RC Shaw is the author of Captain Solitude (2024) and Louisbourg or Bust (2018), a finalist for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction. He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Surfer’s Journal, [EDIT] Magazine, Beach Grit, the Coast, and the Chronicle Herald. He also founded the Cow Bay Concert Series, bringing musical acts such as Bahamas, Matt Mays, and Jenn Grant to his community hall. He holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from King’s University College.

When not running his school’s library, RC Shaw can be found in the waves near his home in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. He yearns to sail, but reading a dozen sailing books is the extent of his experience. He plans to enroll in a ‘Learn to Sail’ summer camp in the near future, likely alongside his pre-teen daughters.

What’s next for RC Shaw? After chronicling Nova Scotia’s surfable Atlantic coastline, there’s only one left in Eastern Canada: Newfoundland. The map is on the wall, the books are on the shelves, the board is waxed up… please stay tuned!

Janet Lee is an educator, author, and producer. As an English Department Chair, she helped open two secondary schools in Ontario and later led literacy curriculum development for over 120 schools across the province. An instructional writer for the best-selling Nelson Literacy series and an international speaker for her Face-2-Face Forever series, Janet has inspired educators to reimagine how literacy lives in both traditional and digital classrooms.

Her recently published book, Always Ask for Help, shares the extraordinary story of Arnie Stewart, who lived 59 years unable to read or write. After Arnie visited her Grade 11 class more than two decades ago, Janet promised to share his message. A promise now realised through a feature-length Hollywood documentary film in production. Known for her engaging, practical, and inspiring sessions, Janet weaves her love of literature with multimedia production to help educators and students connect through story, language, and creativity.

Rebecca J. Hogue is a writer who holds many other hats including blogger, lecturer, podcaster, instructional designer, breast cancer survivor, wife, and puppy-parent. 

Rebecca J. Hogue published her first memoir, Never Knew I Wanted to be a Breast Cancer Survivor: A Young Survivor’s Story, in 2022. It is the story of a young survivor learning to cope with an unexpected diagnosis while learning to navigate a foreign medical system.

She has had several stories published in Wildfire Magazine and two stories publishing in Bay Area Young Survivor anthologies. She is the author and co-author of many academic articles on learning technology and open education. To support the courses she teaches, she has written a couple of open access textbooks.

She continues to blog about writing, travel, and her continuing lived experience as a breast cancer survivor.

In early 2026, she is launching a narrative podcast, Definitely Not Famous, in which she interviews memoirists who aren’t famous but have remarkable stories to tell.

She is working on a second memoir detailing an epic eight-month bike ride across the back roads of Canada.

She lives in Sin So’sepe’katik (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada).