Member Review
I write my TWUC membership dues every year when I get my PLR cheque, which we only have because of the advocacy of this organization. I wouldn't want to think of the kind of literary landscape we would be inhabiting without it, and can only wishfully imagine the good work that could be accomplished if every Canadian writer became a part of it.
Member Profile
Linda Hutsell-Manning
An excerpt from Linda Hutsell-Manning's memoir, Two Years out of Time - teaching in a one room school in the 1960's has been published in Hill Spirits III, Blue Demin Press. Her children's story, "Finding Moufette" will be published electronically by Common Deer Press Dec 20, 2017. Her two act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, premiered by VOS Theatre, Cobourg, ON Feb 2017 and is now available as a copyscript from Playwright's Guild Canada. Her novella, Heads I Win, was short-listed in Quattro Books 2014 novella competition. Her debut novel,That Summer in Franklin, Second Story Press, Toronto, 2011, has been compared to the writing of Margaret Laurence and Maeve Binchy (Open Book Ontario 2013) She has read in libraries and bookstores across Canada and is popular with Book Clubs.
She also continues to give readings in schools and libraries from her picture books and juvenile time travel novels.
Her previous publications include plays, poetry, short fiction and TV scripts. She has worked as a free-lance journalist, taught creative writing at several community colleges, hosted author reading series and promoted her work internationally.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she moved to Ontario at age nine. After Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and Toronto Teachers' College, she taught for two years in a southern Ontario one room school. She has a B.A. from the University of Guelph and began writing full time in 1981.
Married with three adult children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, she has lived in many Canadian communities from Kamloops, BC to Cobourg, Ontario, where she now makes her home.
