We've divided our faculty into two groups this year in order to make it easier for you to tell who's who. In addition to Teaching Faculty (just below), we have Additional Faculty Taking Appointments (at the bottom of the page).
Teaching Faculty
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A Canadian Christian marketing and distribution company, Word Alive was founded in Toronto, ON over twenty-two years ago and has been a staple in the Canadian Christian book market every since. Word Alive Press, the publishing division of the company, is just over nine years old and has been providing electronic books for its authors since its inception. Producing and selling in ebook format has become a rapidly growing phenomenon in recent years and is now a necessity in any author’s repertoire. Jeremy lives in Winnipeg with his wife Nancy and three children. Jeremy will be available for appointments at the Word Alive table. We are not booking for him in advance. |
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Michelle Buckman, literary novelist, newspaper columnist and freelance writer with 20 years in the field, has been published in numerous magazines including Writer’s Digest: Writing for Kids Special Edition, South Carolina Magazine, and NC Boating Lifestyle Magazine. She is the author of four novels: A Piece of the Sky, Pretty Maids All in a Row, 2008 Christy Award Young Adult Fiction Finalist Maggie Come Lately, and My Beautiful Disaster. Her fifth and sixth novels will be out spring 2010. She has been a featured author at the South Carolina Book Festival, a workshop instructor at numerous conferences and has mentored many writers on their path to publication. She speaks at schools, churches and book clubs where she is renowned for her dynamic discussions on writing and faith. She was born in New York, raised in Canada, but has lived in the south for over 30 years. She currently resides in South Carolina with her husband and five children. Walking on the Carolina beaches is both her inspiration and her favorite pastime. |
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Audrey Dorsch is a self-employed editor in Toronto. Some of the more than 200 books she has edited have won awards, including the 2001 Christy Award. Audrey is the former managing editor of Faith Today magazine. She started her career in newspaper journalism, then edited the Canadian constituency magazine for Wycliffe Bible Translators. She has directed and taught at dozens of writers’ seminars and coordinated a communications program at Tyndale College. In 1999 Faith Today honoured Audrey with the Leslie K. Tarr award in recognition of “outstanding contribution to Christian writing and publishing in Canada.” Audrey is a professional member of The Word Guild. www.dorschedit.ca |
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We regret that Melissa is unable to attend the conference this year due to family issues. Kelly Mortimer will be taking the romance workshop. Born and bred in New York City, Melissa Endlich has worked in the publishing industry for more than 15 years, over 10 of them working at Harlequin/Silhouette. She is currently the Senior Editor for Love Inspired, acquiring inspirational contemporary romances. After so many years in the publishing world, Melissa still considers herself very blessed that she is paid to read books that she would gladly read for free, and considers it a mission to help spread love and faith through inspirational romance fiction. |
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Dr. Freeman holds a master of science degree in the field of counseling from Loyola College (Baltimore) and a Ph.D. in the same discipline. For 19 wonderful seasons Dr. Freeman served as veteran mentor/chaplain for NBA’s Washington Bullets / Wizards ('79-'98). He has served as mentor to Sports World ('98-'04), an organization with 13-15 ex-pro athletes who speak to close to a million young people every year. With well over a half a million copies in print, his books and DVDs have received rave reviews worldwide and been published in 28 translations. |
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Sheila Wray Gregoire, a national speaker, is author of four books, including To Love, Honor and Vacuum: When You Feel More Like a Maid than a Wife and a Mother. She writes a syndicated parenting column sharing real life struggles and God's solutions. Keith, her husband, and Sheila speak at Canadian marriage conferences. Sheila also speaks for Girls Night Out. She home schools her children in their Belleville, Ont. home. She is initiating a speaking mentoring program to encourage women to perfect their sharing of God's message. Sheila is a professional member of The Word Guild. |
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Ginger Kolbaba is editor and manager of discipleship resources, including the newly launched women’s online resource, Kyria.com, and Marriage Partnership.com, an award-winning publication and Web site of Christianity Today International, both with more than 1 million unique visitors annually. She is also former editor of the award-winning publication Today’s Christian Woman, was a columnist for Let’s Worship, and has published more than 250 articles. Also an accomplished book author, Ginger has written or contributed to more than 16 books, including the best-seller Refined by Fire, which received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Her most recent novel series, Secrets from Lulu’s Café, includes Desperate Pastors’ Wives, A Matter of Wife and Death, and Katt’s in the Cradle. Ginger also teaches and speaks across the country. She’s been quoted in Newsweek and the Chicago Sun-Times and has appeared on national venues such as CNN’s Nancy Grace and Court TV’s Catherine Crier Live, as well as Chicago ’s top rated talk radio station WLS, Family Life Radio, and Moody Radio’s Midday Connection. Ginger is looking for strong, concise, biblically-based articles on the following topics: spiritual formation (such as spiritual disciplines, theology, prayer), missional life (such as outreach, service, social action), women’s ministry (leading, mentoring, practical tools), and marriage. Visit her at www.GingerKolbaba.com |
