Dave Wickenden has spent time in the Canadian Armed Forces before the Fire Service, so is as comfortable with a rocket launcher as a fire hose. He has brought six people back from the dead utilizing CPR and a defibrillator, and has helped rescue people in crisis. He has learnt…

Tini loves to write in the Urban Fantasy and Romantasy genres. She likes to carry her readers off into a world full of emotions, ever so connected with a touch of magic. Her main themes revolve around discovering your inner strength and individual uniqueness. Despite all…

Rudy Wiebe has been professor emeritus, Department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992.

Armin Wiebe was born in Altona, Manitoba and studied at the universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and has been a teacher in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. He was at Vic Enn's farm when the Manitoba Writers' Guild was founded. He has served as writer-in- residence at…

K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning speculative fiction author, speaker, and creative educator known for the celebrated “eco-apocalypse + monsters in dystopian Vancouver” gothic YA Science Fantasy series Threads of Dreams. She writes across fantasy, science fiction,…

Gillian Wigmore is the author of three books of poetry: Orient, published by Brick Books (2013), Dirt of Ages, published by Nightwood Editions (2010), and soft geography, published by Caitlin Press, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay award and won the 2008 Relit award.…

Rebecca Wigod had a thirty-year career in print journalism, finishing with ten years as editor of The Vancouver Sun's books pages. In that position she met and interviewed Julian Barnes, Oliver Sacks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and many other admirable writers. An…

Paula Wild is an award-winning author of seven books including her newest release, Return of the Wolf: Conflict & Coexistence (Douglas & McIntyre 2018), a Silver Medal winner in the Environment/Ecology category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her previous book…

Eli K.P. William is a sci-fi novelist and Japanese literary translator. He is the author of the Jubilee Cycle trilogy, set in a future Tokyo turned financial dystopia, where every action—from blinking to sexual intercourse—is intellectual property owned by corporations that…

Judith Williams was born in Quebec, but has lived more than half of her life in Alberta. With several international awards in children’s non-fiction, she has ten books in print, three of which are translated into Spanish. Besides writing and editing, Judith provides workshops on…

Born in Northern Ontario, E. M. Williams (Elizabeth) has written all her life. Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle is her first published novel. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Arts in…

Ian Williams is a poet and fiction writer. He is the author of Reproduction  (novel, Random House, 2019), Personals (poetry, Freehand, 2012), Not Anyone's Anything (stories, Freehand, 2011), and You Know Who You Are (poems, Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). He is the winner of the…

Rebekkah Williams, RP, MA, Ex.A.T, TIR, is a Registered Psychotherapist, Writer, and Expressive Arts Therapist specializing in the treatment of trauma for over thirty four years.   She is the Co-founder and Director of Nemesis Group, her private practice, contracting with…

Tamara is a captivating storyteller whose talents transcend traditional boundaries. A published author, award-winning playwright, successful painter, and touring musician, she effortlessly weaves her creativity into various art forms. Blending her immense passion for the arts…

David Yerex Williamson is a university instructor and poet living on Treaty 5 territory in Norway House, Manitoba, on the bank of the historic Nelson River. His work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Prairie, Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, Aesthetica, The New Quarterly and…

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…

I write creative nonfiction. My first book, Walking the Bypass: Notes On Place From the Side of the Road is coming out in October 2025. 

Writer: Seen Reading (p: Freehand; e: HarperCollins) WIP: a collection of linked pieces about life as an ageing queer with a focus on housing precarity (Canada Council Explore and Create grant and receipient of a Woodcock Fund grant from the Writers' Trust of Canada) Recent…

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…