Wendy Kennar is a mother, writer, and former teacher. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, both in print and online. You can read more from Wendy at her website, where she writes about books, boys, and bodies (living with an invisible disability). You can also find Wendy on Instagram. Continue reading
Category Archives: Featured Author
Featured SpAN Author: Nicole Lavigne
Nicole Lavigne has a BA in English and Theatre from the University of Ottawa. She still lives in Ottawa but considers all of Canada her home after bouncing across the country as a military brat during her childhood. She is a professional storyteller, published writer, Web & Logistics Coordinator for Can-Con, Co-Chair for the Ottawa … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: H.E. Casson
H. E. Casson (they/them) is a queer poet and performer whose words have been shared by Cast of Wonders, Lunate, The Quilliad, Serotonin, and Taco Bell Quarterly—among others. They are a Best of the Net nominee and have been selected for the Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2020 anthology. H. E.’s voice can be heard in the Moonbase Theta Out and … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Jen Desmarais
Jen Desmarais is the creator of the sex education game Blush, and co-author of the upcoming Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers (Fall 2022), also to be published by Renaissance. Co-founder of JenEric Designs, she creates unique geeky crocheted items. Her blog, The Travelling TARDIS, was nominated for the Prix Aurora Awards for four years in a row … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Michelle Butler Hallet
Michelle Butler Hallett, she/her, is a history nerd and disabled person who writes fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Her 2016 novel This Marlowe was longlisted for the ReLit Award and the Dublin International Literary Award, and her first novel, Double-blind, was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. You can follow Michelle … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Dianna Gunn
Dianna Gunn is a freelance marketing consultant, dark fantasy author, and an indie author community mentor. Dianna produces the Spoonie Authors Podcast and is the curator of the Twitter writing chat #WeeknightWriters, which happens every Thursday, 7:00 p.m. EST. (Once a month, she hosts #SpoonieAuthChat on Sundays at 1 p.m. EST with great marketing-based topics!) … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Jamieson Wolf
Jamieson Wolf is an award-winning, number one bestselling author of over sixty books and writer of Two Steps at a Time, a blog about having multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. In 2019, he released his gripping memoir, Little Yellow Magnet, followed by Love and Lemonade (the third book in the Lemonade Series), and his short story, The Descent, appears in … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Christina Robins
Christina Robins lives in Yellowknife, NWT, in the sub-arctic with her chef husband and five rescue cats. Her writing is about women who don’t always follow the rules society has set out. Christina wants her writing to encourage conversations about love, life, and how women survive in a world that bases their self-worth on whether they … Continue reading
Featured SpAN Author: Stephen Graham King
Born on the prairies, Stephen Graham King has since traded the big sky for the big city and now lives in Toronto. His first book, Just Breathe, tells the blunt, funny, and uncompromising story of his three-year battle with metastatic synovial sarcoma. Since then, his short fiction has appeared in the anthologies North of Infinity … Continue reading