Marie Lynn Hammond has written poetry, plays, short fiction, radio essays and non-fiction magazine pieces, as well as two screen plays as well as co-writing a YA novel. She is also an experienced editor. But her primary focus has always been song-writing. She released her latest CDs in 2013, entitled Hoofbeats and Creatures. She is directing and performing a staged reading of her play De Beaux Gestes/Beautiful Deeds at the Spirit of the Hills Festival of the Arts. on November 3rd 2017

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Jennifer Bogart believes there’s a spark of magic in every person, regardless of age or background. Her upper Middle Grade novels are written with bright and imaginative youth in mind. She has also written several novels she describes as women’s fiction.
Jennifer spends her days writing, editing, and caring for her very busy family. But now her children are older she is able to find time to run, with her associates, Morning Rain Publishing, and do more writing.

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Cait Lynch is the nutrition, fitness and momentum coach at Custom Fit Vitality  in Warkworh, Ontario. Delivering inspiration since 2004, Cait coaches men and women of all ages, from tweens to those 75+, on how to tap into the best of who they are so that they can thrive lifelong. Her book on this topic is called NOURISH and was published in 2016 by Blue Denim Press.

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Mark Finnan is the author of Oak island Secrets, The Sinclair Saga, The First Nova Scotian (Formac Publishing) and The Boy who Sailed to the Stars.His plays include, Once Upon Eternity, Way to Go, The Corktown Man, The Ballad of D’Arcy McGee, and Without the Shedding of Blood which was performed very successfully at Lang Pioneer Village , as was Words from the Wilderness. Other plays The Master and Demetrius and The Innkeeper’s Story have been performed in various theatres. Mark also wrote the TV Documentaries The Curse of Oak Island (A&E Television), The Sword and the Grail (History Channel).

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Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most varied and prolific crime writers. Under the name of Eva Gates, she has published 3 mystery series with Berkley Prime Crime, and her book, We Wish You A Murderous Christmas, published in November was the second in the Year Round Christmas series, published by Penguin Random house. Now she is embarked on yet a new cozy series, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series. The first volume Elementary she Read has just been published.

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James Ronson talks about his career as a writer, teacher and world traveller. His novel, Power and Possessions (Hidden Brook Press 2015) is crime fiction. In this novel, the high stakes of “The Computer Gaming World” overlap with the “Fine Art World” in Toronto. At the centre of the story is a romantic triangle turned deadly

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Gwyneth Hoyle after taking a degree in Maths and Science worked in Chalk River as a Human Computer, like the women recently celebrated in the movie Hidden Figures. For many years Gwyneth was the librarian at Peter Robinson College, Trent University. She always had an interest in the Arctic and canoeing and has written extensively about these. Now retired, she continues to research and write about northern subjects. In addition to articles on canoeing and the historic fur trade, she has written three books, Canoeing North into the Unknown, Flowers in the Snow, and The Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet.

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Carol Finlay is the founder and director of Book Clubs for Inmates. She was among 26 people announced as new members of the Order of Ontario on Dec. 15^th 2016. Carol is an ordained Anglican priest, a retired English teacher and her organization now has about 80 volunteers running reading groups in 28 prisons in all parts of the country.

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Jane Kelly is the founder and publisher of Watershed Magazine.

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