NS Writers Profiles
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A fomer high school teacher, literacy mentor, and university instructor, Don Aker fell into writing in 1988 after attending the Martha's Vineyard Summer Writing Workshops, where instructors encouraged participants to write with their students. Encouraged by winning the short...
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Peggy Amirault is a freelance writer and editor. Media and related skills include: copy writing/editing, magazine editing, report writing, desktop publishing of newsletters and brochures, photography, research, press releases, publicity and promotion, newspaper reporting. Areas of writing...
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Born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, in 1929, Peggy holds degrees from King's College and Acadia University and has taught school in Annapolis Royal. She has written plays, historical articles and contemporary profiles. Peggy has produced several stage plays and contributed numerous...
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Novelist, short story writer, children's author, broadcaster, and playwright Kent Baker teaches literature and fiction writing part time at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. Kent has had a variety of creative work published or produced and is currently busy with a collection...
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After a few years in the U.S., John Wall Barger grew up in Nova Scotia, and then moved away to Vancouver, Ottawa, Rome, Prague, and Dublin. He has lived in the north end of Halifax on and off for the last ten years. Over the last five years, he has taken part in many readings and workshops...
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Brian Bartlett was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, in 1953, grew up in Fredericton, lived for 15 years in Montreal, and moved to Halifax in 1990 to begin teaching creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University, where he can still be found today. He has published...
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Jane Baskwill was born in Queens, New York, but has lived most of her adult life in rural Nova Scotia. There she has watched foxes steal pears from beneath the trees in her back yard, listened to red-tailed hawks argue over a recently caught meal, smelled the arrival of a...
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Michael Bawtree has worked in Canadian theatre and television for over forty years. He is the author of a number of plays, including The Last of the Tsars, as well as a book on music theatre, The New Singing Theatre, and a young person's...
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Joan Baxter is a Nova Scotian author, journalist, development researcher/writer and anthropologist who now divides her time between Canada and Africa. Her 2008 book, Dust From Our Eyes - an unblinkered look at Africa, was shortlisted for the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace...
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John Bell is the author or editor of nearly twenty books touching on various aspects of Canadian history and culture. A former editor of the poetry magazine Arc, he has contributed to a wide variety of periodicals, including Literary Review of Canada, ...
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Chris Benjamin is a freelance journalist and author. His critically-acclaimed debut novel, Drive-by Saviours, won the H.R. Percy Prize and was shortlisted for Canada Reads 2011 and a ReLit Prize.
His first book of non-fiction, Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in...
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Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D. (OISE/Toronto) is a Halifax author and the Founding Director of Schoolhouse Consulting, an independent educational consulting firm. Over a career spanning three decades in three different provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, Paul Bennett has...
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Sophie Bérubé brings innovation and passion to her work as a writer and performer. Writing mainly in French, she is the author of the Le chef d'oeuvre de Lombrie and La truelle magique. ...
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Laura lives in East Dalhousie, Nova Scotia with her husband, Brian. A member of the Parkdale/Maplewood Museum Society, Laura has a strong interest in local history, and participates in the school group program at the museum. At the age of ten, she wrote her first play and she's...
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Originally from Manchester, England, Jenni Blackmore now considers Halifax her home and is greatly influenced by the coastal environment. As an illustrator and writer, she combines both talents in her books for children. Jenni has been mentioned in "Our Choice Book List" and "...
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After spending most of his life in various parts of the United States, Gary immigrated to Canada several years ago. He lives on three acres of woods outside Tatamagouche.
At sixteen, Gary got his first encouraging letter from an editor and sold his...
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Joe Blades has been giving readings and publishing his poetry since 1980. He was born in Halifax, NS, Canada. Based in Fredericton, NB, since 1990, he grew up in Elmsdale and Dartmouth, NS. He has also lived, studied, and/or worked in Delhaven, Halifax, and Port Hawksbury, NS; Toronto, ON;...
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George has been writing poetry for all of his adult life. His eclectic repertoire includes poetry, journalism, children’s stories and gospel song writing.
George has three published cultured books on the black experience from Africa to Nova Scotia.
He has created two dramatic...
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Binnie Brennan's fiction has been published in a number of literary journals, including The Adirondack Review, Existere, and All Rights Reserved. Her novella, Harbour View, won the 2009 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest and was shortlisted for a 2010 Atlantic Book Award (the...
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Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books and the owner and operator of Boularderie Island Press. The Globe and Mail called his novel, Quintet, a masterfully written book. It was the recipient of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award....
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Carol Bruneau is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, After the Angel Mill (1995) and Depth Rapture (1998), and three novels, Glass Voices (2007), named a...
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George Burden is a family physician, a 1978 graduate of Dalhousie University, who has practiced for over twenty-five years in the village of Elmsdale, Nova Scotia. He has had an active twenty year career as a freelance writer, with a focus on travel, but with publications...
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Alice Burdick lives and writes poetry in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. She shares a home with her husband and two young children. Alice moved to Halifax in 2002 from Toronto, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She has also lived in Espanola, Vancouver, and on the Sechelt Peninsula in BC.
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Geoff Butler is a painter, writer and book illustrator. He was born on Fogo Island, Nfld., near Brimstone Head which has been designated by the Flat Earth Society as one of the four corners of the earth.
Geoff practices his art daily so as not to fall...
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Silver Donald Cameron is one of Canada's most versatile and experienced professional authors. He is currently the host and...
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Jonathan Campbell is the author of short stories, plays, and television dramas. Born in Montreal, raised in Cape Breton, he received a B.A. from Acadia University and an English M.A. from Dalhousie University. He lives in the Annapolis Valley with his wife, painter Lindee Climo....
