
Victoria
Marilyn Bowering was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Victoria, BC. She received her M.A. Degree from the University of Victoria where she studied with Robin Skelton. A novelist, poet, and librettist, her work has been published and performed internationally. Her first novel, To…
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Welland
Welland
Randi-Lee was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, and from a young age, she had a passion for helping others. She attended Niagara College and graduated at the top of her class from Community and Justice Services after completing her placement at a recovery house for alcohol and…
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Bracebridge and Toronto
Bracebridge and Toronto
J. Patrick Boyer, Q.C. is a veteran of the House of Commons, constitutional lawyer, political science professor, broadcast and print journalist, and author of more than twenty books on politics, ethics, law, history, governance, and biographies. Boyer joined The Writers’ Union…
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Ottawa
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Toronto
Toronto
A Toronto native, Mel Bradshaw (crimenovel.ca) holds degrees in philosophy from Oxford and U of T, where he was film editor of The Varsity. He has taught English in Canada and Southeast Asia and has published crime novels set in three different eras. Victim Impact features biker…
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Victoria, BC
Victoria, BC
Kate Braid was born in Alberta, raised in Montreal, went to school in New Brunswick and now lives in British Columbia. For fifteen years she worked in construction as a labourer, apprentice, journey carpenter, contractor and trades instructor. She then taught creative writing (…
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Stratford
Stratford
Marianne Brandis was born in the Netherlands in 1938, came to Canada at age eight, and lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario. She began writing in her teens, and continued while working as a copywriter at private radio stations and the CBC, and…