The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick is a non-profit organization which represents writers in all disciplines and at all levels of development. WFNB currently boasts over 250 members.
born and raised in the densely populated Netherlands, my mid-life crisis resulted in an escape to the wide open spaces of Canada. Small wonder that Canada's natural spaces keep popping up in my writing. No better place than nature to retrieve the daily wonder and joy experienced in childhood, which can easily slip away over the years...if we let it. Memberships: Don Kelly is a retired science teacher, outdoor education coordinator and science consultant from Oromocto, New Brunswick. He is a founding member of the William Brydone Jack Astronomy Club (Fredericton), The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – New Brunswick Centre and Science East, Inc. He has earned his Explore the Universe and Messier observing certificates from the RASC and is working on his Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing certificate. He currently chairs the RASC – New Brunswick Centre’s Education Committee and is a past member of the national RASC’s Education Committee. His BSc major is Geology and his MEd major is Curriculum and Instruction (UNB). He has sung in choirs and choral groups over the past 44 years (The Yukon Choral Society, Oromocto United Church Choir, Gilbert and Sullivan Society – Fredericton, and Oromocto’s Lintuhtine Harmonies). children’s literature, film & television; nature writing, story-telling (see website for more personal info) Publications: Andrea Kikuchi is a writer and teacher. Born and brought up in Hampton, New Brunswick, she graduated from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) with a degree in Politics. She also received her diploma in Community Services from the Nova Scotia Community College. She was a counsellor in several capacities, working with youth and in career education. In 2003, she found herself an unemployed career counsellor. It was then that she decided to travel. She spent over two years teaching English in Japan and has written about her experiences. Her creative non-fiction Japan and the Police was published in the Tokyo Notice Board. In 2006, she took a leave of absence from teaching and moved to Prague, Czech Republic. There, she received her certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language from the Czech Ministry of Education and has often used Prague as a setting for her short fiction. Currently, she is writing her first novel "Heaven's Joke" in an attempt to revive noir fiction. Andrea lives in Saint John, New Brunswick teaching academic English at the UNB. She lives with her husband and two children. Memberships: Publications: The time of the greatest quiet Japan and the police Wendy is a writer, artist and graphic designer who believes everyone has a story and her favourite part of her job is unearthing that story ― whether by pen, by brush or by mouse. Wendy has been a freelance writer since 1999, and has written over 200 articles for publications such as Reader’s Digest, the Globe & Mail, and More. Wendy is the author of Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar (Nimbus Publishing, 2011), a non-fiction book for 7-12 year-olds; and a co-author of Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read (Goose Lane Editions, 2009), an anthology on literacy. For five years, Wendy wrote a weekly children's book review column for The New Brunswick Reader (the Telegraph Journal) and was a regular contributor of middle grade and YA book reviews to the Globe & Mail Books. For two consecutive years, she was on the judging committee choosing the best in Canadian kid's lit for Our Choice (now Best Book for Kids & Teens), an annual publication of the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Wendy has extensive corporate communications experience, mainly from her contract work with the Canadian government. She’s written everything from news releases; to investment brochures selling Atlantic Canada to the world; to speeches for federal ministers. Wendy loves to work with children and for three years, ran an after-school literacy program for at-risk children, K-6, for the Greater Moncton YMCA. She does a lot of school visits and has been a member of New Brunswick’s Writers-in-the-Schools Program, (WISP), since 2002, and Nova Scotia’s Writers-in-the-Schools, (WITS), since 2012. Wendy facilitates writing, illustration, and art workshops for both children and adults. Wendy has a diploma in digital publishing, as well, and designs creative marketing materials such as logos, business cards and brochures. Memberships: Prior to my retirement, middle management positions in prison nursing required the writing of numerous manuals over the years. For our five children, I have produced a book of my children’s rhymes and other musings. I am now immersed in writing the memoirs of the first fourteen years of my life. Memberships: Publications: Interests: Memberships: Publications: And about forty years worth of book