A WRITER'S LIFE

David Wiseman lived and worked in Oxfordshire most of his adult life but in recent years he has spent more time in Canada and became a permanent resident there in 2016. He currently lives on the unceded territories of the Mi'kmaq people in Nova Scotia in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

Lifelong interests include maps, reading, writing, travel and photography. And for the last 25 years, genealogy.

In 2009 in conjunction with close friend Neil Evans he produced The Further Bank, a memoir of photographic expeditions around the landscape of the upper Thames. A Habit Of Dying was his first published full-length novel. It was followed in October 2012 by The Subtle Thief Of Youth – another mystery story but quite unconnected to the themes of A Habit Of Dying. In 2016 he returned to those themes with his third novel,The Death of Tommy Quick And Other Lies. 2019 saw the publication of Casa Rosa, a story with a different setting but returning to some familiar themes. He is currently working on a fifth novel, expected to be published in 2020/2021.

DJ Wiseman also edited and contributed to the Askance short story anthology Positional Vertigo published in October 2012. More recently his short fiction Unforgettable has won the Retreat West flash fiction award and Double Aspect won The Ghost Storyaward in autumn 2018. Mystery Weekly, Geist Magazine and Moose House featured stories in 2019 and he has been a finalist for several prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Short Story prize.

Further information, including other writing and outlines of family history, may be found on the author’s own web site.
http://djwiseman.ca
https://askancepublishing.wordpress.com/authors/dj-wiseman/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3012342.D_J_Wiseman
https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/dec19news.htm#CasaRosa
http://www.theghoststory.com/double-aspect
https://www.facebook.com/DJ-Wiseman-372292326195720
https://djwiseman816374974.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/a-reading-year-2021/

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Claire Finlayson lives and writes on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC. After a 25-year career working as a jewellery designer, she now writes full time. She has been writing for as long as she can remember, as an essayist and occasionally as a journalist. Her passion is narrative non-fiction Dispatches from Ray’s Planet, A Journey through Autism, published by Caitlin Press, is her first book.

Claire served for ten years on the board of directors of Sechelt’s Festival of the Written Arts, the last three years as vice president. The Festival, Canada’s longest running literary event, was founded by her mentor, Betty Keller. Claire has been asked to appear as one of the Festival’s “New Voices” in August of this year.

http://www.clairefinlayson.com

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Christina Alagaratnam is a writer from South London.

She studied at the University of Westminster and graduated with a BA in English Literature & Creative Writing in 2014 and with an MA in Creative Writing the following year. Christina’s plays have been performed at the Brighton and London fringe festivals to four star reviews. She also had a performance of her play 'Face to Face' performed at Linklaters law firm, for a special diversity event.

Last year, Christina published a short story called ‘Sanctuary’ on Amazon Kindle. She also launched her own podcast called, ‘The Night Writer’ which can be found on Spotify, Anchor FM and YouTube. https://chrissysnotebook.com/?fbclid=IwAR00xstVLdfiOlLCP88ymtQ8XKzSXv44Q2fnbfV9jP_UrCuBgafhRXCaGMA
https://chrissysnotebook.com/podcast/
https://twitter.com/ChrissyA_92
https://twitter.com/Face2FacePlay

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Meaghan Marie Hackinen is a writer and ultra-endurance cyclist from British Columbia's West Coast. Her two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Meaghan is a Trans Am Bike Race, NorthCape4000, and Paris-Brest-Paris brevet finisher, as well as the 2019 24-Hour World Time Trial Champion and current course record holder in the Women’s Division.

Meaghan’s writing explores relationships, experiences on the road, and encounters with wild places. She is the author of South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (NeWest Press, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (non-fiction) as well as a 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Award (trade non-fiction). Meaghan has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and lives on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan People in the Okanagan Valley.

https://newestpress.com/authors/meaghan-marie-hackinen
https://meaghanhackinen.com

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Stella Harvey was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Calgary as a child with her family. Stella founded the Whistler Writers Group, which each year produces the Whistler Writers Festival and other literary programming under her direction. For her substantial contribution to the literary arts in Whistler, Stella won the Champion of Arts and Culture Award given by the Whistler Chamber of Commerce. Stella is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine, The Question and the Globe and Mail. She currently lives with her husband in Whistler, but visits her many relatives in Greece often, indulging her love of Greek food and culture and honing her fluency in the language. Signature Editions published her first novel, Nicolai's Daughters, in 2012 and Psichogios Publications of Athens published the Greek translation in 2015. The Brink of Freedom was published in October 2015. Finding Callidora is Stella's third novel.
Finding Callidora was released in October 2019. Look for it in all independent bookstores, Signature Editions, Amazon, and Chapters Indigo.
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/instructors/e-h/stella-harvey.html
http://stellaharvey.com
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-arts/stella-harvey-writes-most-personal-novel-yet-2509713
https://festival.whistlerwritersfest.com/harvey-stella/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG0mxnBrb8M

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