Nate Hendley’s book, Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War (published by Dundurn Press) is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton) with a $300 prize.
Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based journalist and author. His work has appeared in The National Post, Maclean’s magazine, and numerous trade and business publications. He has also written scripts for podcasts, feature articles for the website of TVOntario and several books, primarily in the true-crime genre.
Nate’s last book, The Beatle Bandit won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Non-Fiction 2022 and was nominated for a Heritage Toronto 2022 Book Award.
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Johanne Seymour is a French Quebec actress, writer, director and novelist.
She started her career as an actress on stage, TV and in films, before she switched to directing plays and writing for the popular comedy stage act: Jacques et Normand. She then went on to write a TV sitcom called Santa Maria. Interested in broadening her horizons, she later studied video at NYU and TV and film directing at l’Institut national de l’image et du son. Her movie La dernière pomme won the Bonzaï for best student short at the Tunis film festival (2000).
Johanne worked as a screen writer (Santa Maria, Diva, Séquelles) and a TV director (Emma, Cent titres, Chanson pour Anna, La dernière pomme, L’Invitation) before she started writing the Kate McDougall crime novels in 2015. She adapted Le cri du cerf, the first novel of the series, under the title Séquelles. The mini series was first shown on Séries+, where it gathered the highest ratings ever for an in-house production. It continued its career on Crave and his now shown on Netflix.
Rinzen et l’homme perdu, her seventh novel and first of her new crime novel serie, has been hailed as a “series who will mark Quebec literature” and her literary opus Le Goût de l’élégance is a French Quebec best-seller. Fracture, her last novel published in 2023, received rave critics and is short listed for the Crime writers awards.
Johanne also works as a script editor and script adviser and she is the founder of Les Printemps meurtriers, which was a popular crime festival in her town of Knowlton, Québec (2012–2016).
Le roman Fracture de Johanne Seymore (publié par Libre Expression) est nominé pour le meilleur livre policier en langue française.
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Johanne Seymour est une actrice, écri-vaine, réal-i-atrice et romancière franco-québécoise.
Elle a commencé sa carrière en tant que comédienne au théâtre, à la télévision et au cinéma, avant de se tourner vers la mise en scène de pièces de théâtre et l'écriture pour la comédie populaire Jacques et Normand. Elle a ensuite écrit une sitcom télévisée in-ti-tulée Santa Maria. Dési-reuse d'é-lar-gir ses horizons, elle a ensuite étudié la vidéo à l'Université de New York et la ré-ali-sation de télévision et de cinéma à l'Institut national de l'image et du son. Son film La dernière pomme a remporté le Bonzaï du meilleur court métrage étudiant au festival de Tunis (en 2000). Deux mille
Johanne a travaillé comme scénariste (Santa Maria, Diva, Séquelles) et réalisatrice pour la télévision (Emma, Cent titres, Chanson pour Anna, La dernière pomme, L'Invitation) avant de se lancer dans l'écriture des romans policiers de Kate McDougall en 2005. (2 mile quize) Elle adapte Le cri du cerf,(cer) le premier roman de la série, sous le titre Séquelles. La mini-série a été diffusée pour la première fois sur les ondes de Séries+, où elle a re-cue-illi les meilleures cotes d'écoute jamais enregistrées pour une production interne. Il a poursuivi sa carrière sur Crave et la sienne est maintenant diffusée sur Netflix.
Rinzen et l'homme perdu, son septième roman et le premier de sa nouvelle série de romans policiers, a été salué comme une « série qui mar-quera la littérature québécoise » et son opus littéraire Le Goût de l'élégance est un best-seller franco-québécois. Fracture, son dernier roman publié en 2023,(deux miles veight trois) a reçu des critiques élo-gieuses et est pré-sélectionné pour les Crime writers Awards du excellence.
Johanne travaille également comme ré-dactrice et con-seillère en scénario et elle est la fon-datrice des Printemps meur-triers, un festival policier populaire dans sa ville de Knowlton, au Québec (2012-2016).
Catherine Astolfo is nominated for The Best Crime Short Story, for her story Farmer Knudson, From Auntie Beers: A Book of Connected Short Stories, published by Carrick Publishing.
Catherine Astolfo is an award-winning writer of short stories and the author of seven novels and two novellas. Catherine won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story in 2012 for "What Kelly Did" and again in 2018 for “The Outlier,” which is included in the Mesdames of Mayhem Anthology, 13 Claws. Catherine’s most recent book is Auntie Beers. With an historical twist and quite different from her other novels, this one is a collection of connected short stories. Published by Carrick Publishing. Catherine is a Derrick Murdoch award winner for service to Crime Writers of Canada and a Past President. Auntie Beers is available everywhere. Check out all her books at catherineastolfo.ca.
John L. Hill’s Novel, The Rest of the [True Crime] Story,(Published by AOS Publishing) is nominated forThe Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton) with a $300 prize
John L. Hill is a Canadian lawyer who has defended some of Canada’s most notorious criminals. He holds a B.A., M.A., and J.D. from Queen’s University and an LL.M. in Constitutional Law from Osgoode Hall Law School. He has taught prison law at Queen’s University and at the University of Windsor Law School.