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Wanda Campbell was born and grew up in Andhra Pradesh, South India. She came to Canada at the age of 10, and lived in New Brunswick for many years before completing a Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Windsor under the supervision of Alistair MacLeod, and...
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Richard Charlton is originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. After five years in Nairobi, Kenya, in East Africa, he finally emigrated to Canada in 1975 with wife June and their three children: Joanne, John and James, settling in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Richard is a professional electrical...
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Lesley teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has published over 70 books for adults and kids. His Young Adult novels concern things like skateboarding, surfing, racism, environmental issues, organ transplants, and rock bands. Lesley surfs year...
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George Elliott Clarke, inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, was born near the Black Loyalist community of Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, and raised in Halifax. The son of William and Geraldine Clarke, Clarke holds an Honours B.A. in English from the...
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Jan Coates lives in Wolfville with her husband and a Golden Irish puppy. She has two young adult children, she works as a substitute teacher with the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board and enjoys visiting schools through the Writers in the Schools (WITS) program. Jan's...
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Devon Code is originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. His fiction has appeared internationally in periodicals and anthologies. In a Mist, his short fiction collection, was selected by the Globe and Mail as a notable debut of 2008. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Writers'...
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Carol Ann Cole is an author, professional speaker, former Vice President with Bell Canada and the founder of the Comfort Heart initiative, which has raised over one million dollars for cancer research. She has received the Order of Canada, the Golden Jubilee Medal, the Terry...
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Ian Colford is a fiction writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His stories, reviews, and commentary have appeared in Canadian literary publications from coast to coast and in journals published online. From 1995 to 1998 he was editor of the literary journal Pottersfield Portfolio, and...
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Valerie Compton is the author of the novel Tide Road, a finalist for the 2012 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals across Canada and shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award. Her non-fiction articles and book reviews have appeared in...
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Christy Ann Conlin's debut novel, Heave, was a national bestseller and one of the Globe and Mail's top books of 2002. Her second adult novel, Listening for the Island, will be published by Doubleday. Her first YA novel, Dead Time, will be come out with Annick...
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Gregory M. Cook was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. As one of three poets in his immediate family, he has made writers and their survival a personal and a professional study. His biography of his close friend of twenty years, One Heart, One Way/ Alden...
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Lesley grew up in Montreal. After graduating from Concordia University with a degree in English and Education, she and hubby settled in Homeville, Cape Breton and raised a family. From 2000-2005, Lesley was a features writer and columnist (Home Fires) for The Cape Bretoner...
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Raised in Montreal by Nova Scotian parents, Liz spent most of her childhood summers in Chester. After graduating from Dalhousie University, she taught high school in Ontario. In 1969, she returned to Halifax to marry Brian Crocker and teach at the Halifax Grammar School. In...
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Bill was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and now lives in Lake Annis, Yarmouth County with his wife, Frances. A World War II veteran and holding a Masters in Art Education from SUNY, Bill divides his time between writing and painting, He has served as President of Clan Cameron, N.S. and of the St....
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Sheldon Currie was born in Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, and often draws from the mining experience in his writing. His novel, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, was adapted for film under the title Margaret's Museum, which won...
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Wayne Curtis was born near Blackville, New Brunswick in 1943. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and St. Thomas University, majoring in English. He started writing prose in the late sixties. His work has been described by Books in Canada as "a pleasure to read, for no...
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After completing his doctorate at King's College, University of London, Brian Cuthbertson came to live permanently in Halifax in 1973 where he was employed as government records archivist at Public Archives of Nova from 1974 to 1984. It was while he was at the Archives that he began his...
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Cynthia's first novel, Unlocked, was released in 2010 by Word Alive Press and her second novel, Oak Island Revenge, will be released by Nimbus Publishing in late 2011, early 2012. Cynthia has published several non-fiction articles and has a short story in A Maritime Christmas (Nimbus, 2008). She...
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Gwen Davies founded the acclaimed writing retreat Community of Writers that continues as a summer workshop series at the Tatamagouche Centre. She writes and teaches fiction, often works as a consultant in clear language and design, and does parkour. One of her stories, ...
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Lynn Davies was born in Moncton, New Brunswick. She lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for 16 years and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English from the University of King's College. She now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She's taught creative writing at the University of New Brunswick,...
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MARQ DE VILLIERS is a veteran journalist who has reported from many parts of the world, especially Africa and the former Soviet Union. He has also been editor, and then publisher, of Toronto Life magazine, Toronto, and editorial director of WHERE Magazines International, Los Angeles. De Villiers...
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Jodi DeLong has been a professional freelance writer for over a decade. Although she does some corporate writing for websites and businesses, she especially relishes storytelling, particularly to do with gardening, cats, or bouncing around the North Atlantic on a coast guard ship. She is a...
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Alison is an author, freelance journalist, editor, writing coach, and consultant. Her children's chapter book Lunar Lifter was published by Bryler Publications in April 2012 and hit number 1 on the Nova Scotia bestseller list in May 2012. Lunar Lifter is the story of two children’s ingenuity and...
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DINA DESVEAUX is a fiction writer, freelance editor and academic researcher/writer. Her first novel, GARDEN OF THE GODS, was nominated in the best first novel category of the Atlantic Book Awards. She is the co-founder and host of the Halifax Wired Monks, a writers' critique group.
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Burris Devanney grew up in Halifax, NS. He took degrees at Saint Mary’s, Dalhousie and the University of Ottawa. He enjoyed a full career as a high school teacher and administrator in Halifax, but also found or created opportunities to work in six African countries –...
