Linda’s debut short story “The Electrician” was published this past November in the Sisters in Crime – Canada West’s anthology, Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games and is nominated for Best Crime Short Story. She’s seeking a home for her debut mystery thriller Off the Mark and she’s plotting out the sequel.
As a former producer, writer, and director of factual series television, Linda’s credits include three seasons as the senior story producer on the true crime show Murder She Solved (W Network, OWN, True Crime Network). After her TV career, Linda retrained as a crime analyst but soon concluded that she was better suited to writing about crime than trying to solve it.
Linda lived in Vancouver for many years but now resides in her hometown of Calgary with her husband, daughter, dog, and two cats.
Lorrie Potvin’s novel, A Trail's Tears, is nominated for the Best Unpublished Crime Novel Manuscript written by an unpublished author sponsored by ECW Press.
Tradeswoman, artist, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly Two-Spirited Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (2022). Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss and Why I’m thankful for multiple sclerosis (Globe & Mail) were published under her previous surname, Jorgensen, as was the short story, The 13th Dock, Writing At Wintergreen, an anthology edited by Helen Humphreys.
Working and teaching in the trades for over 30 years, Potvin holds an Inter-Provincial Red Seal in Auto Body Repair and Refinishing from Algonquin College and a diploma in Technological Education from the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, with additional qualifications in Manufacturing and Special Education. In 2022, she was named an Alumni Award of Distinction recipient from Algonquin College for Apprenticeship and was a nominee for the Ontario Premier’s Award in the same category.
Winner of the Sisters in Crime 2024 PRIDE Award for emerging 2SLGBTQIA+ writers, Lorrie lives near Perth with her partner Paula and Tig, the Cairn Terrier, writing and creating art from scrap metal.
David A. Poulsen novel, The Dark Won't Wait, (published by Red Deer Press) is nominated for Best Juvenile / YA Crime Book sponsored by Superior Shores Press with a $250 prize.
David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, rodeo cowboy, stage and film actor, and--most of all--writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. He is now the author of 33 books, many for middle readers and young adults. The 2012 winner of the Sakura Medal in Japan for his YA novel, Numbers, David’s most recent book is The Dark Won’t Wait, a teen thriller/mystery that has been short-listed for a Crime Writers Canada Award of Excellence. David is approaching 3000 school presentations as a visiting author/presenter. “I never tire of sharing my love for reading and writing with kids of all ages.”
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.