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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Mississauga and Toronto
Mississauga and Toronto
Peter Jailall, retired teacher, storyteller and poet has read his work in schools, libraries and universities across Canada and in the Caribbean. An avid supporter of human rights and social justice, he expresses his compassion and passion for human values through poetry and…
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Ottawa
Ottawa
Sheila James is an award winning author and videographer, produced playwright and has performed, composed and recorded original music for stage, screen and broadcast. Her work explores the “other” or “outsider” as she brings a critical anti-racist, feminist and queer perspective…
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Vancouver
Vancouver
Franke James is an activist, artist and author of four books. She’s fought City Hall to build a green driveway (and won); been blacklisted by the Canadian Government for her climate change art—and turned their silencing into international news. Her latest book, Freeing Teresa: A…
Dieppe
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Calgary
Calgary
I am a writer and freelance editor and writer based out of Treaty 7 territory (Calgary, AB) with experience in proofreading, copyediting, and line/content editing. I specialize in substantive/developmental editing in speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, academic essays, and…
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Toronto
Toronto
Mary Janigan is a journalist who has written extensively about Canadian public policy, including politics and economics, for the Toronto Star, Maclean’s and the Globe and Mail. She won the prestigious Hyman Solomon Award for policy analysis, and the National Newspaper Award for…
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Orangeville
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Fredericton, NB
Fredericton, NB
Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list…
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Calgary
Calgary
Aldona Jaworska was born and raised in Poland and came to Canada as a refugee in 1990.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Canadian Studies and Communication and Culture (2012, University of Calgary) and a Master’s of Arts degree in Communication and Culture (2014, U of C).…
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Toronto
Toronto
Certified book ghostwriter, book editor working with aspiring nonfiction authors to develop their ideas into viable manuscripts. • Manuscript assessment and recommendations • Ghostwriting, line editing • Author coaching • Book proposals • Book Selling Plans Specialties:…
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Midland
Midland
Prior to turning to writing full time in 2009, Peter spent his career in corporate communications in Toronto running agencies handling marketing, advertising, branding, public relations and production of multimedia content, including websites and social media elements. Clients…
Toronto
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Toronto
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Yellowknife
Yellowknife
Cathy Jewison is a short story writer living in Yellowknife, NWT. A collection of her Yellowknife stories, The Ugly Truck and Dog Contest and Other Tales of Northern Life, was published by Borealis Press of Ottawa in 2009. Cathy has worked as a newspaper reporter, copy editor,…
Windsor & Toronto
Windsor & Toronto
Karl Jirgens was born in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus (U. Windsor). He served as editor/publisher of Rampike magazine (1979-2016). The Rampike digital archive is free to the public c/o U Windsor's Leddy Library (all copyrights remain with contributors); https://scholar.…
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Sudbury
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Edmonton