Hello! Vanessa, here. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find my profile informative. Be sure to send me a message if you have any questions or if you're interested in working together! I teach full or half-day writing workshops in the elementary and secondary school system as…

Leslie Shimotakahara's fourth novel, The Breakwater, was recently acquired for publication by Cormorant Books. Her third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Fiction Preview…

Robert J.M. Shipley grew up in southern Ontario. He studied at University of Western Ontario (BA 1971) and became an officer, first in the army then the navy. During his four years, he served on the prairies, both coasts and at sea. As a freelancer in the 1970s, he wrote for the…

Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair. Jocelyn…

I was born in Toronto in 1945. I completed an Honours BA in French language and literature at the University of Toronto, an MA in Comparative Literature at Carleton University and a PhD in Comparative Literature at l'Université de Montréal. I founded and edited Manna: a review…

Anne Shmelzer's Ottawa Citizen award-winning memoir, The Night My Father Came Back from the War, served as a precursor to her debut novel, A Marginally Noted Man. Anne's extensive knowledge and experience as a psychiatric nurse helped shape her characters and her years as a poet…

Jillian is an author and editor in Victoria, BC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mystery Magazine, sub-TERRAIN Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the Toronto Journal. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Exeter Story Prize, and…

Jacques Shore is a partner in the international law firm of Gowling WLG. Mr. Shore is a published author and artist. His published works include articles on the law and public policy, op-eds, as well as three children’s books, and an illustrated book of short stories. Mr. Shore…

Sandy Shreve has written, edited and/or co-edited eight books and four chapbooks. Her most recent poetry collection is Waiting for the Albatross (Oolichan Books, 2015). Her previous books include Suddenly, So Much (Exile Editions, 2005) and In Fine Form, 2nd edition - A…

My name is Craig Shreve. I was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad, the system of routes and safe houses…

Meenal Shrivastava lives as an uninvited guest in the unceded Coast Salish territory, on an (almost) acreage in North Saanich, BC. She is the author of a non-fiction novel, co-editor of a genre-bending anthology, and the writer of sundry academic publications as a professor of…

Jade Shyback spent her childhood in Western Canada: Red Deer, Nanaimo, and Innisfail. She obtained a BA in English Literature from the University of Calgary in 1996, before relocating to Southern Ontario and eventually Abu Dhabi. A former financial regulator in the United Arab…

Ottawa writer, journalist and editor Barbara Sibbald has published an award-winning collection of short stories, two print novels and an online novel. Her collection of short fiction, The Museum of Possibilities (The Porcupines Quill, 2017), won gold in the Foreword Indies 2017…

Felicity Sidnell Reid’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in anthologies and on line journals. Her historical novel, Alone: A Winter in the Woods (Hidden Brook Press) set 1796 takes place on the shores of Presqu’ile bay. She is a contributor to and one of the…

Maggie Siggins is a journalist, author of nine books, and a television producer/writer. Based in Regina, she is currently the vice-president, creative of 4 Square Productions, an innovative independent production house. She has written/produced over twenty documentaries as well…

  Publications: The Death of Tony, nonfiction, Stonehewer Books, 2024 Some Unfinished Business, Cormorant Books, 2023 Provisionally Yours, Biblioasis, 2019. The Barefoot Bingo Caller. ECW, 2017 Underground. Thomas Allen, 2011 Woman in Bronze. Toronto: Random House Canada…