Writer, spoken word artist, editor and arts educator Liana Cusmano was the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion and runner-up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship. Their first novel, Catch & Release (2022), was published by Guernica Editions. They were also a 2022 finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize and the winner of the 2024 Society Pages Poetry Contest.
Academic, Arts & Entertainment, Corporate, Journalism, Non-Fiction Bio I am a writer and editor with forty years experience in daily newspapers and freelance work. I have been literary editor, business editor and features editor at the Montreal Gazette. I am the author, co-author or editor of nine books including After Auschwitz: One Man’s Story, an …
Arts & Entertainment, Playwriting, Screenwriting Bio Matt Holland is a screenwriter, story editor and script consultant from Montreal. He is a graduate of the MA program in Creative Writing (English Literature) at Concordia University and of both the Writers’ Lab and the Professional Screenwriting Programme at the Canadian Film Centre. Produced work includes short scripts (Drop Off, Whistleblowers Anonymous), feature films (Gone …
Academic, Arts & Entertainment, Children’s & YA Literature, Corporate, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Screenwriting Bio Jennifer studied Journalism and her early career was in news with Global Television, local newspapers, and radio reporting. She moved into documentary TV series, and this led her through a 30-year career in factual, lifestyle, and children’s programming. She has been a …
Jerome Sable is a screenwriter, playwright, director, composer, and lyricist for stage and screen. Available for: coaching, mentoring, script consults, and more.
Fiction, Screenwriting Bio Montréal-based Wiebke von Carolsfeld is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, who most recently directed on the hit CTV/NBCU series Transplant. Previously, she directed three critically acclaimed feature films. Marion Bridge (starring Molly Parker, introducing Elliot Page), STAY (a Canadian/Irish coproduction starring Taylor Schilling, Aidan Quinn and Barry Keoghan), and The Saver, winner of the Best Actress Award at …
