Linda Aksomitis is an award-winning author, travel blogger, photographer, and online curriculum developer. Her writing is inspired by the 25 countries she’s visited and the many different jobs she’s held. (https://aksomitis.com/)

Sandra Lynn Davis’s job as a pre-kindergarten teacher gives her a natural audience for her quirky rhymes and ditties that keep everyone moving and on track. She also writes poetry and educational short stories for kids, and her full-length musical play, Ho-Ho-Ho Helping Santa, complete with eight original songs, was performed by children in over 30 schools. She is a passionate advocate for literacy and has organized and hosted many author tours in her school district.

Myrna Guymer is the author of The Canadian Shield Alphabet (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing, 2008), which won the 2008 Science in Society Journalism award in the Children’s Category. A former reporter/photographer and freelance writer, her work has been published in three Canadian anthologies, and many newspapers and periodicals. Her Mexico publications include The Pacific Pearl 2007 and Mazatlán Writers Review 2013, 2014. She has been a member of Children’s Writers’ Round Robins for 35 years. She resides north of the 54th in the Canadian Shield.

Award-winning author Alison Lohans has published over 30 books with Canadian and international presses. Much of her work is for young people. Alison has given over 1000 readings of her work in schools and libraries across Canada. She has taught writing, given many workshops, and served as Writer-in-Residence at Regina Public Library in 2002-03, as well as serving on the boards of many arts organizations. (https://alisonlohans.wordpress.com/)

Patricia Miller-Schroeder is the author of 17 children’s non-fiction books on science, natural history, and the environment, three of which have been nominated for awards in Canada. She wrote and researched the animal biography television series “Wild Lives” (Discovery, SCN) as well as several other educational films. Her prehistoric novel Sisters of the Wolf won a 2023 Saskatchewan Book Award. (https://patriciamiller-schroeder.com/)

Anne Patton has written three 3-book series for young children. The Tyler series was published by Scholastic Education. The Barr Colony Adventure series was published by Coteau Books, and her Fiddle Dancer series, co-authored with Wilfred Burton, was published by The Gabriel Dumont Institute. She is working on a third series about Scottish immigrants to Canada. (https://barrcolonyadventures.wordpress.com/)

Sharon Plumb has published a picture book with Scholastic Education and three speculative fiction novels for young people. Her middle grade novel The Mystery of the Giant Kohlrabi won a 2022 Moonbeam Award and was a finalist in the High Plains Book Awards. She has written and directed children’s plays and one full-length musical. From 2010 to 2019 she was the president of the Saskatchewan chapter of CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers). (https://sharonplumb.ca/)

Paula Jane Remlinger’s first book of poetry, This Hole Called January (Thistledown, 2019), won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry in 2020.  She writes and edits work for both adults and children from her home in Beaver Creek, SK.

Gillian Richardson is a multi-genre author of 22 books, and over 40 short stories and articles in children’s magazines. Her nonfiction book, Kaboom! Explosions of All Kinds (Annick, 2009) won the American Institute of Physics 2010 Science Writing Award, and was shortlisted for 3 provincial readers’ choice awards. 10 Plants That Shook the World (Annick, 2013) won several US children’s writing awards. She writes reviews for CM Magazine, and is a Reader for CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition. Now living in BC, she is a founding member of the Children’s Writers Round Robin of Saskatchewan. (https://gmrichardson.wordpress.com/)

Judith Silverthorne is an international award-winning author of several children’s and YA novels, plus an all-ages nonfiction picture book published in several languages, and two adult non-fiction books. She has presented hundreds of readings and writing workshops at libraries, schools, conferences, literary festivals and book fairs in North America and Europe. She is a former Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, and the 2018-2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Regina Public Library. She is also a freelance writer, editor, writing instructor and producer of documentaries for television. (https://judithsilverthorne.ca/)

Dianne Young of Martensville has written picture books (both fiction and nonfiction), an early chapter book, and a series of early readers. Her early chapter book, Honey Trouble, was a finalist for the 2002 Shining Willow Award, and her picture book, Dear Flyary, won the 2014 Sask. Book Award for Children’s Literature. Her most recent picture book was a collaboration with Brian Crane, the creator of the comic strip Pickles. She has also edited two books on grief for adults, and has written a humorous memoir of the sixty new things she did in one year to celebrate turning 60. (https://dianneyoung.ca)