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 Reiki…

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…

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 HR…

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…

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 has talked to bears…

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, Hear Through…

"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 Herself Down".  ~ Inducted into…

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 written…

Margo Wheaton is an award-winning poet and editor and is the author of the poetry collection Rags of Night in Our Mouths (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022). She lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq.  Her debut…

Susan White was born in New Brunswick. She earned her BA and BEd at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. She and her husband Burton raised four children and ran a small family farm while Susan taught elementary school for 29 years and Burton had a career in the military. In…

Karen Lee White is Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots from Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  Karen was adopted into the Daklaweidi Wolf Clan of the Interior Tlingit/Tagish people on whose land her most recent novel Bonewalker (2023, Exile Editions), takes place.…

Alan Whitehorn is an emeritus professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. He received his BA (York) in Political Science & History and his MA and PhD (Carleton) in political science. In the mid-seventies, he served as the research director on the David Lewis memoirs.…