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Frances Jewel Dickson was born and raised in Quebec. Her work as a bilingual Manager in the federal government brought her to reside in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. While on assignment on Parliament Hill, she wrote human resources policy for the Speaker of the House of Commons. Since 1987 she...
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Philip Dinn is a stage and screen Actor-Writer and Musician living in Halifax. Philip is the Artistic Director of Jack Five Oh Theatre Productions and has written and co-written some 25 main stage theatre productions and productions for young audiences in the past 25 years.
As a founding...
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Pamela Ditchoff was born in Lansing, Michigan on September 21, 1950. She began writing poems and stories at the age of seven. She received a BA in Communication Arts from Michigan State University (1982), and an MA in English/Creative Writing from Michigan State University (1985). In the mid-...
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Nicole Dixon has lived in Toronto, Sarnia, Windsor, North Bay and Halifax. Her work has been nominated for the Journey Prize and a CBC Literary Award and appeared in The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead and Canadian Notes and Queries. In 2005 she won the...
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Kristin is a teacher, writer, and doctoral student at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has a BA in Linguistics (Cornell University), an MSc in Education (Syracuse University) and an MAEd in Literacy Education (MSVU) with twenty-seven years' experience teaching language arts and English as a...
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Sally Erskine Doucette works as a freelance writer, and researcher from her home overlooking the Dartmouth Lakes. She writes non-fiction articles for periodicals, and her work has appeared in several publications, including The Chronicle Herald, The Atlantic Co-operator, Kentville Advertiser,...
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Judy Dudar was raised in Alberta. She studied education at the University of Edmonton before moving to Nova Scotia with her husband and family in 1966. Family moves then took her to Vancouver, Norway, and England. After completing her BA, MA and Ph.D. she taught in the Departments of English at...
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Deirdre Dwyer has been writing poetry since her teacher taught her about haiku in grade six. In the meantime, she's worked as an English as a Second Language teacher in Tokyo, a Creative Writing instructor in Halifax, a Sessional Instructor of English in Windsor and a bookseller. Deirdre holds...
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Sarah Emsley writes primarily about Jane Austen's life and works, women writers who were influenced by Austen, and Canadian - especially Nova Scotian - history. She grew up in Halifax and received her PhD from Dalhousie University before spending time in Oxford, England, as a postdoctoral fellow...
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Cindy Etter-Turnbull was born on November 24th, 1960 in Windsor Nova Scotia. After growing up in the village of Brooklyn, Hants County and educated in the West Hants school system, Cindy went on to further her university education at Mount Saint Vincent and Acadia. This was interrupted when the...
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Leigh Faulkner is originally from Bass River, now living on the edge of the Atlantic in Ingomar. He has written four books of poetry. His poems have been published in several anthologies, including Tributaries (1978), And Other Travels (1988), Songs from the North (1989), nine allisonian poets (...
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Born in 1957 in Storeytown, New Brunswick, Penny Ferguson attended Nova Scotia Teachers College (A.Ed.) and Acadia University (B.Ed., & B.A.). While studying at Acadia, Penny edited Alpha Arts Magazine for three years. She taught full and part-time in public and private...
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Mark is the author of a series of books dealing with mysteries of early Canadian(east coast) history (Oak Island Secrets, The Sinclair Saga, The First Nova Scotian). His book about the world famous Oak Island mystery explores the possible involvement of seventeenth century Freemasonry...
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Sheree Fitch is an educator, literacy activist and author of award winning poetry, picture books, nonfiction, plays and novels for all ages. Her first book, Toes in My Nose, illustrated by Molly Lamb Bobak, was launched in 1987. The books that...
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Trudy left her native Nova Scotia home for a three year round-the-world journey, writing travel articles all the way. She got sidetracked in Hong Kong and spent over a year working for The Hong Kong Standard, an English language daily in Hong Kong. Finally, she decided to abandon the glitter and...
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Jaime Forsythe is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and journalist. She edited the Invisible Publishing anthology Transits: Stories from In-Between, and her writing has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including This Magazine, Geist, and The New Quarterly....
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Deanna Foster currently works at Dalhousie University, where she received her BA in History and English. Her non-fiction book, A History of Hangings in Nova Scotia, was released by Pottersfield Press in 2007 and became a local bestseller. She recently completed Into the Walls of Madness: Asylum...
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Melanie Furlong is a freelance journalist who has written for a wide range of North American publications including The Rotarian, Latitudes In-Flight Magazine, Canadian Contractor, Meetings and Incentive Travel, The Chronicle Herald, The Medical Post, East Coast Living, Atlantic Progress, Nature...
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Joyce studied silversmithing at the New Brunswick school of Craft and Design before going on to earn her BA, with honours in English, from Saint Mary's University. She is a Halifax-based freelance writer, editor and the author of four non-fiction books including The Halifax Explosion: Surviving...
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Sue Goyette lives in Halifax and has published three books of poems, The True Names of Birds, Undone and outskirts (Brick Books). Her novel, Lures (HarperCollins), was published in 2002. She's been nominated for several awards including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther,...
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Monica Graham is a freelance journalist and photographer. She has written for the Halifax Chronicle Herald since 1996. Her work has also appeared in The Pictou Advocate, Canadian Living, Trident, The Atlantic Fisherman, and other publications. One of her short stories "Don't Worry, We'll Have...
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Shauntay Grant is a writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist, and musician. She has shared her blend of poetry and music internationally at festivals and events, and as Halifax's third Poet Laureate she organized Canada's first national gathering of Canadian Poets Laureate in 2010....
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After a career in advertising and television, Vicki wrote her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She was immediately hooked on writing for YAs. Quid pro Quo, her next novel, quickly became a bestseller and won The Arthur Ellis award for Best Juvenile Crime fiction. Since then she's...
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Joyce Grant-Smith was born in Annapolis Royal and has spent most of her life in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. She took her B.A. and B.Ed. at Acadia University. She has enjoyed teaching in elementary and middle schools for many years; so many years, in fact, that she's frequently taught the...
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Daphne lives with her husband and four daughters in Newport Landing, Nova Scotia. After a career working with people with special needs, Daphne took up writing. Her first novel, Maxed Out is geared towards relucant readers and her love of tackling challenging situtations. Daphne has a great...
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Sylvia Gunnery first took herself seriously as a writer when she attended the five-week Banff Centre writing session in 1976 under the instruction of W.O. Mitchell, Alice Munro, Eli Mandel, and others. Since then she has published many books for teens and children as well as professional...
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Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen was born and raised on the prairies, where she learned, among other things, how to make relish and flapper pie. She studied literature at the University of Saskatchewan and since then has published two collections of poetry. Clay Birds, published by Coteau Books, was...
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Wolfville-born Susan Haley holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at the universities of Calgary and Saskatchewan. Two of her novels, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump and A Nest of Singing Birds, have been made into movies for CBC TV. Her third novel, How to Start a Charter Airline, draws on her...
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Jackie was born in London, England. After several globetrotting years she and her family discovered Nova Scotia and they have lived here ever since. Jackie is a writer, artist, potter and avid reader. She likes whale watching, cats and adventures.
For many years, she has worked as a...
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Sylvia D. Hamilton is a Nova Scotian filmmaker and writer. Through her work as a filmmaker and artist, she has brought the life experiences of African Nova Scotians to the mainstream of Canadian arts. Her first film, Black Mother Black Daughter, has been seen in over forty film festivals...
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Don Hannah lives in Toronto and Lunenburg County. His novels, The Wise and Foolish Virgins (Thomas Raddall Nomination) and Ragged Islands (2008 Thomas Raddall winner) are published by Knopf Canada. His plays include The Wedding Script (Chalmers Award), Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, The Wooden...
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Lisa Harrington graduated from MSVU with a degree in Education. Rattled, her first novel, was published by Nimbus in 2010 and her short story, 'A Nanna Mary Christmas', was published in A Maritime Christmas. Lisa lives in Bedford, NS with her family....
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Jennifer Hatt is a former newspaper reporter and editor who brings words to life for periodicals, corporate clients, fiction lovers and students of all ages. She has written articles for a variety of national and regional trade magazines and since 2010 has completed three novels in her Finding...
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Warren Heiti is a teaching fellow at the University of King's College.
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Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Michael Hennessey has published a novel, two non-fiction books and two collections of short stories. He has also had twelve plays produced, some of which have been performed across Canada.
Michael's poetry and short fiction have been published...
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"It's neat for kids to read about things, but the best thing is for them to muck around and discover things on their own." - Pam on why her books are activity-based
Pamela Hickman was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. She holds an Honours Bachelor degree in Environmental Studies...
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Andria Hill-Lehr is a freelance writer and author of two non-fiction books: Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe (2012) and A Mother's Road to Kandahar (Pottersfield 2008). She is an entertaining public speaker, and facilitates informative workshops on a...
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Maureen Hull was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. She studied at NSCAD, Dalhousie University and the Pictou Fisheries School. Before and during her formal education she worked in the costume department of Neptune Theatre. Since 1976 she has lived on Pictou Island in the Northumberland...
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Charlotte Hutchinson holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Dalhousie University. A former President of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia's Board of Directors, she worked for many years in personnel for the federal government and as a field technician for Environment Canada, as well...
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John J. Guiney Yallop is a parent, a partner and a poet. John was born (John Joseph Guiney) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He grew up on the island in a small outport community - Admiral's Cove. John wrote poetry as an adolescent and as a young adult. His earliest work was published...
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Martine Jacquot is a prolific writer who writes in French. She has published close to 30 books (novels, poetry, short-stories, essays and novels for young readers).
She has been invited to many literary events across Canada and abroad, namely to Lafayette's book festival during the 2nd...
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Joanne Jefferson has been passionately involved in the Nova Scotia writing community ever since she helped create Quod Libet, the QEH arts and literary magazine in 1981. She was a contributing editor with the Halifax-based newspaper, Pandora; a founding member of the Oxford Street Writers Group...
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Heather Jessup is the author of the novel The Lightning Field (Gaspereau Press) and teaches Creative Writing at Dalhousie University. Heather grew up in Vancouver and now lives in Halifax. Her poetry, fiction, and reviews have been published in journals across Canada and the United States. She...
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Sara Jewell has worked as a radio newscaster, freelance writer and high school substitute teacher. Currently, she is employed at The Oxford Journal, a weekly newspaper located in Cumberland County, NS, where she writes a column called "Field Notes" and a profile interview called "In...
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Dean Jobb is an associate professor at the School of Journalism, University of King's College in Halifax, where he teaches introductory journalism, newspaper production, and news reporting, writing and editing. A reporter, editor and columnist during a 20-year career at The Chronicle Herald, he...
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Originally from Kingston, Ont., K.V. Johansen studied English and History at Mount Allison, received a Master's in Medieval Studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and another Master's in English, from McMaster. Although she writes mostly fantasy and science...
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A.J.B. (John) Johnston is the author or co-author of a growing number of books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. In September 2012 his first novel, Thomas, A Secret Life was released by the Cape Breton University Press. In the spring of 2013 will...
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Writing and reading have always been a big part of Brad Kelln's life. From James & The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and Pierre Berton's The Secret World of Og as a child to ripping through Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston's fast-paced books as an adult, he has read continuously.
Brad's...
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About the Author: Karen Kelloway is so enthusiastic about the story of the real, fourth-century Saint Nicholas that she traveled to Turkey to personally experience where the former Bishop of Myra lived and worked.
Karen started her career writing freelance articles for...
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John C. Kennedy was born in Massachusetts in 1943 and immigrated to Canada in 1971 to conduct anthropological research in Labrador. Kennedy has a PhD from Michigan State University and taught anthropology at Memorial University between 1973 and his retirement as Professor in 2004. He and his...
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Jessica grew up on the Canadian prairies, and although she enjoyed school, she had a terrible secret. She was a lousy speller. This made it tough because she really liked to write. It turns out that a lot of writers can't spell, and Jessica figured this out when she got her first award for...
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Born in Chicago in 1943, Susan immigrated to Canada in 1966 and now lives in Halifax.
She has worked in a bookstore, the Killam Library at Dalhousie University, as a child care worker at St Joseph's Children's Centre, and in Child Life at the I.W.K. Grace Hospital for Children. She has...
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Stephen Kimber, the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of eight books, including one novel and seven non-fiction titles, as well as co-author of two other nonfiction books...
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Wendy is a Moncton-area writer, artist and graphic designer who believes everyone has a story and her favourite part of her job is unearthing that story ― whether by pen, by brush or by mouse.
Wendy has been a freelance writer since 2000, and has written over 200 articles for local,...
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Mariolina Koller-Fanconi (born 1933 in Milano/Italy of an Italian mother and a Swiss father) is a bilingual writer (German and Italian) and has now started to write in English. She is also fluent in French. She is a member of AdS, the Swiss Writers' Association.
Mariolina has given...
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William Kowalski is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction(HarperCollins) and four Rapid Reads for reluctant adult readers (Orca). His work has appeared on numerous international best-seller lists and has been translated into fifteen languages. His fifth work of literary...
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Robert E. Kroll was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1947. He graduated from Providence College in 1969. A Canadian citizen since 1975, Robert has been a resident of Halifax for the past thirty years.
Robert has written radio dramas for CBC Radio, a stage play (Cry for the Moon) for the...
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Several selections from Carole Langille's most recent book of poetry, Late In A Slow Time, have been adapted to music by renowned Canadian composer Chan Ka Nin. The production, also called Late In A Slow Time debuted at the 2006 Sound Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland and will be on Duo...
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James Leck has worked as a high school teacher in Canada, Japan, and Kuwait. The Adventures of Jack Lime (Kids Can Press) is the first book in a series of mysteries that will follow his teenage private eye, Jack Lime, as he solves mysteries in the fictional town of Iona. The...
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Don Ledger is a writer, researcher and the author of three books and numerous magazine articles dealing with aviation and the UFO phenomenon. He produced and edited an aviation newsletter for over 17 years, and currently participates in and/or runs workshops dealing with certain aspects of...
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For 20 years, Diane lived in Victoria, British Columbia, where she taught French Immersion and wrote books in both French and English. Upon her arrival on the West Coast, Diane had the incredible luck of living in Emily Carr's home for a year and amazingly, once again for her last year in...
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Kathy-Diane Leveille is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who discovered the only thing more thrilling than reading a great suspense novel is trying to write one. Her short story collection, Roads Unravelling (Sumach Press), was published to critical...
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Upon moving to Coldbrook, Sandra and Ron Lightburn learned that autumn not only brought the spectacular colours of fall, it also heralded the arrival of many special visitors to the Town of Kentville. These unusual townsfolk had large orange heads, cornstalk bones and lots of personality! They...
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Linda Little lives and writes in the north shore village of River John. Originally from the Ottawa Valley mill town of Hawkesbury, she lived in Kingston and St. John's before moving to Nova Scotia in 1987.
Linda has two award-winning novels, Strong Hollow and Scotch River. She has...
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Barbara Little was born and raised in the north of England and came to Canada with her eldest son and husband in 1968. Her second son was born in Canada. Before making her home in Nova Scotia, Barbara lived in both Alberta and British Columbia.
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Jerry Lockett has been writing about conservation, the environment, natural sciences, sailing and the oceans for more than 25 years. His magazine articles have been published in Canada, England and the USA. Credits include Atlantic Business Magazine, Atlantic Boating News, ...
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Bretton Loney is an award-winning former reporter, columnist and editor of The Daily News in Halifax and The Telegram in St. John's. Newfoundland. His journalism career began at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
He was born and raised in Bow Island, Alberta and has undergraduate degrees from...
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Jim was born in Liverpool, England in 1929. He was in the Royal Air Force from 1947-49. Jim spent some time as a trader in West Africa before coming to Canada in 1954. He did research in Labrador-Ungava and Ellesmere Island with scientific ventures from 1955 to 1960. Jim joined the Department of...
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Lezlie Lowe is a freelance writer, broadcaster and researcher.
The native Haligonian has worked as a writer and editor for Halifax weekly paper The Coast since 1995. She's also a Saturday columnist for the Chronicle Herald and a parenting columnist for CBC Radio's Mainstreet.
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Kathy Mac winters in Fredericton NB, where she teaches Creative Writing and English Literature at St. Thomas University, and summers in Sambro Head NS, where she tries to relax and write. Ha. Mac is currently working on a series of long poems on poets' vexed relations with popular culture,...
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Anne Louise MacDonald was born with a passion for horses and a vivid imagination. She has worked with animals all her life and currently works part-time caring for critters from fish to rats. The rest of her time is spent teaching natural horse and hoof care, enjoying her two horses and writing...
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Paul is the author of Distinction Earned, (2011) published by Cape Breton University Press. Paul researched the boxing era in Cape Breton and collected dozens of interviews from participants, enthusiasts and their heirs. The book's title is taken from a citation of Cape Breton boxers at...
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Virginia writes from her island home in rural Nova Scotia. Her freelance articles have been found in Atlantic Boating News, Rural Delivery, Shunpiking-MacTalla, and the Inverness Oran. Features in the Cape Bretoner, the East Nova Business Report, and the Participaper cover topics of immigration...
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Heather MacKenzie-Carey, the founder of Pixie Dust Healing, comes from a medical background and has worked as a health educator, paramedic, teacher, and in counselling and consulting capacities. Heather is the author of Melvin's Balloons. www....
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Don MacLean was born in Gabarus Lake on Cape Breton Island. He attended St.Francis Xavier University (BSc., 1976) and Memorial University (MSc., 1985). He works as a fisheries biologist in Nova Scotia.
Don writes on a variety of outdoor related topics as well as traditional crafts from...
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Jill MacLean has lived most of her life in the Maritimes, within walking distance of the sea. She graduated from Dalhousie University with an honours degree in biology, and subsequently worked at Dalhousie, the Fisheries Research Board, Mount Allison University and Sydney City Hospital. While...
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Allison Maher is a former manager of a company that invented "spy gear". She now resides on a small farm in rural Nova Scotia. I, The Spy is her first juvenile novel.
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Born in Ontario, educated in Montréal, Stephens Gerard Malone currently lives and writes on Canada's east coast, where he's written for a variety of media, including television and periodicals. In 1994, he published his first novel, Endless Bay (Mercury Press) under...
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Kathleen Martin was born in Toronto, lived in Sudbury, Ontario, until she was 12 and then moved to Spring Valley in Illinois, a place that has been home to her father's family for five generations. Her mother's family has been rooted in Halifax for almost as long, and although...
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Steven Mayoff is originally from Montreal, lived in Toronto for 17 years and has made Foxley River, Prince Edward Island his home since 2001. His fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines across Canada and the U.S.A. including Grain, the Malahat Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, the Dalhousie...
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Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in magazines in Canada, the United States and the U.K. She spent a decade outside of Canada living in Alaska and Georgia, as well as Norway and South Africa. She has taught classes on creativity and poetry at the undergraduate...
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Elaine McCluskey's novel, Going Fast, is being published in Spring 2009 by Goose Lane Editions in Fredericton. Her debut collection of short stories, The Watermelon Social, was published in the spring of 2006 by Gaspereau Press. The title story of that collection was a finalist in The Journey...
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As a writer of fiction, essays, musical theatre, radio documentaries and dramas, Ami is a dedicated artist who brings creativity and passion to her work. With over 15 years of experience in musical theater she has scored several productions, including The Clouds, Mother Courage, A Midsummer...
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Almost a decade ago, poet Susan McMaster and her husband Ian found a beautiful summer home in Minasville on the Fundy shore, where they now spend much of each summer, returning to Ottawa each winters. Susan was the president of the League of Canadian Poets (2011-12), and is the author or editor...
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Christina McRae lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Her poetry appears in many literary journals including Descant, Prairie Fire, Room of One's Own, Pottersfield Portfolio, and The Antigonish Review. Several poems also appear in Letting Go...
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Joanne Merriam is a Nova Scotian writer who lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband.
Her poetry has appeared in Third Wednesday, Stride Magazine, Four and Twenty, Alba, The Amethyst Review, andwerve, The Antigonish Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, Astropoetica, Big Toe Review,...
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Shandi Mitchell is an author and filmmaker. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a degree in English and Theatre. Her debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky was simultaneously published by Penguin Canada, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Harper Collins (US) in August 2009. It has sold in...
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Freelance writer; advice columnist, "OMG" - Saturday Arts & Life, Chronicle Herald; former associate editor, Saltscapes (Canada’s East Coast Magazine); former weekly columnist for the Halifax Community Herald.
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Membrane, Carol Moreira's new YA fantasy will be published by Fierce Ink Press on July 23, 2013. Her first novel, a YA story called Charged, was published by James Lorimer in 2008.
UK-born Carol has had an international career in journalism, having worked as a magazine and newspaper...
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Peter Moreira's controversial book Backwater: Nova Scotia's Economic Decline was the culmination of more than 30 years in journalism in Asia, Europe the U.S. and Canada. He was a Senior Correspondent in London with Bloomberg, and covered banking for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. A...
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Donna Morrissey is originally from The Beaches in Newfoundland. Donna left this small outport on the west coast of the island when she was sixteen. She studied at Memorial University in St. John's and lived in various parts of Canada before settling down in Halifax, where she now lives.
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Philip Moscovitch is a freelance writer, editor and broadcaster with a passion for telling stories and helping people and organizations communicate. He has written extensively for children, and about mental health, agriculture, pets, technology, and the arts. He also has a particular interest in...
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In grade two, Melanie received a silver dollar for winning an essay contest and she has been fascianted with writing ever since. She now lives in a tiny green house with a bright orange door. She lives with her husband, two daughters, one granddaughter, and a dog. The house if full but there is...
