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Bate, Alison
Alison Bate is an experienced editor and journalist currently writing for both online and print publications. She worked for nine years at The Vancouver Sun and has also edited two maritime magazines and run a 100-page non-profit website. Her freelance work has appeared on CBC Radio and in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, BCBusiness, Marine Digest, The Journal of Commerce, Maritime Magazine, and numerous international business publications. See http://www.alisonbate.ca/
Braund, Susanna
Some know Susanna Braund as Professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception at UBC, others know her as bass player with Bowen bands Deer In The Headlights and Taken. She has written, edited or coedited fourteen academic books and her lectures on Virgil's Aeneid are available on Stanford's iTunes. While teaching at Stanford, she had a regular radio show KZSU called Old, New, Borrowed and Blues which featured a regular item called Myth Made Modern.
Bosshard, April
April has facilitated numerous writing groups and classes for both adults and young adults. She also works with writers as an editor and a coach. Her goal is to encourage and inspire writers to pursue their creative dreams. She lives with her family on Bowen Island and is presently at work on a fantasy novel for young adults.
Browne, Jill
Jill Browne is an editor and writer for the Vancouver-based online magazine Suite101.com. Jill edits all the articles in Outdoor and Recreation, and Science and Nature, and enjoys writing for Suite101, especially about travel. Elsewhere, she has been researching the lives of German prisoners of war held in Canadian camps during the Second World War.
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Cameron, David
David Cameron is a playwright and author of short stories for young readers. His produced plays include Mad Mabel’s Christmas, La Vita Grande, The View, and A Womb With A View. His published children’s stories are Ali And The Water Tank, One Fine Day, Cheryl: What Goes Around, Comes Around and Mad Mabel’s Christmas.
David and his wife, Jackie Minn are co-artistic directors of Kingbaby Productions. http://www.kingbaby.com/
Cram, Carol
Carol is the author of over 40 textbooks on computer applications, business communications, and Internet-related subjects for college-level courses. She is also a training and communications consultant. As a faculty member at Capilano University for 20 years, Carol has coordinated programs in ABT and Continuing Education and chaired the Professional Development Committee. On Bowen Island, Carol is the president of the Bowen Island Arts Council.
Charles, Norma
Norma Charles has taught Creative Writing in the Continuing Education Department at UBC and given workshops and readings in schools and libraries locally, across Canada and in the USA. In addition to three picture books, Norma has written fifteen novels for children including Sophie Sea To Sea (Beach Holme) which won the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award, The Accomplice (Raincoast) which was nominated for the Sheila Egoff award in 2002, and All The Way To Mexico (Raincoast), winner of the 2005 Chocolate Lily Award. Her latest novel, Chasing A Star is about a girl trying to track down the famous figure skater Olympic star, Barbara Ann Scott.
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Daniell, Amanda
Amanda Daniell is an independent animal activist who uses creative writing through her blogs, website, professional letter writing, articles, poetry and meditations. Amanda has been touched by the compassion of all animals since the age of three and now advocates locally and globally for all sentient life. She co-hosts an online radio show where she interviewed Paul Watson from the Sea Shepherd Society. She is a columnist for WFL Endangered Stream Live, a talk show for animal protection.
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Euringer, Amanda
Amanda Euringer moved from theatre to writing in 2000 because, believe it or not, the pay was better. Amanda has been a dramaturge with Playwrites workshop in Montreal, a freelance writer, has published works of fiction, and was one of the writers in residence at the Youth Writers Festival in Vancouver in 2005. Currently, Amanda is health reporter for Enterprise magazine, and is the winner of one of the Tyee's fellowships for Investigative journalism.