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Les Lindquist is a partner with his wife N. J. in the publishing company That's Life! Communications. A change consultant with 35 years' experience at IBM, Les has played an instrumental role in The Word Guild since its inception, including serving as its treasurer. He is currently the chair of the board of Christian Info Canada, the ministry that includes The Word Guild. He is also advancing his own career as a consultant, writer, and speaker. |
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Called a "master of plotting" by Library Journal, N. J. Lindquist is an award-winning Canadian author and columnist, as well as a popular motivational speaker whose vision is to see people become everything God created them to be. N. J. is the author of two adult mystery novels, five coming-of-age novels, three discipleship manuals for teens, and one play. She is also the editor and publisher of the bestselling anthology, Hot Apple Cider. Lindquist co-founded The Word Guild in 2002, and has directed Write! Canada since taking it over from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in the fall of 2001. She judged the fiction manuscripts for the Best New Canadian Author Awards in both 2008 and 2009. Originally from Western Canada, N. J., her husband Les, and their four sons have lived in Markham, Ont. since 1986. N. J. and Les are partners in That's Life! Communications publishing company. |
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John Longhurst has spent his career in media relations and communications. He is a Faith Page columnist with the Winnipeg Free Press, a regular contributor to other publications, and author of the book Making the News: An Essential Guide to Effective Media Relations. He also leads workshops on media relations for non-profit groups through Winnipeg 's Volunteer Centre, and teaches media relations for the University of Winnipeg Department of Continuing Education. In real life he is Director of Marketing for Mennonite Publishing Network, and its book imprint, Herald Press—which means he has to try to practice what he preaches on a daily basis. In his previous roles, he worked as associate editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald; director of communications for the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada; and director of communications and marketing for Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg. You can learn more about him at www.makingthenews.ca. |
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Jenna Magnus is the Production Technology Coordinator at John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd. She has been responsible for expanding the Digital Publishing program at Wiley Canada over the past two years and is proud to say that the majority of their titles are now available in multiple eBook formats for consumers to purchase online. Jenna graduated from the Humber College Creative Book Publishing Program in 2007 and is now very excited to have found her calling in the Digital Publishing world. She hopes to do her part to grow the reach of eBooks by helping to inform and inspire as much as she can. |
Donna Mann has attended this conference since the God Uses Ink days back at OBC. She has served on a Self-Published panel, as billeting contact and in various volunteer roles. Donna recently retired from pastoral ministry and began devoting her time to unfinished projects. At least that was her intention until she got the audio and e-book buzz. She’s been a fan of audio books for more ten years – always having a cassette and more recently a CD in her car console. Now that she’s not travelling as much, she has convert to listening to books on her iPod or GPS. Currently, she created the MeadowLane MP3 Stories for Kids website to host her children’s stories of ‘real animals, whimsical creatures and lovable kids’. Although this is all very exciting, Donna is still committed to the traditional book form and looks forward to a September launch of the second book in her Agnes Macphail series. |
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D. S. Martin is a Canadian whose poetry has appeared in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Britain, in such journals as Canadian Literature, The Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Dalhousie Review and Queen's Quarterly. His poetry chapbook, So The Moon Would Not Be Swallowed (Rubicon Press), about his grandparents who were missionaries to China from 1923 to 1951, received an Award of Merit from The Word Guild in 2008. His new full-length poetry book, Poiema, is published by Wipf & Stock. It tied for first place, with perfect scores from the judge, in the Book – Special category in The Word Guild's 2009 Canadian Christian Writing Awards. He is now at work on a new manuscript inspired by the life and writings of C. S. Lewis. He is the Music Critic for ChristianWeek, and has written about poetry for several publications including Books & Culture and Image. |
