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Ellis Scott was born in the UK and grew up in Canada. He has published nine short stories in literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Yolk, and The Fiddlehead. His first short story was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. Night Terminus is his first novel and will be…
Trenton
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…
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…
Waterloo
Waterloo
Susan Scott is a Great Lakes writer and editor working at the crossroads of story, spirit, self, and culture. She has midwifed dozens of books and essays and has been editing with The New Quarterly (tnq.ca) since 2009. Collaborations with artists, activists, and scholars…
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…
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…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Lori Sebastianutti is a writer from Stoney Creek, Ontario. Her experiences as the child of Italian-Catholic immigrants growing up in Hamilton figure considerably in her creative nonfiction. So do her struggles with anxiety, depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and…
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…
Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) writes poetry and fiction. Her second poetry collection, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions) was released November 2024, and was on the CBC Books fall and November preview lists. Renée offers writing workshops in the Amherst Artists…
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…
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…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Beka Shane Denter is a Canadian features writer and author currently based in Denmark. Living abroad for more than twenty-five years has inspired her career. She has had wonderful opportunities to collaborate with several publications and platforms including CBC radio…
Marysville
Edmonton
Edmonton
Theresa Shea is the author of three novels: Dog Days of Planet Earth (ECW, Fall 2026), The Shade Tree (Guernica Editions, 2021), and The Unfinished Child (Brindle & Glass, 2013). An alum of McGill, Queen's, and the University of Alberta, she…