Pamela Porter is the author of ten collections of poetry, two verse novels, and a novel and picture book for children. Her poetry collection, Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and her poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism…

Author of Peggy Lee's Delicious Lips (Quattro Books), and numerous novels and books of poetry, Harry is the Poet Laureate of Dufferin County and host of The Sill podcast (www.thesillpodcast.com). He teaches creative writing in the Caledon area, and offers editing services…

J. Jacob Potashnik spent much of his youth traveling and working in hotels and restaurants learning to cook but discovered he didn't have the back for it. Instead, Jacob studied communications and cinema and spent many years in film and television production. In 1996 Denys…

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…

Raised on the land and off the grid in rural and remote areas across Canada, Shantell Powell is a swamp hag and elder goth who grew up in an apocalyptic cult but got better. She’s a graduate of The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s horror residency, The Writers’ Studio at…

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 also the author of Garden Song (Lilac Arch 2026) among more than 40…

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…

Born 1949. Majored in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, N.Y.Moved to New Brunswick 1970. Married to sculptor Peter Powning. One son, Jacob M. Powning.Publications: Literary non-fiction: Home - Chronicle of a North Country Life, Shadow Child, Edge Seasons (Penguin…

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…

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…

Pratheepa Thillainathan (Pseudonym: Kangambikai Pratheepathi) is an aspiring educator, editor, translator and a published Tamil writer. She came to the settler state Canada following her father’s political asylum in the 1990s. Her will to write comes from learning from the lived…

  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 : poems…

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…

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 -…

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 …

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,…

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…

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.…