A Considerable Age

On a good day, I slay dragons, write essays, and still have time to make dinner. On a bad day, we have to order in. Debut book: Family Secrets. https://www.alicegoldbloom.com/

Making sense of life through photography, collage, and storytelling. Work featured in The New York Times and other publications. AirBnb Alumni, Photo Editor, Visual Curator. That curious kid from Manila, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Retired hospice chaplain and archivist, Susie Kaufman, is the author of Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement. Her focus has always been on lifting up people's stories and seeing them in the context of the larger story that embraces all of us.

Beth Kaplan is the author of five books: a biography, two memoirs, and a guide to creative writing that's the textbook for the nonfiction writing courses she teaches at U of T. Her latest book is Midlife Solo, a memoir-in-essays. www.bethkaplan.ca.

Barbara Emodi has worked in government, the media and academia. In addition to her How to be a older woman substack she also publishes one on her whimsical fiction books as Babsemodibooks.

Former Montreal Gazette editor. Still writing, still editing.

I'm a Pacific Northwest writer and reader who’s been through some stuff, but still tries to find the light in the dark. Memoir, non-fiction, vulnerable, shame-busting, life-loving, grief-healing, empowered, truth-inspired writing are my favorites.

Retired magazine editor living in the beautiful Gatineau Hills of Western Quebec. Grateful for finally having the time, perspective and opportunity to write and share stories.

Anna designs and teaches memoir based writing courses.

Author, writing coach, and former penguin herder, Gina’s books include the novel, “Don’t Ask” and the collection “Tell Me Story, Tell Me the Truth.” She was also the subject of the award-winning documentary, My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me.

I am a spiritual director, psychotherapist and poetry editor for Spiritual Directors International. Addicted to "waking up" through invitations from life and my dreams, my greatest joy is my huge family of nineteen grands and twelve great-grands.

Fascinated with life stories, both in my work as a therapist and in exploring life experiences in some writing.

Spent many years as a reporter telling other people's stories. Delighted to share my own now. Confirmed book addict. Making my way through stacks of them I finally have the time to read.

I have lived all over the world. Turns out all those untold stories needed just one writing class to burst free — humour intact, despite everything.

Public life in the entertainment business. Private life in the garden with my German Shepherds. Currently writing a memoir about it ALL!

Lena's stories and poems have been published in various anthologies and online journals. She is editor-in-chief of Ottawa Independent Writers' annual anthology and serves on their board of directors.

Silvia Fiorita Smith is the author of two poetry books and facilitates poetry workshops at her local library. She enjoys writing creative nonfiction and has stories published in several anthologies. She lives in Embrun, Ontario.