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…

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…

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…

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…

KatieWelch lives in Kamloops and on Cortes Island, BC. Her debut novel, Mad Honey, was nominated for the 2023 OLA Evergreen Prize. She is a two-time alumnus of the Banff Centre and was a finalist for the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. Find her online at http://writerkatiewelch.com.

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…

"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…

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…

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. …

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…

Jennifer Whiteford (she/her) is the author of the 2024 romcom Make Me a Mixtape and a regular contributor to Razorcake, a long-standing punk publication. She is also one half of the CBC All in a Day monthly book review panel. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with her partner,…

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…

Agnes Whitfield grew up in Peterborough, Ontario, and has lived for many years in Montreal. She holds a doctorate in Québec literature from Laval University, and teaches Canadian literature at York University. She writes in both French and English. Predominantly known as a…

NEW BOOK: FLYING, FALLING, CATCHING: An Unlikely Story of Finding FreedomThis just came in from Sojourners magazine — it's a temporary link with no paywall!Why Henri Nouwen Fell in Love With the Trapeze - https://sojo.net/sojoshare/NzIzNTl8MjM2MTkxfDE3NTAyNzU2NjB8MTY=…

Audrey Whitson's novel, The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning (NeWest 2019), set in rural Alberta during the BSE crisis and drought of 2003 was a finalist for the 2020 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. The Glorious Mysteries, a collection of…