Member Directory
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Eleonore Schönmaier's most recent collection is Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (2021, McGill-Queen's University Press). Wavelengths of Your Song (2013, MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne). Dust…
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Philipp Schott was born in Germany and grew up in Saskatoon. He now lives in Winnipeg where he practises veterinary medicine, writes, and shares a creaky old house on the river with his wife, two teenagers, three cats, and a dog.
His first book, a collection of essays titled The…
Roberts Creek, B.C.
Roberts Creek, B.C.
Andreas Schroeder was born to a Mennonite family in Germany, 1946. He emigrated to Canada in 1951. He attended the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto from 1965-71, and obtained his B.A. and M.A. in comparative literature and creative writing. He travelled throughout…
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Burnaby, BC
Burnaby, BC
Ellen Schwartz has taught special education, elementary classes, and creative-writing courses for adults. She holds a BSc. in special education from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She works as a corporate and…
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Trenton
Oakville
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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…
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Toronto
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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…
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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.
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…
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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…
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Vancouver
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Edmonton
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Ottawa