Member Directory
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Toronto
Toronto
Richard Scrimger has written for print media and television, but is best known for his 20+ books for adults and children. He’s won a few awards, been translated into a few more languages, and led workshops on several continents. Recent novels feature a hero who is obnoxious but…

St. Catharines
St. Catharines
My publications to date have been mainly academic, but I am branching out to creative non-fiction. At work on a memoir.
Gatineau
Gatineau
Coltrane Seesequasis is a young fantasy writer of Indigenous heritage who grew up in Gatineau, Quebec. He first began his writing journey on long bus rides to school where he would alleviate the boredom by daydreaming of fantastical worlds, noble heroes, and unwavering villains…
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, after the 1983 riots in Colombo. Selvadurai has studied creative writing and journalism, and has a B.F.A. from York University. He has written for television, and…


Ohsweken
Ohsweken
Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness
Book: The False Healer: A Trilogy.
As an Indigenous Author and Master of Transformative Knowledge for Wellness, Paula Sevestre has been led to explore and integrate Wholeness Medicine. This simply means, by…

Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was released November 2024, and was on the CBC Books fall and November preview lists. Renée offers writing workshops in the Amherst Artists…

Vancouver


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Ottawa
Mississauga
Mississauga
Victor Shepherd was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at the University of Toronto and at Aberdeen University. He was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1970 and is currently a Presbyterian minister. He has taught at Memorial University, McMaster and…
Windsor

Toronto
Toronto
Leslie Shimotakahara's fourth novel, The Breakwater, was recently acquired for publication by Cormorant Books. Her third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring…