Member Directory
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Abdulrahman Matar
Writer and journalist from Syria, resident in Canada(ON) since 2015, poet and novelist. He worked in the culture & media in Syria and Libya. He is a researcher in Euro-Mediterranean relations, human rights and terrorism issues, and he is an activist on…
Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Carol Matas is the author of over forty-five books for children and young adults. She has written science fiction, fantasy, contemporary, and historical fiction. She often writes on Jewish themes, and is well-known for her books concerning the Holocaust. Her books have garnered…
Calgary
Calgary
Aviation adventures are featured in eight of Shirlee Smith Matheson's 21 published books (14 nonfiction for adult readers and seven young adult novels) as well as short stories and stage plays. She is an alumnus of The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and has instructed…
Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Ashleigh Mattern has been working as a professional writer since 2007, getting her start at the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper the Sheaf and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Today, she’s the co-owner of Vireo Creative Website Design & Marketing and co-owner of Play…
CHESLEY
CHESLEY
I’m the award winning author of the debut contemporary literary short story collection Took You So Long, published by the Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario mid-August 2022. In May 2023, Took You So Long received an IPPY 🥇GOLD (Independent Publishers Book…
Kingston
Kingston
Highly experienced, full-time freelance writer specializing in travel, lifestyle, and parenting topics. Specialize in covering low-impact ecotourism as well as soft adventures (kayaking, canoeing, snorkelling, rafting, hiking) as well as looking for the undiscovered side of…
Nelson
Toronto
Toronto
Biography Joseph Maviglia
In the great tradition of spoken word, performance poets and singer-songwriters, Joseph Maviglia is renowned for his energized musical performances, written text and non-fiction essays.
Born in Ottawa, he attended the prestigious Banff Centre for the…
Sudbury
Calgary/Canmore
Calgary/Canmore
Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book is The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021) won the BPAA Raymond Souster Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She is a…
Ottawa
Victoria
Vancouver
Vancouver
Most of my time is spent writing, 3D printing, and running a Dungeons and Dragons you can watch on YouTube or Twitch.
I have written book reviews for CM magazine and have taught countless workshops for schools, school divisions, libraries, University of British Columbia, BCLA,…
Langley
Fredericton
Fredericton
In her final term at high-school Kathy Mac lived in a boarding house because her family had moved to the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan; upon graduating she joined them, for several months working as a teaching assistant in a school for expatriates’ children in Tarbella…
Toronto
Halfmoon Bay