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David is the author of a children’s book called Archie the Pit Rat Hero published by Breton Books. He is currently working on his second book Archie the Pit Rat and the Christmas Bully with illustrator and friend Louise Brooking-McDow. Her they are at one of their many school...
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Carrie was born in Ontario and grew up in Cape Breton. A life-long love of words and word play earned her the nickname 'Vocabulary Carrie' in high school and she once dreamed of a career in journalism. Following university, she married, had two children and eventually settled in Dartmouth, Nova...
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A freelancer who specializes in nature non-fiction, Magi has published dozens of magazine articles and received the National Wildlife Federation's inaugural Trudy Farrand/John Strohm Award for excellence in magazine writing for children. With a B.Sc. in zoology and an M.Sc. in plant ecology,...
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Lorri Neilsen Glenn grew up in Western Canada and now lives and teaches in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and returns to Saskatchewan when she can. Her love both of the East Coast and the Prairies is evident in her collections of poetry, the most recent being Lost Gospels (Brick Books, 2010), and in her...
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Mark Oakley has lived all over Eastern Canada, Quebec, New Brunswick, Ontario and now in Nova Scotia. He currently lives in Wolfville, where he runs a small one-person comics and illustration studio. He has published many comics and graphic novels over the years, the largest project of which is...
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Sharon Gibson Palermo was raised in New Jersey, studied in Boston and Halifax, married a Canadian in 1975 and has since lived in Calgary, Toronto and Halifax. She holds an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education and an M.A. in Reading Education, with a thesis on doing philosophy with children. She...
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Mike Parker has been called Nova Scotia's Storyteller - a reference to the diversity of themes covered in his numerous books of popular history. In addition to personal research and writing, Mike contracts assignments and speaking engagements through Old Days-Old Ways Heritage Programs &...
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Daniel N. Paul, C.M., O.N.S., is an author, journalist, lecturer, reviewer, consultant, Justice of the Peace for the province of Nova Scotia, Commissioner of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, a member of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Chair of the Council on Mi'kmaq Education, and sits on...
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Joan Payzant has written...
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LeRoy Payne Peach writes poetry and non-fiction with a strong Maritime flavour. Born in Port Morien, his formative years were shaped by the culture and beauty of Cape Breton. LeRoy earned undergraduate degrees from Dalhousie before pursuing post-graduate studies at the University of Toronto. He...
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Jon Peirce has been writing for most of his adult life, and serving as a mentor and editor to other writers for the past 30 years. After graduating from Amherst College with a B.A. in English, Peirce worked as a reporter on the Springfield (Mass.) Union, then...
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Megan Power is a columnist for the Chronicle Herald and freelance writer for a variety of publications including Arts East and Inside Business. Megan has an MA in Creative Writing from Trinity University.
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Richard is from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. His enjoyment of the woods combined with contemporary issues form the basis of his writing. Richard is now concentrating on his poetry, which he believes is like a global adventure in a land without borders. His background as a miner, welfare officer,...
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Heather Pyrcz was born in B.C. and raised in Ottawa, Whitehorse and Churchill. She received a B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of Alberta, and an M.A. in English Literature from Acadia University. She has taught grades 2-6 and was an instructor and faculty consultant for the University of...
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Burnt like toast from a freelance writing career, Anna Quon faced the fact that she had always wanted to be a novelist and poet. She thought if she sat at her computer and wrote several hundred words a day she'd get there eventually... and she did. The first pages of her first draft took her to...
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Sherry D. Ramsey writes speculative fiction for both adults and young adults, has been the Editor/Publisher of The Scriptorium Webzine for Writers for over ten years, and is one of the founding editors of Third Person Press. Her short stories, articles, and poetry have appeared in print, online...
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Tim Reeves-Horton works with Lighthouse Media Group in a variety of creative roles including writer, video producer and education coordinator. Tim has screenwriting credits with National Geographic Channel, Parks Canada, Ontario Arts Council and more. Tim has received recognition for his...
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Darcy Rhyno writes fiction, non-fiction and plays. He is the author of two collections of short stories, Conductor of Waves and Holidays. He has a column with Saltscapes magazine called Roots and Folks and writes for the website www.lifeasahuman.com. He is a travel writer and a member...
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Philip Roy was born and raised in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He studied music and history before choosing a career in writing. Philip’s love for the ocean, enjoyment of travelling, and fascination for submarines has led to the...
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I am an artist, an author, and an award winning children’s picture book illustrator.
I paint acrylic landscapes plein air and in-studio, as well as many commissions. I am especially interested in historical material, picture book illustration and portraiture. I completed a commission for...
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Syr Ruus was born in Tallinn, Estonia during the Second World War. As a small child, she escaped with her mother to Germany and subsequently immigrated to the United States. She has an MA in English and MS in Education and taught in the English Department of Illinois State University. She has...
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Judith Hoegg Ryan is an author, curator, researcher, and oral historian. A graduate of the University of King's College with an Arts degree in English, Judith has done extensive research into industrial history, particularly for the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry in Stellarton, where several of...
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Eleonore Schönmaier's writing has won numerous awards including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and her story "Sidereal Time" was a Sheldon Currie Fiction Award winner. She's the author of the short story collection Passion Fruit Tea (Roseway Publishing) and the poetry...
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Alfred Silver has been a playwright, an actor and a songwriter, as well as a short-order cook, nude model and day labourer. He grew up in various places across the Canadian prairies. A former playwright in residence at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, he was a member of the Playwrights' Union of...
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Marjorie Simmins’ writing includes reportage, articles, memoirs, and evocative personal essays. She has also written book and restaurant reviews and profiles of every sort. Her essays – on such subjects as family, animals, coastal perspectives and aspects of rural and urban life, have appeared...
