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Guelph
Guelph
Eric began writing for his grade 5 class to entice them to write and read.  This first book, Stand Your Ground, was published in 1994.  Subsequently he has written 128 novels and picture books for children and young adults, which are available around the world and have been…
Kitchener, ON
Kitchener, ON
David is the author or coauthor of more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and recipes. As “Tante Tina,” he has also been known to don a dress and kerchief and to pontificate on the trials of being a Mennonite farm woman in a men’s world gone mad. His science books, as…
Michelle Wamboldt is a writer living on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.  Michelle has a BA in English from Dalhousie University and a Journalism Diploma from the Humber College School of Journalism.   Michelle's debut novel, Birth Road, is a work of historical fiction inspired…
Banff
Banff
Meghan J. Ward is a writer, editor, digital content specialist and all-around storyteller based in Banff, Canada (Treaty 7 territory). A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Meghan has written several books and contributed to anthologies, blogs, award-winning films…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Betsy Warland is the author of a dozen books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. She is most widely known for her best-selling collection of essays, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing. Her most recent book, Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and…
Vancouver
Vancouver
Andrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. She’s the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (2018) and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music (2015). She’s a writer, broadcaster, podcaster, and creative consultant who also co-hosts…
Tom
Tom Warner was born in Saskatchewan in 1952. He grew up in Prince Albert. He attended, first, the University of Saskatchewan and then the University of Toronto, receiving a BA. In 1971, Tom helped found the first gay community centre in Saskatoon. He moved to Toronto in 1973,…
Ayer's Cliff
Ayer's Cliff
Jane Baird Warren's debut middle-grade book, HOW TO BE A GOLDFISH (Scholastic Canada 2022), was featured on "CBC's Middle-Grade Books to Watch For "and on CTV's Your Morning as one of "Eight Canadian Kids’ Books that make Great Gifts." She is represented by Elizabeth Bennett…
Sylvia Maultash Warsh was born in Germany to Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Toronto where she earned an MA in linguistics from the University of Toronto. Her parents' experiences during the war sparked an interest in history that has influenced Sylvia’s fiction. She has had…
Rhonda Waterfall studied Sales and Marketing at The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Creative Writing at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University where she was mentored by Stephen Osborne. For many years she worked in Ad Agencies…
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Kelly Watt’s poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, was a recent finalist in the @poetrymesa and Wild Rising Press poetry contest in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2023) and will be published by Wild Rising Press in June 2024. Her suite of poems Tales of the Faerie #26, was…
Literary criticism and poetry. 
Oakville
Oakville
Joyce Wayne's article "All the Kremlin's Men" was chosen for Best Canadian Essays 2021. It first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada. "And Change We Did" also appeared in the Literary Review of Canada in January 2022. Joyce is the author of two novels, The Cook's…
Kingston/Belleville - will travel
Kingston/Belleville - will travel
Judy Wearing's Grade 8 teacher wrote in her yearbook, "Words are like leaves. Where they most abound, fruit of sense is seldom found." Judy has been searching for sense ever since. After obtaining a PhD in animal behaviour and another degree in a similar subject - education, she…
Wolfe Island
Wolfe Island
Margaret Webb is the author of two nonfiction books and also writes feature films, fiction and magazine articles (food, farming, environment, wine, running, adventure travel, profiles, memoir -- okay, just about everything that catches her attention). Her features have appeared…
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…
Toronto
Toronto
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…
Edmonton
Edmonton
Matthew James Weigel is a Dene and Métis poet and artist pursuing an MA in English at the University of Alberta and holds a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences. He is the designer for Moon Jelly House press and his words and art have been published by people like Arc Poetry Magazine,…
Richmond
Richmond
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…
Victoria
Victoria
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 …