reviews Love anything to do with the outdoors, fishing, four wheeling, hiking. I have 3 kids and 3 horses, who could ask for more? I wish I had more time to write, but as it stands I write when I have time... If you wish to know more about me you can catch me on my blog on http://www.localintheknow.com and if I have nothing current just Google my name and read my past articles on my Local Impact column. Memberships: Charlotte worked 20 years in the federal government to then to return to school to obtain a bachelor of applied science in nutrition. Defeating her own health challenges with heavy metal toxicity, she put her focus on helping her son in dealing with schizophrenia. In 2001 she opened a nutrition clinic and enjoyed helping others with their health. In 2011 she published the story of her son's life and how he overcame schizophrenia. Charlotte is a mental health advocate. She enjoys giving public and corporate workshop on different health topics. Her hobbies are writing, biking, reading, kayaking, snowshoeing and traveling. Director of Creative Writing at University of New Brunswick; Editor of The Fiddlehead; Poetry Editor for Goose Lane Editions. I was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. I went to McGill for my BA in English and Philosophy. After a one-year teaching diploma at University of Alberta, I taught high school for two years in Morin Heights, in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec. I spent two years running a small literary journal called Montreal Writers' Forum, and then took my MA in Creative Writing at Concordia University. I went to the University of Toronto for my PhD and wrote a dissertation on Wallace Stevens. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship followed at Princeton University in New Jersey, where I worked on John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop. I taught at University of Toronto on a three-year contract, then helped open the University of Northern British Columbia, where I taught for three years. In 1997 I came to UNB and I have been here ever since. I am of New Brunswick Loyalist descent on my mother's side. My major hobby is talking with people. Memberships: Publications: Co-Editor: Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada Born in 1942 in Lafayette, Indiana, grew up in California and Indiana, and came
to Canada in 1969. For many years a bookseller, in Halifax and Moncton, still
with a small stock on the internet. Principal organizer for the Attic Owl Reading Series. One of the founders of the Frye Festival, and for 12 years co-chair of the program committee, responsible for English language programming. On the committee planning Frye centenary activities in 2012. Memberships: WFNB I was born and raised in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. My writing life started in middle school. I was an active member of a Creative Writers group while in University. I entered contests and worked hard at establishing myself as a poet. During that time I was chosen to read during the University’s Arts and Letters competition two years in a row, and I received an honourable mention in the Gregory J. Power Poetry awards. I stopped writing between 1995 and 2004, quite a long period of writer’s block, I suppose. I graduated from Memorial University with an English/Religious Studies joint major in 1995, and worked and travelled throughout Canada for a short time. I returned to Memorial University in 1999 to complete a degree in Education, I spent the following five years working as a teacher in different provinces, before moving to New Brunswick in 2004. I have recently completed a poetry manuscript and I am currently working on a deeply spiritual novel. Memberships: Publications: Published in the anthology: Once on a Tuesday Night, 1995 Born in 1936 in East Chicago, Indiana, degrees from Indiana University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, taught high school English in Gary, Indiana, and Washington, D.C., worked in many coalitions for gay rights, peace with justice, moved to Sackville in 1996, formed the Sackville Writers' Group and Roving Poets, taught creative writing at Westmoreland, Springhill and Dorchester prisons, is teaching Memoir with the Tantramar Senior College, served as president of the WFNB from 2006 to 2010. Three poetry publications: Member of the League of Canadian Poets, Council of Canadians. Kathy-Diane Leveille is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her debut literary novel Let the Shadows Fall Behind You was published by Kunati Books in 2009. Kathy-Diane’s short story collection Roads Unravelling was published by Sumach Press and a selection from its pages Learning to Spin was adapted to radio drama for CBC’s Summer Drama Festival. The tale Showdown at the Four Corner’s Corral was revised for the stage and performed by New City Theater in Saint John. Kathy-Diane’s prose has been published in a number of literary journals including Grain, Room of One's Own, The Oklahoma Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Cormorant; as