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Andy Meisenheimer is a freelance editor and editor on staff at The Editorial Department, the oldest full service editorial firm in the United States (founded in 1980 by Renni Browne, coauthor of Self-Editing for Fiction Writers). He also edits for publishers including Waterbrook/Multnomah, David C. Cook, and Guideposts Books. Prior to freelancing, he served as an acquisitions editor at Zondervan where he was known for championing new voices and unconventional ideas. He lives with his wife and son near Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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M. D. (Dorene) Meyer is the award-winning author of Jasmine, The Little Ones, Deep Waters, Pilot Error, Get Lost!, Colin's Choice and Meet Manitoba Children’s Authors. She is also the editor of nine anthologies Prairie Writers volume 1, 2, 3, Northern Writers volume 1, 2, The Voice Behind the Mask, Isle of Mirage, Remember Me and Squirrel Tales and Rabbit Trails. Having established her own publishing company, Goldrock Press, Meyer also has helped Aboriginal authors Brenda Fontaine (Babs Adventures series) and Flora Rideout (Tansi) to become published. Other writing credits include: editorial, reviews, news, feature articles, profiles, script-writing and poetry. Meyer was a mentor in the 2008 Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers Mentor Program, winner of The Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards 2007 Best Children’s Book, Award of Merit winner in 2006, and contributor to the Hot Apple Cider anthology. A resident of Norway House, Manitoba, Meyer is a part-time instructor at University College of the North. |
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Kelly Mortimer is the Extreme Agent: Diabolically Diligent. Maniacally Moral. Defiantly Different…. I only represent writers not yet published (but they will be), or not published in 3 years. (Why? ’Cause that’s what God told me to do.) I seek writers in secular and inspirational markets, for fiction and nonfiction works. I made the Top 5, Publisher’s Marketplace Top 100 Dealmakers – Romance Category; won the American Christian Fiction Writers “Agent of the Year” award; and received my RWA chapter’s “Volunteer of the Year” award. As a writer, I love to recap humorous stories taken from my everyday life (my truth is stranger than fiction), which I post on my blog: www.welcometomyworlds.com. I answer “Ask an Agent” questions (Romance Writers United newsletter). I also am co-authoring a book with my TOPGUN fighter-pilot client; adapting a client’s memoir into an action-packed screenplay; and writing a client’s biography, Paula Jones: Making History. I work from my 20-acre ranch just north of San Diego, CA. For information on what I’m looking for, please go to my Web site and view my submission guidelines. |
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Wendy Elaine Nelles is an award-winning journalist, writer, editor and speaker with wide-ranging experience in the corporate, not-for-profit and publishing sectors. She holds an M.A. in Communications with high honour from Wheaton College, Illinois. She has served on the leadership team of the God Uses Ink/Write! Canada conference for 22 consecutive years. This is the ninth conference that Nelles has directed since The Word Guild assumed responsibility for the conference (then known as God Uses Ink) from Faith Today/The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in 2001. Nelles co-founded The Word Guild, invested nine years in getting it established, and continues to be active in her role as founder and consultant. In 2006, she was recognized nationally with the Leading Women Award for Excellence in Communications and Media. She co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot Apple Cider, a Canadian bestseller showcasing 30 authors. |
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Aimee Reid is a writer, editor, educator, speaker and trainer who loves the creative potential of words. She has edited material for all ages and published curriculum, poetry, and devotionals. Aimee enjoys creating workshops that inspire as well as instruct. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario and is a member of the Editors' Association of Canada and The Word Guild. |
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Now that her children are grown, Denise is able to devote more time to her writing and speaking. Before taking this job with The Word Guild, Denise operated her own bookkeeping business for 11 years. |
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Adele Simmons has been a professional member of The Word Guild since its inception in January 2002. She is an award-winning writer and editor, a seasoned keynote speaker, teacher, manager, and musician. With decades of public presentation, Adele has encountered almost every speaking scenario you can think of… from national television interviews and performance to radio shows, from churches to hay wagons, from conferences and camps to train-the-trainer workshops. She is currently writing a memoir and two how-to books. She is often booked for motivational speaking or her workshops in Creative Ministries and Public Speaking. Her recent workshop series ME, SPEAK? has been sold out. |
