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Linda Hutsell-Manning

Linda Hutsell-Manning's memoir, Fearless and Determined: Two Years Teaching in a One-Room School will be published by Blue Demin Press, Oct 2019. A two act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, premiered in 2017 and is available 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.
Since Covid, she has given a number of ZOOM readings, taught a ZOOM Power Point Creative Writing Course to Toronto Senios and will present a virtual WITS presentation to a Cobourg, Ontario school in 2021.
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 in 1940, 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.