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Faragher, Nick
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Jan Furst was a retired Naval Architect and Marine Engineer in British Columbia, Canada. Born in Oslo, Norway in 1913 and educated at the University of Danzig (now Gdansk) he worked in the Shipbuilding Industry in Norway and Canada for many years, then as a consultant to the offshore oil and marine industries in Canada, Indonesia, United States and Bahamas. He was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Disaster and now volunteers for marine related activities. He has an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland.In 1931 he published his first book: “Kajakksport og Kajakkbygging,” a treatise on the construction and use of kayaks. He has a life-long interest in old Norse sagas and pre-Columbian North American history and culture. This was followed by Jans first novel, Thorfinn Thorhallson's Saga, following Norse Viking Thorfinn, named after Thorfinn Karlsefni, as he adventures through Greenland, Norway and North America answering the mysteries of the Kensington Stone and the Mandan Tribe. Jans second novel, Ultimate Downsizing, is an extrapolation into the future of present trends in all human activities on our Planet Earth, including, but not limited to Business Operations, Trade, Technical, Medical and Environmental Developments, and Social Conditions.
Jan was a member of the Canadian Authors Association, Vancouver Branch, and a member of the Toastmasters and Vancouver Society of Storytellers. He has also written a few unpublished fairy-tales and poems.
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Grescoe, Audrey & Paul
Paul Grescoe & Audrey Grescoe are veteran editors, journalists and authors of books on business, trees, and cruise ship travel.
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Haley, Heather
Poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines, genre and media. Published in numerous journals and anthologies, her writing has been described as “supple and unusual, brawny and uncompromising.” Haley was an editor at the LA Weekly, publisher of Rattler and the Edgewise Cafe, one of Canada's first electronic literary magazines. Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, her own works have been official selections at dozens of international film festivals. She is the host and curator of SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse at Pacific Cinémathèque, North America's sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant poetry video and film. An accomplished performer, Haley has shared her poetry and music with audiences around the world. Most recently she toured eastern Canada and the U.S. in support of her critically acclaimed AURAL Heather CD of spoken word songs, Princess Nut. For more info please visit my website: http://www.heatherhaley.com/
Hanen, Edythe (Edye)
Edythe (Edye) Anstey Hanen has published poetry and short prose in Grain, Alberta Poetry Yearbook, Prairie Fire and Lived Experience: A Literary Journal from the Mountains of British Columbia. She has also published the coffee table book Bowen Island: Reflections under the auspices of the Bowen Island Historians. She has written historical pieces for the GVRD including The History of Snug Cove, The History of the Causeway and The History of the Orchard Cottages.
Mostly known as writer, manager and editor for the Bowen Island Undercurrent newspaper for 17 years, she now dedicates her life full time to writing and travelling. She is currently working on a novel set in Vancouver and Mexico.
Edye was the first prize winner in the Federation of BC Writers' creative non-fiction competition September, 2010 for her story The Heart Box. It is published in the Federation's quarterly magazine WordWorks.
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Keath, Fraser
Keath Fraser's memoir The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat was published in 2002. He is editor of Bad Trips (Vintage) and Worst Journeys: The Picador Book of Travel. His novel Popular Anatomy is a past winner of the Chapters / Books in Canada First Novel Award. A selection of stories from three previous volumes, including B.C. Book Prize winner and Governor General award nominee, Foreign Affairs, appeared in 2005 as 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser.
Klann, Andrea
Andrea Klann is a writer, painter and illustrator. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book and preparing for her next painting exhibition in 2010. She has written for Canada’s National Post and Georgia Straight (Canada), worked for The Guardian & Observer and the Scottish Herald in London (UK) and The Economist Intelligence Unit (Australia). She is the web pioneer who created the irreverent RedIguana webGuide to Vancouver, in 1997. Andrea and her family are known on Bowen as"those crazy people who barged an old bungalow from Port Moody to Bowen Island". To view her artwork: http://www.eaklann.com/
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LeBel, Pauline
Pauline Le Bel is an international award-winning screenwriter (Emmy-nomination, Cable ACE Award), an award-winning novelist, a playwright, a book editor, and a singer/songwriter with three CDs of her original songs. Her most recent (and most surprising) publishing achievement was the inclusion of her paper on cosmology in a scientific journal. www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html
Lever, Bernice
Bernice Lever, who gets high on words, launches her 2009 book, GENERATION, Black Moss Press. A poet with 8 previous poetry books, including, “Never A Straight Line”, 2007, she has also written a college textbook and other non-fiction works. Living on Bowen and retired from college English teaching, she gives editing and marketing advice, and writing workshops. She enjoys performing her poems and prose pieces as she has read on 5 continents. Best known as editor of WAVES, a literary magazine from 1972-1987, Bernice has won awards for her poems, such as the Wm. Henry Drummond poetry prize, 2008. She continues to write on this peaceful island. In August, 2009, she was involved in the filming and promoting of the UBC summer poetry workshop, 1963, both at UBC and SFU.
