Jane Baird Warren's debut middle-grade book, HOW TO BE A GOLDFISH (Scholastic Canada 2022), was featured on "CBC's Middle-Grade Books to Watch For "and on CTV's Your Morning as one of "Eight Canadian Kids’ Books that make Great Gifts." She is represented by Elizabeth Bennett…

Sylvia Maultash Warsh was born in Germany to Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Toronto where she earned an MA in linguistics from the University of Toronto. Her parents' experiences during the war sparked an interest in history that has influenced Sylvia’s fiction. She has had…

Rhonda Waterfall studied Sales and Marketing at The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Creative Writing at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University where she was mentored by Stephen Osborne. For many years she worked in Ad Agencies…

Kelly Watt’s poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, was a recent finalist in the @poetrymesa and Wild Rising Press poetry contest in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2023) and will be published by Wild Rising Press in June 2024. Her suite of poems Tales of the Faerie #26,…

Literary criticism and poetry. 

Joyce Wayne's article "All the Kremlin's Men" was chosen for Best Canadian Essays 2021. It first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada. "And Change We Did" also appeared in the Literary Review of Canada in January 2022. Joyce is the author of two novels, The Cook's…

Writing is hot chocolate and space boots. Hot chocolate because of its source of comfort; a chief manifestation of creativity, agency in the world. It’s a prime way I connect with others and with myself. Space boots because writing is exploration. It’s a road to learning about…

Margaret Webb is the author of two nonfiction books and also writes feature films, fiction and magazine articles (food, farming, environment, wine, running, adventure travel, profiles, memoir -- okay, just about everything that catches her attention). Her features have appeared…

Barry Webster's first book The Sound of All Flesh (Porcupine’s Quill) won the 2006 Relit Award for short fiction and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize. His short stories have also been shortlisted for the National Magazine Award and the CBC-Quebec Prize. He has…

Emily A Weedon is a screenwriter, novelist, creator, coproducer and recovering performing and recording musician who is comfortable writing across mediums and forms from long form drama and romantic comedy, to dark, dystopian literary dramatic prose, satirizing and/or riffing in…

  Andrea L. Wehlann is Founder & CEO of Ganga Moon Yoga Studio and Reiki Skool in Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. With a BA in psychology from Brock University and a social services diploma from Niagara College, Andrea’s work in the social services field, as well as a…

Lorraine Weir came to oral history from Irish studies early in her career and Indigenous Studies more recently via a bridge from the Law and Society field and papers on the concepts of “time immemorial” and “oral tradition” in the Tŝilhqot’in case. She worked as an expert…

Star Weiss is a journalist, author, and educator living in Victoria, BC. Her background also includes a weekly radio column (Not Young, Not Old) and nationwide special (Healing the Heart), both for CBC Radio One. She hosted and produced the cable TV show "Kitchen Culture," (an…

Allan Weiss is a short story writer originally from Montreal and living in Toronto. He is the author of three story collections: Living Room (Boheme 2001), Making the Rounds (Edge 2016), and Telescope (Guernica Editions 2019). Other stories have appeared in various periodicals…

Dr. David S. WeissAuthor, President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd., andAffiliate Professor of the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto  For the past 25 years, Dr. David Weiss has been a major contributor to the field of leadership, innovation, and…

Katie Welch's stories have appeared in EVENT Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Temz Review, The Quarantine Review, Split Lip Magazine and elsewhere. An alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity's Emerging Writers Intensive, Katie…

Jennifer Wenn is a trans-identified writer and speaker from London, Ontario who was selected honorary Grand Marshall for London’s 2023 Pride Parade.  Her first poetry chapbook, A Song of Milestones, was published by Harmonia Press.  Her first full-size collection…

"FRANK!" aka "GRAMPA FRANK!" aka FRANK WESTCOTT  ~Multi-Genre, Multi-Published author since 1979 ~ Winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Award 2011 for "The Poet".  ~ Finalist Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize 2014 for "And She Lay…

Patricia Westerhof is an author, speaker, and writing coach. Her broad and eclectic tastes in reading have led to a similarly broad range of genre of her published works. Along with her most recent book, The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing, she has…