Member Review
Canadian writers take so much for granted. Canada Council programs. Festivals and readings. Cheques arriving from the Public Lending Right Commission and Access Copyright. The Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards. Apparently, some of us believe that these things sprang unbidden from a naturally generous culture, and will always be with us. But they exist thanks mainly to the sustained creative efforts and constant vigilance of The Writers’ Union of Canada. We owe. We owe those who have gone before us, and we owe those who will come after.
Member Profile
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Mireille Messier
Mireille Messier is a french-speaking Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and now Toronto-based children’s author with a background in theatre and broadcasting. She has published over twenty picture books and chapter books, most of them in French but some in English. She is also a contributor to various children and teen magazines in both French and English. Mireille has worked in children's television as a scriptwriter and director for TVO Kids, Kids CBC and Mini TFO. She also enjoys doing corporate writing of youth-oriented material for such clients as General Mills, Scholastic Canada, Teletoon, Kraft Foods and Via Rail.
On average, Mireille gives one hundred school presentations per year to French, French immersion and English groups across Canada.
In her spare time, she enjoys making sock monkeys with her two wonderful teenage daughters.