In 2004, she received CAA’s Allan Sangster Award for service to other writers; in 2007, the Special Achievement Award at the Surrey International Writers Conference from the Surrey Board of Trade, and in 2008, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vancouver Public Library and World Poetry Reading Series. Bernice is a Life member of the Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Poetry Association and The Ontario Poetry Society as well as an active member of the BC Federation of Writers and North Shore Writers. She now has provincial and national executive positions with the CAA, just as she did with the League of Canadian Poets in Toronto in 1990’s. Currently, she is E-Writer-in-Residence for both CAA branches of Vancouver and Ottawa. www.colourofwords.com
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Maclean, Don
Don has come to fiction writing after 35 years in theatre and film. His playwriting was produced mainly by his company when he was touring Alberta. Recently, Pacific Yachting published two of his sailing adventure stories. Currently Don is shopping his completed novel, a mystery thriller, Watertight.
Manfield, Lisa
Lisa Manfield has worked in print and online publishing for 13 years. Currently the Managing Editor at Orato.com, she has also held the position of as Marketing Manager at The Tyee, Business & Finance and Mind & Soul editor at Suite101.com, Associate Editor at CGA Magazine and Editor of REALM Magazine. She is also a Contributing Editor for Backbone Magazine, and consults for clients on print and online content, marketing collateral, and courseware. She teaches "Writing and Editing for the Web" and "Marketing Magazines Online" for SFU's Writing and Publishing Program and Summer Workshops.
Manson, Ainslie
Ainslie is the author of eleven books for young people: three biographies, three picture books, three history connected stories, and two novels. In addition, she has given hundreds of talks and readings in schools across Canada and in the U.S., and even in England and Uganda. Ainslie has also facilitated workshops for adults who wish to write for children. www3.telus.net/ainsliemanson
Morton, Adam
Adam Morton has been writing philosophy for thirty years, with seven books and eighty articles to his credit. He has also produced a small amount of poetry and fiction. His work ranges from one page articles to books of three hundred pages. He has advised student writing from first year to PhD, and has taught seminars on philosophical writing. One difficult problem that interests him is how the technique of writing varies with the subject matter. He holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta.
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Nicholson, Cynthia
A Bowen resident since 1980, Cynthia Nicolson is a teacher and writer with a passion for helping kids learn about math and science. Cynthia has written 16 information books for children, including Exploring Space, winner of the American Institute of Physics annual science writing award. Cynthia has taught at both the elementary and university levels. This year, she will retire from close to 20 years of classroom teaching at Bowen Island Community School. In the future, Cynthia hopes to continue to be involved in the school's award-winning environmental education program and to explore fiction and non-fiction writing.
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Ondaatje, Michael
Michael Ondaatje is a part time resident of Bowen Island. He was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and moved to England with his mother in 1954. After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's work has also encompassed autobiography, poetry and film. A semi-fictional memoir of his Sri Lankan childhood is called Running in the Family (1982). He has published thirteen books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for two of them, namely The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973-1978 (1979).
He is also known for five other works of fiction:
Anil's Ghost — winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award.
The English Patient — winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canadian Governor General's Award
and later made into a motion picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In the Skin of a Lion — winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for
best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002.
Coming Through Slaughter — Winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award
Divisadero — Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.
