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Joy Norstrom (she/her) is a fiction writer and social worker residing in Treaty 7 Territory. She writes for both children (Marjorie Magic, 2023) and adult audiences (Flying the Nest, 2020; Out of Play, 2016). Her stories feature current social issues while exploring themes of identify...
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Precious is a poet and speculative fiction writer. She writes through the lens of a Filipino Canadian settler in Mohkintsis/Calgary. Following her stint as a business journalist and editor in the Middle East, her creative writing journey started with the 2019 Borderlines Writers Circle...
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Tammy Lyn Carbol has been a member of Alberta Romance Writers' Association (ARWA) since 2000, and is currently President. She loves the writing community and friends she has met over the years, and enjoys giving writing presentations on the craft of writing, She has published stories...
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Michael Gillett is currently president of IFWA, and as such feels tremendous pressure to write more. As a recently retired worker bee, he is indeed writing more, and has multiple short stories published (with an Aurora nomination for one of them) along with his first novel : The Collection...
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Ellen began telling herself stories in her head as a bored teenager. It wasn't until she was a bored mother of two that she began actually writing her stories down in a permanent way. All of her tales involve love and romance, with a good dollop of adventure and a touch of the Divine...because...
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