A Conversation with WINONA KENT
Meet the Board is a series of interviews with the Crime Writers of Canada’s Board Members. In episode 2 we talk to Winona Kent, the vice-chair of the CWC and BC/Yukon representative.
Author Bio
Winona Kent is an award-winning author who was born in London, England and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she completed her BA in English at the University of Regina. After moving to Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.
Winona is the author of the Jason Davey mystery series featuring professional musician/amateur sleuth Jason (Davey) Figgis. Her latest release, Ticket to Ride, is the fourth book in the series.
learn more at http://www.winonakent.com/
Meet the Board is a series of interviews with the Crime Writers of Canada’s Board Members. Season 2, Episode 1 starts at the top with our new Chair, Hyacinthe Miller. We talk about her writing and about the future of the CWC.
Author Bio
Hyacinthe is an award-winning author of short stories, magazine and newspaper articles, contemporary women’s fiction and non-fiction. She is the founder and President of the Writers’ Community of York Region and an organizational development consultant. Her fiction has been published in Herotica 7, Whispered Words, and Allucinor, The Elements of Romance.
Her debut novel, KENORA REINVENTED, features strong female and male protagonists. Each of them has baggage and is skittish about romantic entanglements, but they long to kindle a mature love that lasts.
Kenora Reinvented propels readers into a binge-worthy whodunit that will keep them engaged until the last page.
A conversation with Ken MacQueen, author of HERO HATERS. Ken MacQueen is an award-winning magazine and newspaper journalist turned thriller writer.
An interview with Lisa de Nikolits, whose story Somewhere Near Sudbury appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About Lisa de Nikolits
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits is the award winning author of eleven published novels. She has appeared on recommended reading lists for Open Book Toronto, 49th Shelf, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Hello! Canada, the Quill & Quire, and most recently, the CBC’s 65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in fall 2022. The Occult Persuasion and The Anarchist’s Solution was longlisted for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of The Fantastic and The Rage Room was a finalist in the International Book Awards, 2021. Everything You Dream is Real is a sequel to The Rage Room or read it as a standalone.
Learn more about Cold Canadian Crime at crimewriterscanada.com
Visit Lisa's website at lisawriter.com
Renee Lehnen discusses her novel, ELMINGTON, the winner of the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Crime Writers Canada's 2022 Awards of Excellence.
About the Author
Renee Lehnen works as a registered nurse in a long-term care home in Stratford, Ontario. Writing is her favourite stress reliever, but she also enjoys outdoor sports, painting, and torturing an old piano.
A latecomer to the world of writing, she took up the craft as an empty nester and what she lacks in experience, she makes up in enthusiasm.
Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and webzines. More information about her novels can be found at lehnen.ca.
An interview with C.S. O'Cinneide, whose story COOL CUSTOMER appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About the Author
Carole Kennedy is an Edgar nominated author and writes under her Irish name, C.S. O’Cinneide (oh-kin-ay-da). Her debut novel, Petra’s Ghost, a dark thriller set on the Camino de Santiago, was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019. She is also the author of a tongue-in-cheek noir crime series featuring hard-living hitwoman, Candace Starr. Starr Sign, the second novel in that series has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s coveted Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
On her blog at She Kills Lit, she seeks to spotlight and celebrate women writers of thriller and noir. See here for her manifesto as to why.
A conversation with donalee Moulton, whose short story “Swan Song” appears in the Cold Canadian Crime Anthology published by Crime Writers of Canada.
About the author
donalee Moulton has been writing professionally for over 25 years. Her byline has appeared in more than 100 magazines and newspapers throughout North America – and beyond. Among the publications donalee has written for are The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Equinox, Maclean’s, Canadian Business and The National Post. donalee is also a regular contributor for a number of magazines in Canada.
donalee is a teacher. She has taught writing, editing, grammar and communications for the past 20 years in a variety of programs. She currently teaches numerous business communication courses as part of the Executive and Professional Development program at Saint Mary’s University, and has taught courses at Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University.
Melodie Campbell discusses her short story DEATH OF A GHOST which is featured in the Anthology, Cold Canadian Crime, published by Crime Writers of Canada.
Welcome to the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.
The annual awards recognize the best in mystery, crime, and suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors.
Crime Writers of Canada offers sincere thanks to our award sponsors:
Rakuten KOBO
ECW Press
Shaftesbury
Writers First
Simpson & Wellenreiter LLP, Hamilton
Mystery Magazine
Jane Doe
And the Engel Family
Crime Writers of Canada would also like to thank Frank Kearney for announcing the shortlist and our winner’s presentation, as well as, Stone Court Studios for producing the video presenations.
Lastly, CWC would like to thank everyone in the Canadian publishing community for making the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence a success through the years.
For more information about Crime Writers of Canada and the Annual Awards, please go to CrimeWritersCanada.com.