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Anne Simpson studied at Queen's University and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Now she lives in Antigonish, where she teaches part-time at St. Francis Xavier University. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library, the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie...
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After a number of years working with geriatrics and mentally handicapped children, Norene changed direction in the 1980's to focus primarily on the book industry. She has been a bookseller, editor, writer, teacher, book reviewer, book publisher, publicist, event organizer and cultural...
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Despite school years in Halifax (Dalhousie '63) and working years in Montreal (Dawson College) Ray Smith has always considered Mabou, Cape Breton, home. Retired from teaching in 2007, he now lives in Mabou in the house built by his grandfather - who also built as his store the building which is...
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Thea E, Smith's first novel, She Let Herself Go (ISBN 0-7862-3704-X), was published by Thorndike Press.
Before turning to fiction, Thea wrote and edited legal, technical, and scientific articles and books. For several years she was the author of the popular column "DFO on Science", which...
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Deborah Stiles was born and raised in Appalachia, in West Virginia, but found herself moving northward in 1988. A graduate of the University of Maine's M.A. in Creative Writing in 1990 with the thesis No Curtains on These Windows (a collection of short stories), she has published poems, short...
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Deannie Sullivan-Fraser loves to help children find and tell their own family stories. Deannie's writing centers on family and focuses on mainly on children. Johnny and the Gypsy Moth, published by Creative Publishing in St. John's, Newfoundland and illustrated by co-pilot Kathy HildaRose...
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Jon Tattrie is a freelance journalist and writer based in Halifax, Canada. He works for CBC.ca, Metro Canada, The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax Magazine and Progress magazine, among others. He's a board member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and regularly speaks at universities, colleges...
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Harry Thurston was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and grew up on the family farm. He holds a degree in Biology from Acadia University. He was formerly editor/publisher of Germination, and since 1977 has worked as a full-time freelance journalist, poet and playwright. He lives with his wife on...
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Born in the farmlands of New Jersey, Susan was interested in art from an early age. She spent her time drawing the natural world around her, playing in the woods, and helping her mother and grandmother with farm chores, feeding the chickens, milking cows and collecting the eggs. She was...
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Ryan Turner is a Halifax-based writer whose stories have been published in many of Canada's most recognized journals including Prairie Fire, filling station and The New Quarterly. In 2009, his short story collection, What We're Made Of, was published by Oberon Press and has since been...
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Michael Ungar, Ph.D., has worked for over twenty years as a Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist with children and families in child welfare, mental health, educational and correctional settings. Now a Professor at the School of Social Work, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada,...
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Julie Vandervoort writes creative non-fiction and memoir. She has worked with mentors Isabel Huggan (Humber School for Writers), Carol Bly and Philip Lopate (Vermont Studio Centre, creative non-fiction intensive) and David Carpenter (Sage Hill Writing Experience, advanced fiction program). She...
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Megan Venner is an award-winning journalist with nearly 20 years experience....
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Born in the woods of the North Canadian Shield and living in Nova Scotia for the last 35 years, Steve Vernon learned the story telling tradition from his grandfather. He has read on CBC radio, Breakfast Television, Global Noon and at schools and libraries across Nova Scotia. Steve's high voltage...
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Andrew was born in Toronto and has lived in NS since 1972. He is McCulloch Emeritus Professor in English, with a speciality in Canadian literature. His influences include Patrick White, Lawrence Durrell, and Bob Dylan. He has received Canada Council grants for poetry, fiction, and non-fiction....
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Alice Walsh graduated fron St. Mary's University with a degree in Criminology and English, and from Acadia with a master's degree in Children's Literature. She has worked as a preschool teacher, probation officer, creative writing instructor and hospital ward clerk.
Alice has written...
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Kate Watson is a freelance writer. She is the theatre critic for Halifax's alternative weekly newspaper The Coast. She is also a columnist and reporter for the Dartmouth/Cole Harbour and Halifax/Clayton Park weeklies.
She has written pieces for Our Children, Rural Delivery, Our Times, and...
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Gloria Ann Wesley is an African Nova Scotian educator and writer who holds the distinction of being the first published Black Nova Scotian poet having published her first book of poetry, To My Someday Child in 1975. Wesley’s poetry appears in three Canadian anthologies. Her work also includes...
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Budge Wilson was born and educated in Nova Scotia, but spent many years in Ontario, returning home in 1989, where she lives in a South Shore fishing village. She began writing later in life, after teaching and working as a commercial artist, photographer, and for over 20 years as a fitness...
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Author/illustrator Frances Wolfe worked in the Halifax Regional Library system for more than thirty years. Most of those years were spent in the Children's Services Department, where she became an accomplished storyteller, puppeteer and children's programmer. Frances has drawn inspiration for...
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Jo Ann is the author of the Canadian Children's Bestseller (Quill and Quire), The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines, a middle reader mystery.
Jo Ann grew up addicted to Nancy Drew mysteries and cryptoquotes. She has lived in the Maritimes all her life. As an avid lover of beachcombing and...
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Paul is a versatile author: adult novel: A Real Son of a 'Vitch; children's books: The Aussie Six in Canada, The Aussie Six in Australia, The Aussie Six in Spain, and The Weirdest Class; book of satirical essays:...
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"Keen unsparing observation expressed in palpable shimmering prose." - Jim Bartley, Globe and Mail
"Zettell has a passion for careful, sensuous detail. While reading the title story (Holy Days of Obligation), I held my breath." - Frances Itani
"Zettell writes with skill and understated...