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She writes weekly book reviews and devotionals at her blog, "God With Us: Finding Joy", and a quarterly fiction column in FellowScript. Janet is a Canadian writer whose passion is fiction. Her unpublished novel, Praying for the Enemy, was short-listed for the 2008 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award. When she’s not writing, she’s happily exploring the benefits of reading eBooks. Writing Needs: FellowScript is the newsletter of InScribe Christian Writers’ Fellowship, one of Canada’s largest organizations for Christians who write. Before submitting, please review our guidelines and a sample article at http://www.inscribe.org/FellowScript.htm. Our main need is for non-fiction articles written in a casual, anecdotal style with an emphasis on take-away value for Christian writers. Write something a reader can put into practice right away. We also take reviews of books on writing and of books by InScribe members. We always prefer material specifically slanted towards the needs and interests of Canadian Christian writers. We do not publish poetry or fiction except as part of an instructional article, nor do we publish writers' testimonials. We're always looking for submissions from Canadian writers. Unpublished writers may find it easiest to break in with a review or filler. |
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Eric Spath is an entrepreneur at heart, who has 18 years experience in the Christian market, working for both ministries and for-profit companies. His key areas of focus have been in marketing and event development through partnerships with the Christian media, churches and retailers in Canada.Throughout the past 10 years he has developed a variety of innovative programs that have resourced Christians and churches with products, services and events. Spath, in his current role as Manager of Speaker & Events for World Vision Canada, has had the opportunity to work on events such as Live 8 and Canada for Asia, while developing a variety of Christian market events with authors and speakers, including Girls Night Out, Aspiring Women, and Bananas. |
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Jeannie Lockerbie Stephenson was born in Hamilton. After nurses’ training, she graduated from Cedarville University and studied communications at Wheaton College. She served as a missionary in Bangladesh. During an extended illness, God led her to open the Literature Division, now the largest producer of Christian material in Bengali. Jeannie wrote 28 books translated into Bengali. Besides numerous articles, she has written nine books in English. She has conducted writing conferences in India, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Togo, South Africa, Thailand, the United States, and Canada. For seven years she was Director of Publications for her mission. This included producing The Message magazine with a circulation of 100,000. She also edited and produced 25 books telling what God is doing worldwide today. Jeannie lives in London, Ont. and is a member of The Word Guild. She continues to teach and speak overseas. She also edits material for her own and other mission agencies. |
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John Wallace (Wally) Stephenson is a graduate of London Bible Institute (now Tyndale University College), Wilfrid Laurier University, and Heritage Theological Seminary. He pastored in Ontario for 29 years. In 1991 he went as a missionary church planter to Cape Town, South Africa. While home in 1993, Wally's wife, Louise, and daughter, Ruth, were killed in a car accident on Highway 401. Wally returned to South Africa and wrote Through Tears to Triumph, now in its fourth printing in English. It is also published in India and is available in French and Vietnamese. The book has helped countless people work through grief themselves and also those who help others cope with adversity. In addition, he has written four brochures on the subject and presents "Helping Hurting People" seminars. He and his wife Jeannie reside in London, Ont. The book and brochures are available through www.rbpcanada.com. |
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Mags Storey, author, reporter, journalist and charity writer, has lived in five countries. At age 12, she had her first piece published in a Middle Eastern newspaper. In her early twenties, she wandered into the God Uses Ink/Write! Canada conference with three chapters of a novel scribbled in a notebook. Eight years later, Kregel published it, making her dream of writing addictively messy romance a reality. Her first novel, If Only You Knew, is a young adult romance about getting your heart broken, surviving creepy stalkers and finding your place in the world. Storey, currently Ontario Correspondent for ChristianWeek, has become adept at writing news while balancing two enthusiastic children on her lap. |
