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Oakville
Oakville
I am a semi-retired freelance writer. I am a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother who has faced the challenges of mental illness since childhood. I recently discovered I have aphantasia (inability to visualize). Despite my aphantasia - or perhaps because of it - I…
In the last five years, I have published nine stories in prestigious literary journals, including The Iowa Review and The Fiddlehead. My first short story was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. 
Toronto
Toronto
Andrea Scott is a professional actor, playwright & producer who, after completing a year in the Obsidian Theatre Playwright Unit, saw her play Eating Pomegranates Naked accepted into the SummerWorks Performance Festival where it won the RBC Arts Professional award, named…
Calgary
Calgary
Barbara Joan Scott is a Calgary fiction writer. Her first collection of short stories, The Quick, was selected for the Toronto Star's list of must read books of 1999. Her work has been published in such literary magazines as Grain and Prairie Fire, and has been anthologized in…
Trenton
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…
Laura Sergeant (she/her) spent her twenties playing electric guitar on North American stages and spent subsequent decades as a Social Work specialist in the field of child and youth mental health. She’s been published in Canadian and American literary journals. Her work has been…
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…
John Sewell is a lawyer by training, but has spent most of his working life involved in different aspects of local politics: Toronto city councillor 1969-84, Mayor of Toronto 1978-80; community organizer and activist 1966-present; urban affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail…
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her debut poetry collection, life print, in points was published in the UK in 2020 by erbacce-press, and her second collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in the fall of 2024.…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Carol Shaben is an award-winning author and journalist. Her first book, Into the Abyss, was a national bestseller, selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and an Amazon.com Bestseller and Editor's Choice. Carol’s most…
Shaheen (also known in print as Wali Alam Shaheen, W. A. Shaheen, and occasionally by his former pen name Shaheen Ghazipuri) is the author of five collections of Urdu poetry, including Pushtara which was published in 2010. He has been extensively translated, and his poems have…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Theresa Shea is a novelist and author of The Shade Tree (Fall 2021) and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). She lives in Edmonton.
Saint John
Saint John
Casey Shelley is an author based in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has collected several degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of New Brunswick, a Bachelor of Education from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Education in…
Ottawa
Ottawa
'Off Centre' (Oberon 2004) Caroline Shepard’s debut collection of short fiction was short listed for the 2005 Danuta Gleed Award. Her first novel, 'Unlit Spaces' (Friesen Press, 2014) was nominated for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Caroline spent her childhood in…