Wight, Emily
Emily Wight is a writer, blogger, and home cook. A graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia, she’s spent the past six years blogging at Well Fed, Flat Broke, a site that chronicles her forays in the kitchen as she tries to balance a career and parenthood, which includes a […]
WOOD BARRETT, REBECCA
REBECCA WOOD BARRETT is an award-winning filmmaker and writer living in Whistler, B.C. In 2019 her short film The Soundtrack, co-directed with Janalee Budge, was a finalist in the WSSF 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown. Her short fiction has been published in Room, The Antigonish Review and Pique Newsmagazine. Her children’s chapter book, My Best Friend is […]
Winter, Michael
Michael Winter has published two collections of stories, five novels, and one work of non-fiction. He is the only writer ever to win the Notable Author award, given out by the Writers Trust. He divides his time between Toronto and Newfoundland.
Walters, Eric
Eric Walters began writing in 1993 as a way to entice his grade 5 students into becoming more interested in reading and writing. Each day he would read to his students the story he was writing which was set in their school, in their community and with some of the students as characters. At the end […]
Wachtel, Eleanor
Eleanor Wachtel is the host and co-founder of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, which is celebrating its 25rd anniversary this fall, and is a winner of the New York Festivals Award. She also co-founded and hosts Wachtel on the Arts. Her most recent books are Original Minds and Random Illuminations, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award. Wachtel has received many honours for her contributions […]
Toltz, Steve
Steve Toltz’s first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and […]
Simonds, Merilyn
Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 16 books, including The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; The Convict Lover, a Governor General’s Award finalist; Breakfast at the Exit Café, a travel memoir co-written with her husband; a book of essays A New Leaf: Growing with my Garden; and most recently, The Paradise […]
Simmers, Bren
Bren Simmers is the author of one previous book of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). She is the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award, was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and has been twice longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her work has been […]
Shillingford, Gordon
Gordon Shillingford has been a publisher for nearly thirty years and is the President of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. That company is comprised of several distinct imprints including Scirocco Drama, The Muses’ Company, Watson & Dwyer, and J. Gordon Shillingford. Still a Saskatchewan-born boy at heart, he always cheers for the Riders. Which means he […]
Schutz, Diana
Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry for over thirty-five years. Since 1990, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now a senior executive editor. She is also an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College, a published author of both comics […]