well as various anthologies such as Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction (Pottersfield Press) and New Brunswick Short Stories (Neptune). Along with being awarded numerous Canada Council and New Brunswick Art Grants, Kathy-Diane’s fiction won the Short Grain Contest (dramatic monologue) in 2000 and was listed as a finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada Short Fiction Contest in 2002. Her poetry received Honorable Mention in the Stephen Leacock International Poetry Competition. A humorous commentary I Know What You Didn't Do Last Summer aired on CBC’s national morning show with Shelagh Rogers. Memberships: Kathy Mac lives in Fredericton NB, where she participates in the WolfTree Writers and the Stand and Deliver Poets. She also directs the Concentration in Creative Writing in the English Department at St. Thomas University. Publications: * Reunion Poems. Art by Elizabeth MacKenzie. Art Books Canada, Montreal, 2004. * Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth. Roseway * Unnatural Habitats. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate, 1995, electronic chapbook. * Dust from Outer Space. Calgary: Circle Five Press, 1991, chapbook. Awards: *Finalist: Governor General's award, 2002. (for Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth) *Joseph Howe Poetry Award, Dalhousie University, 2000 (for "Tooke, Suitor to the Spectacular Givens"). Ross is a passionate writer about food and life experiences. He migrated from BC & the Yukon via Toronto and now resides at Pancake Hill in Carters Point, NB. He is a freelance writer who has also published two cookbooks and produced and hosted 135 half-hour TV Cooking shows called Tide’s Table. Memberships: Publications: Currently Doris Lee is writing her first novel in her spare time. Her hairstyling business of 30 years keeps her busy. She hears many stories to write about every day. Someday she hopes to have her novel – A Long Journey - completed Memberships: Publications: Interests: Interested in poetry and Stoics. A lifelong writer, Kathy has followed her passion through copywriter positions in ad agencies, public relations positions with government, and now in her freelance writing company, Writenow! Communications. Originally from the west coast, she has lived in Canada’s North, the Prairies and in the American Southwest. But is the east coast she calls home. Interests: memoirs, narrative non-fiction, poetry, dance, nature. Publications have appeared in newspapers, journals, arts magazines. Roger Moore, St. Thomas University’s seventh Professor Emeritus, has won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize for poetry on two occasions. In 2010 he was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition (short story category) and that same year he was awarded first prize in the WFNB Literary Competition (short story). He is currently working on a several literary manuscripts: (1) A collection of 20 short stories; (2) a manuscript of Selected Poems; (3) a poetry manuscript entitled Monkey Temple; and (4) a series of audio and video poems for the web. In addition, he is now writing his first novel, the idea for which came from his participation in the Seawords workshop in Charlottetwon, PEI, 3-7, August, 2010. Memberships: Publications: Retired teacher now preaching. Write poetry (Published a collection entitled views from apartment 301), Children's Stories,Newspaper Column, Songwriting. Memberships: Publications: CV2, Other Voices, River Review (Maine), Southern Poetry Review, Presbyterian Record, STU Reader (Anthology), Cormorant, Amythest Review, and others.
Afiena Kamminga
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a few short stories in Dutch and English language publications;contributor to Breaking the Word Barrier; a children's novel (historical) in Danish translation (Karstens Krig) published through Books on Demand Don Kelly
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His two books – Mary Lou’s New Telescope and Le Nouveau Telescope de Chloe – are being called the longest travelled children books in publishing history, having been taken to the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk as part of his personal library, lending credence to International Year of Astronomy 2009. The books were calculated to have travelled 12.5 million kilometres during 6 months on the ISS.
Don is available to speak to students through the ‘Writers in the Schools’ program and can be contacted by e-mail or at 506-357-8397.Notes
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Publications: Mary Lou’s New Telescope/Le Nouveau Telescope de Chloe (2008) RASC,
"Education and Outreach is Worth the Effort!" – RASC Journal, August, 2006
& Book Review: "The Jumbo Book of Space" – RASC Journal, October, 2008 Jennifer McGrath Kent
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Chocolate River Rescue (Nimbus 2007); White Cave
Escape (Nimbus 2009); Gadzooks the Christmas Goose (Nimbus 2010 Andrea Kikuchi
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WFNB, artslink NB.
