Member Directory
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Saskatoon
Saskatoon
I am a wildlife veterinarian, author and storyteller. I have published 6 non-fiction books about my career and the animals I have worked with in Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Mongolia. They species include giraffe (my first case), rhinos, elephants, lions, hippo, a…
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Clarksburg
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Toronto
Toronto
Solomon Hailemariam is a writer, translator, journalist, academic and was the founder and president of PEN Ethiopia. Solomon has attended his higher education in Addis Ababa University, University of South Africa, The Venice Academy of Human Rights in Venice, Italy, and Åbo…
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Elora
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Hornby Island, BC
Hornby Island, BC
Amanda Hale began her writing career as an immigrant in 1970s Montréal. She has published four novels, two poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories set in the village of Baracoa, Cuba. Her work has appeared in many Canadian & US literary magazines. She won the…
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PERTH
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Saint John
Saint John
Phil Halton is a veteran and author of "Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred-Year War" and two novels, "Every Arm Outstretched" and "This Shall Be a House of Peace." His latest work is the satirical graphic novel, "The Sandbox." His writing has appeared in the Globe and…
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Edmonton
Edmonton
While I'm currently focusing my writing energies on a historical novel, for the past decade my publishing credits have been in non-fiction. I have a particular interest in profiles and creative non-fiction, and my writing about urban culture, politics and design has appeared in…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Terrie Hamazaki (she/her) holds a Master of Arts Degree in Creative and Critical Writing (UK). She performed her plays at the Fringe and Women in View Performing Arts Festivals. Her writing has appeared in Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Caitlin Press…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Jane Silcott’s first collection of essays, Everything Rustles, published with Anvil Press, was a finalist in the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize in the 2014 BC Book Prizes. She is co-editor, with Fiona Tinwei Lam, of the anthology Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs,…
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Komoka
Fort Smith
Fort Smith
Patti-Kay Hamilton writes, paddles, skis,coaches and hunts on the lands of the NWT Metis Nation and Salt River First Nations. Home is Fort Smith in the heart of Wood Buffalo National Park where the Slave River rapids rumble even in the winter and whooping cranes soar overhead in…
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Garden Bay
Garden Bay
Jo Hammond.Born a stone’s throw from the English Channel in Bognor Regis, Jo Hammond’s first job was as a dairy farmer. After studying Music and Science in a Liverpool teacher’s college, she became a secondary and elementary school teacher, also a member of the Royal Liverpool…
Toronto
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Powell River
Powell River
Coming from generations of English blue water sailors, Heather Harbord arrived in Canada in 1963. She lived in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia before returning to British Columbia in 1977. She now makes her home in Powell River, B.C. in a house overlooking three…
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Port Stanley
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Hamilton
Hamilton
Liz Harmer is Strange Loops (2023) and The Amateurs (2018), both released with Knopf Canada. The Amateurs was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2019. Also in 2019, she was the runner-up in the The Image/Mitchell Prize for a suite of poems. In 2018, her story…
Kelowna
Montreal
Montreal
It was that special year: 1967 when the city of Montreal exploded onto the world’s stage and hosted Expo ‘67. My high school graduation from Westover School happened at that same time. My parents and I drove from Connecticut to Montreal stopping along the way at the admissions…