andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and editor and the author of two travel guides, one book of poetry, and, most recently, the essay collection Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary (Arsenal Pulp Press), a CBC Books’ pick for the top Canadian nonfiction of the year, and one of Autostraddle’s best queer books of 2020.
Publications
Canoodlers [poetry] Nightwood Editions, 2014
Janette Fecteau is a poet and artist living in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of the Optional-Residency program in its first (and most radical) cohort. Attending the residencies provided an opportunity to go wildly astray with anarchists like Susan Musgrave, Zsuzsi Gartner, Tom Hansen, Tadzio Richards, and many other excellent sorts. Since then, Janette has been trying to write poems in between teaching Fine Art at StFrancis Xavier University and saving the world for democracy.
Roslyn Muir is an award winning screenwriter, story editor and producer. Her script, The Birdwatcher, an indie micro-budget feature in post production was funded by Telefilm; starring Camille Sullivan, Gabrielle Rose, and Garwin Sanford; director, Siobhan Devine, producer, Ines Eisses, Executive Producer, Alex Raffe. Her MOW thriller script, Anatomy of Deception, starring Natasha Henstridge, was produced in 2013 by Odyssey Media and Reluctant Witness starring Mia Kirshner, and Driven Underground in 2014. Her fourth MOW, Evidence of Truth, goes to camera in 2015. Roslyn’s feature comedy, Unravelled, is a winner of the Praxis Screenplay Competition and her drama Hold the Sky, has development funding from Corus Made with Pay and BC Film. She wrote and produced the short film, OMG, starring Gabrielle Rose, which premiered at VIFF in 2012, at Palm Springs in 2013, and was broadcast on CBC. Roslyn also story edits feature films, has worked on the W Network production, Smart Cookies, and analyzed scripts for Movie Central. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
Most of the time you can find Nikki at her desk spinning yarns. When she isn’t there, she’s out playing tennis, or maybe riding her bike.
Publications
Istanbul Review, Filling Station, Room Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, Infective Ink, Empty Sink Publications,
You Can’t Kill Me, I’m Already Dead (Anthology)
Behind the Yellow Wallpaper New Tales of Madness (Anthology)
Little Bird Writing Contest Runner Up and Honorable Mention 2012
Brandy’s highly anticipated first memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us, chronicles her journey with an aggressive, rare breast cancer at the age of 31. The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer and the subsequent demise of her marriage, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and survival during and after the Vietnam War. The book crosses borders, from rural, Amish-country Pennsylvania, where she’d grown up, to Vancouver, where Brandy lived with her parents, husband, and two young children while enduring aggressive chemotherapy, radiation, and a double mastectomy.
Brandy is currently working on a second memoir, which delves into the Vietnam War stories her parents and half-sister told while she was growing up and excavates deeply buried secrets of loss and regret. She is represented by Anne McDermid & Associates Literary Agency.
She lives in Vancouver with her husband, Anton, her three children, Chloe, Mylo, and Moxie, and their two cats, CBB and Zircon.
Joe Wiebe, the “Thirsty Writer” is the author of Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (Douglas & McIntyre, May 2013), the definitive guidebook to British Columbia’s burgeoning craft beer industry. The book was a B.C. bestseller in 2013 and won the Gourmand Award for Best Beer Book in Canada. A fully revised second edition will be published by Douglas & McIntyre in March 2015.
One of Canada’s top beer writers, Joe is working on a book about the history of brewing in Vancouver called Tales from Brewery Creek and has his sights set on a national beer book in the next couple of years.
Joe has been a freelance writer for 15 years, writing hundreds of articles a wide range of subjects including arts and culture, sports, business and travel, but since 2008, he has mainly written about craft beer with regular columns for the Northwest Brewing News, Vancouver View, UrbanDiner.ca and the BC Craft Beer News, as well as beer-soaked stories in BCBusiness, WestWorld, Beer West, Taps, Publican, NUVO, Taste and Boulevard. He also blogs for Tourism B.C.
Joe is a co-founder of Victoria Beer Week and he also gives seminars and lectures on the craft beer scene in British Columbia.
Joe has taught freelance writing at the University of Western Ontario and Douglas College (Print Futures program).
www.joewiebe.com / www.thirstywriter.com / www.craftbeerrevolution.ca
Publications:
Books (non-fiction):
Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (Douglas & McIntyre 2013; revised edition 2015)
Tales from Brewery Creek (Anvil Press, forthcoming in 2015)
Fiction:
Sunlight + Coloured Glass‚ (short story) in Half in the Sun anthology (Ronsdale Press 2006)
Lost and Found‚ (short story) in Wreck anthology, UBC (2005) & Rhubarb magazine (2008)
Non-Fiction:
Apricot Platz (literary memoir) in Geist (December, 2004) & Rhubarb (October, 2005)
Annabel Lyon is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing program at UBC. She’s the author of seven works for adults and children. Her newest book is a forthcoming YA novel entitled Nora in Paris.
Publications:
Oxygen
The Best Thing for You
All-Season Edie
Encore Edie
The Golden Mean
Imagining Ancient Women
The Sweet Girl
Cathryn Morris graduated from the University of Central Florida summa cum laude and Honors in Film in 2001. In 2010, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC in the non-residency program. From working in Canada’s Arctic to being politically evacuated from a small African dictatorship, Cathryn believes life experience and adventure are good prerequisites for being a writer. Cathryn focuses on writing for screen and television. She had success with her feature screenplay, Bleeding Kansas, which reached the top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowships in 2010, and works as a freelance Script Coordinator for various productions in the Lower Mainland. Presently, she is one of five writer-producer teams to have been chosen to develop her original television series, Fraud, with the National Screen Institute of Canada.
For more information about Cathryn see:
ca.linkedin.com/pub/cathryn-morris/b/2a9/73a/
Charles-Adam Foster-Simard grew up on the South Shore of Montréal and completed a BA in English Literature at McGill University. His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Millions, The Puritan, Prairie Fire, and Grain.
Prize winning author of 4 novels and occasional journalist. Contributing editor to Numero Cinq Magazine; Past president of PEN Canada; Academic Coordinator and Instructor at the Chang School of Continuing Education, Writing Workshops Department, Ryerson University, Toronto; Freelance Editor.
Publications
4 Novels: A Certain Mr. Takahashi; The Instructor; Exile; The Blue Guitar
A Certain Mr Takahashi made into a feature film: The Pianist
Feature interviews of artists for Canadian Art Magazine