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Jim Taylor first developed Eight-Step Editing as a workshop for the Editors’ Association of Canada in 1985. He has led Eight-Step workshops in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, and Victoria, for over 3,000 writers and editors. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Jim Taylor has over 40 years experience in writing and editing. He has produced programs in both private and public radio; he was for 13 years managing editor of The United Church Observer; he has also been editor of two other national magazines and seven newsletters. In 1981, he co-founded Canada’s largest independent religious publishing house, Wood Lake Books Inc. He is himself the author of 17 books, and has had “somewhere over 500” magazine articles published. Although officially retired, this B.C. resident still writes two newspaper columns a week (available on the Internet) and continues to teach writing and editing workshops in western Canada. His contributions to religious communication in Canada were recognized by United College in Montreal (McGill University) with an honorary Doctorate of Divinity. He has also been honored by the Editors’ Association of Canada and the Canadian Church Press with life memberships, and by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada with its Leslie K. Tarr Award. |
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Ann Voskamp’s quiet musings on her blog drew the attention of not only thousands of daily readers on six continents, but unexpectedly led to an editor of a large CBA publishing house contacting her to explore publishing opportunities, multiple agents offering representation, and eventually a signed book contract with Zondervan. She believes that blogging is an unrivaled medium to answer God’s call to write, humbly laying the words up on the altar for Him to take and use as He pleases, all for His glory. Every day she encourages readers at her award-winning, nationally recognized site, www.aholyexperience.com and in regular columns for DaySpring (a division of Hallmark), The High Calling of Our Daily Work and The Christian Beacon. This resident of rural Ontario is a professional member of The Word Guild and her book with Zondervan releases early 2011. |
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Jeremy Braun is the president of Word Alive, Group Canada, and Word Alive Press Publishing in Winnipeg MB.
Denise Rumble is the Managing Director of The Word Guild. She is a freelance writer whose column, "Just Thinking," has appeared in five publications. She also has written articles, book reviews, sports write-ups, as well as an education column when she was a Board of Education trustee.
Janet Sketchley serves as Acquisitions Editor for Additional Faculty Taking Appointments
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Diane Callender, a fine arts graduate of the University of Western Ontario, applies her studies in design and colour theory, as well as her Sheridan College Fashion Design and Corporate Communications diplomas, to her work. Callender's flair for fashion was further developed when working with VIP clients, such as former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman and Fashion Television host Jeanne Beker, and for Hugo Boss Canada. Her highly developed aesthetic sense and knowledge of textiles, style and design allow her to coordinate a total image for both male and female clients. The Diane Callender image consulting company in Toronto helps clients make life transitions, empowering them to grow in confidence and successfully move into new opportunities. (Back by popular demand! Take advantage of the opportunity to meet with Diane Callender for a limited number of one-on-one private image consulting consultations during the conference. "Affirming, clarifying and creative. Wonderful suggestions. A highlight of my conference experience," said one 2009 registrant.) |
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Kathryn Dean is a Christian editor and writer who has edited and project-managed a wide variety of materials over the past three decades, specializing mostly in nonfiction books about Canadian history and politics, environmental issues, and Native issues. Authors she has worked with include Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Mary Lou Finlay, Mordecai Richler, Ronald Wright, Peter C. Newman, and Maude Barlow. She has also edited children’s books, including Connie Crook’s Laura’s Choice (about Laura Secord) and Nellie L (about Nellie McClung). She has written a book, called Birds, with Canadian wildlife painter Robert Bateman. Kathryn also teaches copy editing through Ryerson University and stylistic and copy editing for the Editors’ Association of Canada. She has won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on Tom Axworthy and Pierre Trudeau’s Towards a Just Society. LloShe has helped set up a farmland preservation group, the Ontario Farmland Trust, and currently lives and works on a farm near Guelph, Ontario. |
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Bill has learned from, taught at and at times helped organize Write!Canada for more than 10 years. Writing Needs: Faith Today magazine welcomes queries proposing unwritten articles. We especially like ideas that promise Canadian content and that are of interest to Christians in more than one denomination. Read our guidelines at www.faithtoday.ca/writers. The easiest way to get started writing for Faith Today is to propose a couple of informative articles (profiles or news reports of 300 words each). We don’t generally publish anything longer than 2000 words. We pay $0.20/word. |
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Between them they have over 20 years experience in the Worship arts arena and business sectors. Worship 4:23 magazine (based on John 4:23, our biblical model of worship) is a special interest publication geared towards creative worshippers, dancers, musicians, worship leaders and all who participate in creating an atmosphere of worship. This magazine provides you the complete opportunity to reach the creative arts in the worship community. With a special emphasis on creative arts in worship and dance, it is informative, visual and very exciting. Readers will be able to put their trust in the consistent coverage, relevant topics and biblical content of this new worship magazine. What are we looking for: writers, creative artists, photographers, editors and sales agents. Wayne will be taking appointments with interested individuals.Charmaine will also be attending the conference. |