Hill has attended and presented papers at the International Association of Law and Mental Health conferences in Siena, Italy, Paris, France, and Amsterdam. He has also lectured at the University of the Pacific Law School in California.
Now retired, Hill is a columnist for Law 360 Canada, an online newspaper serving Canada’s legal community. He comments on current issues dealing with criminal and prison law.
Hill has authored two books: Pine Box Parole: Terry Fitzsimmons and the Quest to End Solitary Confinement (Durvile Publishing, 2022) and The Rest of the [True Crime] Story (AOS Publishing, 2024). He has contributed a chapter to Indigenous Justice (Durvile Publishing, 2023) and a magazine article dealing with slavery in nineteenth-century Ontario for a Florida-based publication.
Hill is a professional member of Crime Writers Canada and volunteers as a mentor for lawyers wanting to practice prison law.
Pamela Jones’s book, The Windmill Mystery (published by Austin Macauley Publishers), is nominated for the Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing with a $200 prize.
For many years, Pamela has been a writer of program notes for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the NAC Orchestra, the Festival de Lanaudière, and numerous magazines and festivals in both Europe and Canada. In 2007 McGill-Queen’s University Press published her biography of a Quebec composer (Alcides Lanza: Portrait of a Composer). For this biography, she was awarded the Québec Opus prize for “Livre de l’année, An 2007-2008” (book of the year, 2007-08). She has a PH D in Musicology from King’s College (London) and taught music and dance at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Marianne K. Miller’s debut novel, We Were the Bullfighters, (Dundurn Press) is about Ernest Hemingway’s time at the Toronto Daily Star in 1923. On his first day, Hemingway was sent to cover a prison break at Kingston Pen. The novel follows Hemingway and the convicts on the run. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program, School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, Miller won and was twice short-listed for the Random House Award for Student Writing. Her story, Vigil Night, appeared in The Antigonish Review. Her monologue, a. k. a. Jason, is a popular audition piece for aspiring actors. A member of the Hemingway Society, in 2018, she presented a paper, Hemingway in Toronto, at the 18th International Hemingway Conference in Paris, France.
Therese Greenwood is nominated for Best Crime Short Story for her story, Hatcheck Bingo, from The 13th Letter, A Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem Anthology, published by Carrick Publishing
Fort McMurray writer Therese Greenwood has been named a Finalist for the 2025 Award of Excellence for Best Short Story from the Crime Writers of Canada. It is Greenwood’s fourth nomination for Canada’s top mystery writing prize. Greenwood’s 2025 nomination is for “Hatchcheck Bingo,” a women-centred story set in the Prohibition era. Greenwood’s story appeared in Carrick Publishing’s 2024 crime fiction collection The Thirteenth Letter, (A , Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem anthology which is) nominated for a 2025 Derringer Award for Best Anthology.
Therese’s short crime fiction has appeared across Canada and the U.S. and she won the 2019 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for her story “Buck’s Last Ride” in Kill As You Go, her 2018 short story collection. She has co-edited two short crime fiction anthologies.
Therese’s memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, was a Finalist for the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards from The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA). Nominated in the Trade Non-fiction category, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home was published by the University of Alberta Press. An eyewitness account of the Fort McMurray wildfire and evacuation, the book is also about the physical and emotional artifacts we carry with us in times of crisis.
Therese has worked as a reporter and editor and spent a decade as a CBC Radio correspondent. Her feature stories and columns appear regularly in national news publications, and she is a frequent commentator on issues related to both wildfires and crime fiction. She has a Master’s degree in journalism.
Twist Phelan is nominated for two awards in 2025. Her story Aim (featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)is on the shortlist for Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing and she is nominated for Best Juvenile / YA Crime Book sponsored by Superior Shores, for her book, Snowed (published by Bronzeville Books).
Twist Phelan is the award-winning author of eleven mystery novels, which have been praised by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus, and Booklist.
She also writes short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and various anthologies. Accolades for her work include two Thriller Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award, plus multiple nominations for the Thriller, Ellis, Shamus, Anthony, Derringer, Silver Falchion, and Lefty Awards, as well as the Crime Writers of Canada's Award of Excellence and the Irish Book Awards.
Jaima Fixsen’s novel The Specimen, (published by Poisoned Pen Press) is nominated for
The Miller-Martin Award for Best Crime Novel, sponsored by the Boreal Benefactor with a $1000 prize
Jaima Fixsen is a USA Today and International best-selling author living and writing in Edmonton, Alberta. Her novel, The Girl In His Shadow (co-authored under the pen name Audrey Blake), was selected as Libby’s 2022 Big Library Read. Her books have been translated in eight languages.
Jaima studied Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta. Her classes there on human anatomy and health care ethics began a longtime fascination with medical history, which often figures in her novels. She loves history, snow, reading, snow, and spending as much time as possible in the Canadian Rockies.