A WRITER'S LIFE

Bill Arnott is the bestselling author of the suspense/thriller series The Gamble Novellas, all-ages Allan’s Wishes: Illustrated Edition, poetry collection Forever Cast in Endless Time, column-series Bill Arnott’s Beat, award-winning travel memoir Gone Viking: A Travel Saga, and the travelogue sequel Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries. He’s been awarded for prose, poetry, songwriting, and for his Gone Viking expeditions has been granted a Fellowship at London’s Royal Geographical Society. When not trekking the globe with a small pack, weatherproof journal and laughably outdated camera phone, Bill can be found on Canada’s west coast, making music and friends.

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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.  

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RC Weslowski is the author of My Soft Response to the Wars, his debut poetry collection with Write Bloody North Publishing.  RC is also a broadcaster, a podcaster, voice actor and clown plus Co Founder and Artistic Director for Hullabaloo: BC's Youth Spoken Word Festival.  RC is the 2016 recipient of the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award and former Poet of Honour for both the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the Victoria Spoken Word Festival.  RC is also Co Founder of Mashed Poetics a spoken word and music mash-up event that recently celebrated its 50th event since 2009.  RC is also co-host of Wax Poetic on Co Op Radio, a radio program dedicated to poetry and poetic pursuits.  

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Richard Till reads his poetry to audiences large and small at public venues in the UK, Alberta and BC. His poetry has a strong focus on nature but can veer off into pieces on social justice, war and irony. But for a few travel articles he has rarely been published but his poem The 6th of June received a $500 first prize (which came in handy at the time).

He describes his attempts at retirement as an abject failure. He still practices his trade as a metalworker and is known to take on projects ranging from marine construction and bridge building to ornate ironwork. He built, launched and sails his 36-foot sloop My Island that continually serves as a platform for film work and as an escort vessel for Tribal Journeys and other canoe voyages. From a young age he engaged in a life of all things outdoors. He has ice climbed, worked grassroots prospecting, built a log cabin in the mountains, co-developed an Adventure Based Counselling degree program and continues to support First Nations Land Based Learning initiatives including ethno-botany and guiding. 

His greatest love is for family and his growing clan of grandchildren.

 His novel Woven Deep is approaching completion.

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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.

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TANYA BOTEJU is a teacher and writer living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Part-time, she teaches English to clever and sassy young people. The rest of her time, she writes and procrastinates from writing. Her novel, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster, 2019), was named a Top Ten Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, as well as selected for the American Librarian Association 2020 Rainbow List. Her next YA novel, Bruised (Simon & Schuster, 2021), has been selected as a Gold Standard book by the Junior Library Guild. In both teaching and writing, she is committed to positive, diverse representation. https://tanyaboteju.com

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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. 

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Born, raised, and still residing in Vancouver, Daniel Kalla spends his days––sometimes nights, working as an Emergency Department Physician at St. Paul’s Hospital for the past twenty years. He has been the Emergency Department Head since 2013. He is a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

Daniel is the author of twelve published novels, which have been translated into thirteen languages. He has had two novels options for film, and his Shanghai trilogy is being developed for a TV series. In his twelfth novel, Lost Immunity, Daniel tackles the issue of vaccine hesitancy and the potential impact on a global outbreak, applying his real-life experience working on the frontlines through the COVID pandemic.

 Daniel received his B.Sc. in mathematics and his MD from the University of British Columbia, where he is now a clinical associate professor and the department head of a major urban ER. He is the proud father of two girls and a poorly behaved but lovable mutt, Milo.

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Debbie Bateman is a graduate of The Writer's Studio and a former teaching assistant in that program. Her work has appeared in Phoebe, Qwerty, and the "Shy Anthology" published by the University of Alberta Press. Two of her stories will be included in "You Look Good for Your Age", an anthology edited by Rona Altrows, coming out from the University of Alberta Press in May 2021. An earlier version of the story she will read from today was published in Issue 59 of descant. Debbie is currently querying publishers for her first short story collection and working on her second.

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http://phoebejournal.com/secret-workings/

https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/985-9781772125320-you-look-good-for-your-age

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Natasha J. Rosewood
Before immigrating to BC from the UK, Natasha traveled and worked internationally as a flight attendant, amassing five languages and acquiring extensive metaphysical knowledge. Since 1995, Natasha has evolved from spirit healer to Corporate Energy Dynamics Consultant. Her other skills include Author, Screenwriter, Intuitive Reader, Manifestation Coach, Ghostbuster, Past Life Regressionist, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator, Fundraiser, TV and radio personality.  “My intention is to help my clients experience joy.” Her three books: Aaagh! I Think I’m Psychic (And You Can Be Too), Aaagh! I Thought You Were Dead (And Other Psychic Adventures) and Mostly True GHOSTLY Stories are enlightening, empowering and entertaining. “Love your books. Can’t put them down!”  Her latest books, a sequel entitled Flight of Your Life - Short Haul and Flight of Your Life - Long Haul, is in the process of attracting the right publisher.

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