Anar Ali is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at UBC where she was also on the editorial board of Prism International. For two years, she taught Creative Writing to junior high and high school student as part of UBC's New Shoots Program; the program culminated in an anthology of student work. Her first book, Baby Khaki's Wings , was published in March 2006 by Penguin Canada .

Anar's workshop, “Getting an Agent,” was run in conjunction with PEN Canada 's Writers in Exile Network.

Sandra Campbell's first novel, Getting to Normal (Stoddart, 2001) was a semi-finalist in the 1999 Chapters/Robertson Davies First (Unpublished) Novel Award; Susan G. Cole selected it as one of NOW 's ten best books of 2001. Sandra's new work, A Due is a memoir of two sisters whose relationship is stopped by death, then recovered and transformed as the author recounts their shared experiences of an opera, a painting and New York City . In addition to teaching Creative Writing Through Reading at the University of Toronto , Sandra also offers her reflective narrative writing workshops, Writing into Balance, in various Toronto venues. Sandra is a graduate of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, (Adult Education), the University of Toronto, (History), and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, (Television Production), In her work as a community educator she has written instructional texts and essays and video scripts on the subject of learning, media, the arts and the imagination.

Along with Kelli Deeth, Sandra has run workshops with clients of the New Outlook Program at Central Toronto Youth Services.

Kelli Deeth grew up in Pickering , Ontario . Her critically acclaimed short-story collection, The Girl Without Anyone (HarperCollins, 2001), was chosen as one of The Globe and Mail's top books of 2001 and has sold internationally. Her short stories have appeared in publications such as The Dalhousie Review , The Antigonish Review and Write Turns . Her critically acclaimed one-act play, “Holdin On,” was produced and performed in Vancouver at Performance Works and The Havana Gallery. Her book reviews have appeared in The Vancouver Sun . Deeth holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia, and now teaches creative writing in The University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. She also has experience teaching children and adults with learning disabilities and has taught a grade eleven class creative writing as part of UBC's creative writing program.

Along with Sandra Campbell, Kelli has run workshops with clients of the New Outlook Program at Central Toronto Youth Services.

Lutia Lausane holds a degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley . After a year of teaching English at Mount Royal Jr. College in Calgary , she trained with Theatre Beyond Words in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Theatre New Brunswick . She has conducted workshops in movement, mime and storytelling in school and theatre settings for the past twenty years. Lausane has also worked in film, radio and theatre as a creator, writer, performer and producer, and for eighteen years hosted the children's series, The Blue Rainbow, on CBC and Global TV. Currently, Lausane lives in Toronto , where along with Michael Winter she coordinates the Life Stories workshops at Parkdale Project Read, and is also working on a volume of poetry and a children's chapter-book.

Along with Michael Winter, Lutia has run “Life Stories” workshops at Parkdale Project Read.

Mark Laliberte was born in 1971, and holds an MFA from the University of Guelph . He is a practicing visual artist, poet & independent curator; he is the Managing Editor for both Carousel and Descant magazines. Laliberte has had works published in numerous journals including 3rd Bed , Dandelion , Descant , Hat , Kiss Machine , Prarie Fire , SubTERRAIN , The Pocket Canon , Vallum , Wegway , West Coast Line , and Windsor Review .

Mark's workshop, “Writing Grant Applications,” was run in conjunction with PEN Canada's Writers in Exile Network.

Maria Meindl's essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals including The Literary Review of Canada , Descant , Musicworks and Queen Street Quarterly . She is co-publisher of a small press, The Writing Space. Parent Care , her two-part radio series on siblings caring for their elderly parents was aired on CBC Ideas in December of 2003 and another series on polio will be broadcast in 2007. She is currently at work on Past Forgetting , a biography of her grandmother, the poet and broadcaster Mona Gould. Maria has her M.A. in education from the University of Toronto . She has taught creative writing, literacy and ESL to adults and teenagers since 1986, most recently as part of The Writing Space. A Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioner since 2004, she now combines elements of movement education and somatic awareness into her teaching of writing.

Maria has run a one-day workshop at East End Literacy, as well as “Reading Your Work Aloud” with PEN Canada 's Writers in Exile Network.

Elaine Stirling has been writing professionally for more than 20 years. The mother of two grown sons, she is the published author of eleven novels, several short stories, articles and book reviews. Elaine teaches Creative and Business Writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She offers workshops on personal and collective mythology, a process that taps into our deepest creativity in all levels of life.

Elaine has run a one-day personal journalism workshop with clients of the Beat the Street program at Frontier College .

Michael Winter was born in England and grew up in Newfoundland . He is the author of The Big Why , which won the Drummer General's Award and was nominated for Ontario 's Trillium Book Award and the Atlantic Book Awards Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and This All Happened , which won the Winterset Award and was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He has also published two short-story collections, Creaking in Their Skins and One Last Good Look . Michael teaches at the University of Toronto and runs weekly “Life Stories” writing workshops with Lutia Lausane at Parkdale Project Read.

Along with Lutia Lausane, Michael has run “Life Stories” workshops at Parkdale Project Read.