In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. http://michaelondaatje.com/
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Robinson, Spider
Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and countless other international and regional awards. Most of his 36 books are still in print, in 10 languages. His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies. The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans and its many internet offshoots, inspired by his Callahan’s Place series, for many years constituted one of the largest non-porn networks in cyberspace.
In 2006 he became the only writer ever to collaborate on a novel with First GrandMaster of Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein, posthumously completing VARIABLE STAR. That same year the Library of Congress invited him to Washington D.C. to be a guest of the First Lady at the White House for the National Book Festival. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.
Spider was born in New York City in 1948, and holds a Bachelors degree in English from the State University of New York. He was regular book reviewer for Galaxy, Analog and New Destinies magazines for nearly a decade, and contributes occasional book reviews to The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, for which he wrote a regular Op-Ed column from 1996-2004. As an audiobook reader of his own and others’ work, he has won the Earphones Award and been a finalist for the Audie, and his podcast Spider On The Web has appeared online weekly since September 2007. In 2001 he released Belaboring the Obvious, a CD featuring original music accompanied by guitar legend Amos Garrett. He has written songs in collaboration with David Crosby and with Todd Butler.
He has been married for over 30 years to Jeanne Robinson, a Boston-born writer, choreographer, former dancer and teacher. She was founder/artistic director of Halifax's Nova Dance Theatre during its 8-year history. The Robinsons collaborated on the Hugo- Nebula- and Locus-winning Stardance Trilogy, concerning zero-gravity dance. Jeanne is now writing, producing and choreographing a film, STARDANCE, with producer/co-director James Sposto.
Spider and Jeanne met in the woods of Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, and have lived for the last two decades in British Columbia (Now on Bowen Island), where they raise and exhibit hopes. www.spiderrobinson.com
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Segal, Dale Adams
Dale Adams Segal has loved stories and words since childhood. She has been "storying" all of her life. As a child she would dream her books and recite them to parents and friends whenever they would listen. She received her university degrees in theatre and dramatic arts. In 1979 she began to write professionally for television and undertook further study about the healing potential of "storying." She has been facilitating writing workshops in community and healing centers, medical clinics, and colleges since 1993.
In 1995 she opened her own writing studio, The Writing Tables in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. To date, she has accompanied hundreds of writers and individuals. She has worked with those who, surviving such traumas as the Holocaust, illness, pain, and loss, have discovered access to the meaning of their stories and their deep worth. She has worked with writers who wished to publish and published writers who wished to write more. She has written award winning television for children's and family education. In 2001 in response to her students' many requests. she published, The Hour Stories: An Inspirational Technique for Writing Story, the essence of her teaching.
She is the mother of two beautiful daughters and the grateful friend of many. Currently residing in Canada with her husband, she continues to facilitate writing story in group and private practice, offering workshops and retreats in her studio as well as outside of it. She is presently working on two more books about writing, The Courage to Craft and Under the Belly of the Dragon: The Hero's Journey and is completing her first novel, The Gobelin's Secret.
Sondhi, Amrita
Amrita resides on Bowen Island and is a certified yoga instructor. She paints in acrylics, oils, and watercolor and enjoys experimenting with a variety of mediums. She is also the author of ‘The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook’ 2006 (now in its third printing) and founder of Movement Global Design (www.movementglobal.com) providing cutting edge yoga lifestyle clothing in sustainable fibers. http://amritasondhi.com
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Nick emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 1979 and has also lived, worked and travelled in many different countries including Greece, Italy, Costa Rica and the south of France. These locales inform and inspire the fiction in his first collection of short stories The Well and Other Stories published by Thistledown Press in 2008. Nick's writing also draws on his experiences working in probation and parole. He was a chairing member of the Ontario Parole Board for a number of years and taught criminology at Centennial College in Toronto. Nick has written articles for national, provincial and local magazines and newspapers and cartoons for Regional newspaper. www.nickfaragher.com
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- Red by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas October 2009
- Generation by Bernice Lever September 2009
- Chasing A Star by Norma Charles August 2009
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