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Stephen Kennedy is a lover of stories. For over 30 years, he has been preaching the stories of the Bible and writing stories of his own. Steve was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario. After a brief sojourn in the wilderness, looking for a better place to live, he came back home in 1984. He is still there, basking in the beauty of the Kawartha Lakes. He is the editor of Testimony, the monthly magazine of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, and a teaching pastor at Willow Grove Gathering, a branch of Kawartha Community Church. |
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Renee James is communications director for Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec and editor of The Link and Visitor, Canada’s original magazine for women. Inspiring and equipping readers to be good news – wherever and whenever – is The Link and Visitor’s core. R Renee is always on the lookout for writers whose work is so stunning that, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, when she reads them she feels physically as if the top of her head were taken off. |
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Fazal Karim Jr. is the founder and publisher of The Christian Herald, a monthly newspaper which is the largest of its kind in Canada, distributed free of charge across southern Ontario. Karim currently serves as vice-president of the Gospel Music Association Canada and has served on the board of the Toronto March for Jesus. He also works closely with numerous Christian groups, including the Jesus in the City Parade, The Word Guild and MissionFest Toronto. |
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Monica Leis is co-founder and publisher of Maranatha News, a national, monthly newspaper founded in 1996 that features Canadian content by Canadian writers. Created to strengthen bonds that exist within Canada’s diverse Christian community, Maranatha News showcases the stories and talents of Canadian Christian writers, authors and musicians. It features women’s groups, professional athletes and ministry organizations, and is distributed to churches, Christian bookstores across Canada, and secular stores in the Greater Toronto Area. Leis, associate director of a national reading organization called “Read for Life”, also serves on two women’s ministry committees. Maranatha News is looking for news from the Christian community across Canada. We serve over 15 denominations with this monthly newspaper therefore we are always looking to gather news of what's happening within the churches. New appointments, anniversaries, working with special needs in the congregation, new services for seniors or the kindergarden age, vibrant youth programs, we are looking for stories of people focusing on health, business, missions, and those church members that are up-and-coming or excelling in the performing arts. Short stories of approx. 300-400 words. (Sorry, we rarely publish poetry pieces.) You can pick up an issue of Maranatha News on the conference table and also available there are our writer's guidelines. You can sign up for an appointment with me if you have a query, I'll be attending the entire conference or you can reach me at info@maranathanewspaper.com. www.maranathanewspaper.com |
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Lloyd Mackey is an Ottawa-based journalist, editor-at-large for Vancouver-based Christian Info Society, and editor emeritus of ChristianWeek Ontario. He is the author of four nonfiction books, including Stephen Harper: the Case for Collaborative Governance (ECW Press, 2006). His weekly faith/political analysis, OttawaWatch, is posted and archived at www.canadianchristianity.com. Lloyd was a 2006 recipient of the Leslie K. Tarr Award, recognizing his four decades as a reporter, editor, columnist and publisher in both the community and Christian newspaper fields. In semi-retirement, he is focusing much of his thinking and writing on the application of biblical conflict study concepts to adversarial political settings. At Write! Canada, Lloyd will be representing BC Christian News and www.canadianchristianity.com, both arms of Christian Info Society. |
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Johanne Robertson, is co-founder and editor of Maranatha News, a national, monthly newspaper founded in 1996 that features Canadian content by Canadian writers. Created to strengthen bonds that exist within Canada’s diverse Christian community, Maranatha News showcases the stories and talents of Canadian Christian writers, authors and musicians. It features women’s groups, professional athletes and ministry organizations. Maranatha News is distributed to churches, Christian bookstores across Canada, and secular stores in the Greater Toronto Area. Robertson, executive director of a national reading organization called “Read for Life”, also serves on Board of Directors of The Word Guild and Women Alive. Maranatha News is looking for news from the Christian community across Canada. We serve over 15 denominations with this monthly newspaper therefore we are always looking to gather news of what's happening within the churches. New appointments, anniversaries, working with special needs in the congregation, new services for seniors or the kindergarden age, vibrant youth programs, we are looking for stories of people focusing on health, business, missions, and those church members that are up-and-coming or excelling in the performing arts. Short stories of approx. 300-400 words. (Sorry, we rarely publish poetry pieces.) You can pick up an issue of Maranatha News on the conference table and also available there are our writer's guidelines. You can sign up for an appointment with me if you have a query, I'll be attending the entire conference or you can reach me at info@maranathanewspaper.com. www.maranathanewspaper.com |