Lisa
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re:myth- Stories and Poems by the Blacktop motorcycle gang
September 2010
re:myth- Stories and Poems by the Blacktop motorcycle gang
January 2007
Tokyo notice board Wendy Kitts
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WFNB, Writers' Federation of New Brunswick; WFNS, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia; the Nova Scotia Writers’ Council; SCBWI, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Former long-term member of PWAC, Professional Writers Association of Canada
Books
Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read (Goose Lane Editions, 2009)
Sable Island: the Wandering Sandbar (Nimbus Publishing, October 2011)
Periodicals:
Pacific San Diego, Reader’s Digest, the Globe & Mail, Canada's History, More, Canadian Children’s Book News, Saltscapes, Atlantic Books Today, the Atlantic Co-operator, the Chronicle Herald, the Telegraph Journal, Primetime, [here], and the Moncton Times & Transcript. Joseph Koot
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WFNB, local memoir-writing group
I have written a dozen items for the National Post newspaper, mainly reports of my hikes taking me across the continent of Europe in stages.M. Travis Lane
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literature, nature, music, history
WFNB, LCP, VOW
An Inch or So of Garden, Poems 1968-1972, Homecomings, Divinations and shorter Poems, Reckonings, Solid Things, Temporary Shelter, Night Physics, Keeping Afloat, Touch Earth, the Crisp Day closing on My Hand, The Book of Widows, The All-Nighter's Radio. Forthcoming: Practical Meditations. Jason Lawson
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Sharon A. Layton-Pollock
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"Our Good Parents... Volume One: Charlotte LeBlanc
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WFNB, RNCP, IONC, SSC
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Sidetracked by Schizophrenia Ross Leckie
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WFNB, League of Canadian Poets, the Nova Scotia Elizabeth Bishop Society, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs, Wallace Stevens Society.
Poetry books: A Slow Light (Signal Editions, 1983); The Authority of Roses (Brick Books, 1997); Gravity's Plumb Line (Gaspereau, 2005). Edward Lemond
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Karen Leonard
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WFNB, Win – Writing it Now group
I had two poems published in the Newfoundland Quarterly, Spring Issue 1993 Marilyn Lerch
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Lambs & Llamas, Ewes & Me, 2001, Moon Loves Its Light, 2004, Witness and Resist, 2008, co-edited Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read, 2009. Two musical settings, The Whole is Enough to Drive You Crazy, for voice,guitar and cello, W.L. Altman, 2002, We Move Homeward for chorus and orchestra by Alasdair MacLean. Kathy-Diane Leveille
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TWUC, WFNS
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Roads unravelling short story collection (Sumach Press)
Let the Shadows fall behind you (kunati books) Rikky Levesque
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Interests are reading, writing, walking, and anything supernatural and/or paranormal.Notes
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The Hidden Sin V1: Lies & Confession – Lulu.com
The Hidden Sin V2: Truths & Betrayal – Lulu.com Kathy Mac
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* The Hundefräulein Papers. Roseway Publications 2009.
ISBN 4781-5526-6300-4.
Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-896496-33-4.
*Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, 2002. (for Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth) Ruth Stella MacLean
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Registered nurse, and Certified Management Accountant, Ruth Stella MacLean received her Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Mount Allison University in Sackville N.B. in 1983. She lives in Riverview, New Brunswick, with her husband, Garry, and her Maine Coon cat.
Ruth is presently working on a Christmas story due for release in November 2012, and a second non-fiction book dealing with issues around chronic pain.Notes
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WFNB, RWAC, PASIC, NINC, RWA
Publications (The following publications are all available on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Barnes and Noble.com):
Living Successfully with Chronic Pain
Heart of My Heart, Harlequin Enterprises
Baby In Her Arms, Harlequin Enterprises
A Child Changes Everything, Harlequin Enterprises Ross Mavis
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PWAC, WFNB.
The Reader, Northern Aquaculture, Saltscapes, Eastern Woods and Waters, and the Caribbean Compass. Doris- Lee McKay
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Working on it! Beth McLaughlin
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Travel, environment, politics
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WFNB
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Series on Healthy Communities, printed in the Moncton Times-Transcript. John Mary Meagher
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Publications:A Bluebell in a Quarry (fiction),
Medicine, Mistakes and the Reptilian Brain,
(The NewMind Response™ for better decisions) (non-fiction) Kathy Mercure
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WFNB, PWAC, CVAC (Canadian Virtual Assistants Connection), GMCC
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PrimeTime Magazine Edith H. Miller
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Roger Moore
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He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, and of the Writers Federation of New Brunswick. He is also a life-member (3M National Teaching Fellow) of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. He is a co-editor of the STLHE Newsletter and an Associate Editor of the STLHE Green Guides for Teaching.
His publicly available artistic work includes 8 poetry books, 9 poetry chapbooks, a chapbook of short stories, 120 poems in 26 literary magazines, 10 individual short stories, various roles, including director, editor, script editor, locations, and actor, in a dozen short films, and the 16th Milham Lecture, published by the University of New Brunswick Libraries under the title: Birthday Suit: The Making of the Movie. Frederick Mundle
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Antigonish Review, Nashwaak Review,