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Kingston
Kingston
Tradeswoman, artist, writer, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly two-spirited Métis, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (Spring 2022) Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss (2009) and Why I’m…
Kitchener
Kitchener
Shantell (Shan) Powell is a two-spirit author, artist, and swamp hag who grew up in an apocalyptic cult while living off the land.  Shan is the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellow for 2023, a fellow for the Roots Wounds Words Winter Retreat, and is a 2022graduate of the…
Regina
Regina
Marie Powell's adventures in castle hopping across North Wales resulted in her young adult historical fantasy series, Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight and Water Sight (Wood Dragon, 2020). She is the author of over 40 children's books published by Scholastic Canada, Amicus,…
Ottawa and St. John's
Ottawa and St. John's
Sara Power is a storyteller from Labrador and a former artillery officer in the Canadian Forces. Her stories have appeared in journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, and most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2024.  Sara was a finalist for the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award…
Montreal
Montreal
Melanie Power is a Montreal-based writer. She is the author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in various Canadian literary magazines, and has been shortlisted in Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, the Montreal…
Sussex
Toronto
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Leanne Prain's fourth book The Creative Instigator's Handbook, A DIY Guide to Creating Social Change Through Art was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2022. Leanne co-authored the subversive knitting book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti with knitting…
St. John's
St. John's
Katherine Prairie, a geologist and IT professional, stepped away from her career to follow her passion for writing. An avid traveller with an insatiable curiosity, you never know where you’ll find her next! But most days, she’s in Kingston, Canada quietly plotting murder and…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Rick Prashaw has had a diverse career as a journalist at the Vancouver Sun, Catholic priest in Northern Ontario, executive director of a national NGO ion healing justice, (The Church Council on Justice and Corrections in Canada), and political staff to three members of the…
Whistler
Whistler
    Bronwyn holds a PhD in Performance, along with a MA and BFA in Applied Theatre. A ‘backcountry poet’, she is the author of knee deep in high water : riding the Muskwa-Kechika, expedition poems (Caitlin Press, 2023) along with the forthcoming hiking beyond… and Hiking…
Author of 16 books, poetry and prose. Six CDs of music, some for adults some for little kids, some for young adults. 30 years experience teaching writing to all ages. CBC topical songwriter. Contributions to Sesame Street. Wrote #1 hit: Song Instead of a Kiss for Alannah Myles.…
Toronto
Toronto
I am a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction and sometimes fiction, as well as scholarship on trauma and literature. My creative non-fiction project, Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide, with Gordon Hill Press, has just been published. Several essays from this collection…
Napanee
Napanee
Sherry Pringle is a Napanee, On native She has two published non-fiction, history books, both detailing personal accounts of individuals in WWII. Pringle has interviewed, researched and recorded  accounts of contributions, tales of heroism and incarceration from 100 Canadian men…
Colborne
Colborne
Marie Prins's picture book WHO'S WALKING DAWG? was published by Red Deer Press, 2024 and her middle grade novel THE GIRL FROM THE ATTIC by Common Deer Press 2020. Her children's short stories, memoir pieces and poetry are found in the Spirit of the Hills Writers' Anthologies -…
Toronto
Toronto
Dawn Promislow's novel, Wan, was published by Freehand Books in 2022 and has been critically acclaimed. It was short-listed for the Fred Kerner Book Award 2023, was a Best Fiction of 2022 in The Miramichi Reader, and was on CBC Books's 2022 Summer and Holiday lists for…
Stratford
Stratford
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1953. Graduated from Aberdeen University, then came to Canada to do a master’s degree at Queen’s University, Kingston. Spent 14 years as a writer and editor at the Kingston Whig-Standard during that paper's “golden age” under editor Neil Reynolds,…
Peterborough
Peterborough
Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability advocate, and author of the memoir-in-essays I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024), which was named a Fall 2024 ‘Most Anticipated’ Memoir & Biography by Indigo and 49th Shelf.…
Toronto
Toronto
Kris Purdy is a former musician, singer-songwriter and public broadcaster. She spent a big chunk of her growing up years in Tucson, Arizona but Canada has always been home. She has a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Toronto and received a diploma in jazz…
Pickering
Pickering
Rick Pyves is a published author, avid historian and genealogist and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. Rick is a graduate of Concordia (Sir George Williams) University and McGill University and holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Business Administration in Marketing.…
Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Lily Quan is the author of the Middle Grade book adaptation of Disney and Pixar's movie, Turning Red. She is also an editor and literary programmer, and currently makes her home on beautiful Vancouver Island. Lily is represented by Jennifer Chen Tran of Folio Literary…