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Les Stobbe, a former Journalist in Residence at Gordon College, Wenham, MA, is a literary agent, a mentor and editor-in-chief of The Christian Writers Guild, and Director of International Christian Writers. Founding editor of the Mennonite Observer in Winnipeg, Stobbe served as editor at Christian Life Publications, editorial director of Cambridge Publishers (Canadian business magazines), Moody Press Books, Christian Herald Books and Book Clubs, and Here's Life Publishers Ltd. (of which he was president for seven years), and Scripture Press managing editor of curriculum. His most recent full-time position was as vice-president of communications and marketing at the Evangelistic Association of New England (now Vision New England). Author or co-author of 14 books, he has also had more than 700 articles published. He’s the recipient of the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference award for probably having published the most first-time authors, and recipient of the Partnership Award from The Word Guild in 2007 for significant contributions to Canadian writers who are Christian. |
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White's newspaper career began 20-plus years ago, reporting for and editing mainstream weekly newspapers and freelancing for mainstream and Christian publications. His column, "A Matter of Faith," has appeared in the Guelph Mercury since 1996 and "Christian Living" appeared in the Kelowna Daily Courier from 1994 to 1996. White has been involved with Write! Canada (and previously God Uses Ink) for about a decade either as faculty, a member of the organizing committee or both. He is an affiliate member of The Word Guild. Writing Needs: ChristianWeek's primary need is for news. Writers are encouraged to submit articles about people or news events in your own region or denomination that would be of interest and importance to readers in other church |
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Larry Willard is the owner and publisher of Castle Quay Books Canada and BayRidge Books, Canada’s largest non-denominational publishing company. He is also president of the new Toronto retailer Faith Family Books & Gifts. Before that, Willard was executive director and general manager of Augsburg Fortress Publishing Company in Canada for four years. Augsburg Fortress is one of the largest Canadian Christian resource and publishing company distributors in Canada. He also worked at Xerox Corporation and Apple Computers, before spending nine years with Tyndale University College & Seminary in various VP roles. |
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In Pakistan, where he served for 16 years, he was the co-founder of the Open Theological Seminary which currently serves over 2500 students. In English, seven of his non-fiction books and two novels – The Lightning File and Captives of Minara - have been published. He edits the Fellowship LINK magazine. Mary Helen, the consultant on all his writing, has shared with him 46 years of ministry in missions and the pastorate. They have three married children and nine grandchildren. Writing Needs: The Fellowship LINK magazine is looking for writers with life stories about senior adults, stories normally of 450 words, sent to the editor, wrightee@eagle.ca as an easily readable e-mail attachment. While the magazine is published by the Fellowship Baptist denomination of Ontario, the bulk of articles resonate with the greater evangelical community. Avoid anything that is overly controversial, dull, formulaic, repetitive or preachy. Articles should reflect biblical values consistent with Baptist faith and practice but may cover topics of faith, travel, gardening, health and occasionally, fiction. Check http://fellowshiplink.wordpress.com/ for samples of the magazine and writers' guidelines. |
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Bill Fledderus teaches evening classes in writing fiction, poetry and essays at Redeemer University College. He is senior editor at Faith Today, a leading Canadian magazine for Christians, and edits website content for its publisher, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
Wayne Hinds and his wife Charmaine are the founders and directors of 
Robert White has been the editor of ChristianWeek Ontario, in its various incarnations, since its launch in March 2002. He also hosts a newsmagazine radio program each Tuesday on Kitchener's Faith FM 94.3.
Eric. E. Wright is the editor of the Fellowship Link. Eric Wright’s writing ministry is the outgrowth of a deep desire to inspire Christians to live lives that are both biblically sound and practically godly.Faculty Expertise/Interest Charts
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