Debbie Okun Hill

Debbie Okun Hill was raised in the Selkirk-Interlake area where she edited the local high school newspaper and was later employed as a typesetter/reporter with the Regional News and as a communications specialist with The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Although she currently gardens words full-time in rural southwestern Ontario, she often returns to her Manitoba roots to visit extended family. She has one trade poetry book, four chapbooks, and several poems published in Canadian and American journals and anthologies. Follow her poetic and literary journey on her blog Kites Without Strings at https://okunhill.wordpress.com

Donna Frommelt-Ross

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Donna began writing stories for fun in first grade and she’s been writing short fiction ever since. Her first published story touches on topics that relate to her multicultural roots. Donna is part Ukrainian and part Saulteaux First Nations with a hint of German.

She attends the University of Winnipeg where she is currently working on completing her degree in Education through the Community-based Aboriginal Education Program (CATEP).

She and her husband, Mike, along with their two dogs live near the creek in Petersfield, MB.

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Ann Timonin

Ann Timonin is a retired English teacher with an interest in language and communication.

She is experimenting with different writing styles and attends a monthly workshop.

Besides contributing to Voices, she co-authored Chinese Characters, a collection of emails about a year teaching in China, with her husband.

Ann was our Featured Writer for October 2014.

View Ann’s stories and poems:

A Long Winding Road
Prairie Sunset
Connections
A Purr-fect Gentleman
Flushed
Winter Woods

 

Helma Rogue Raiders

H. RogueRaiders’ quirky joyous and exuberant perspective on life forms and life itself brings magic to her art. Be it arranging words to tell the story of her encounters with the resident snapping turtles or taking a paint brush loaded with colour to the canvas expressing the morning cacophony of water birds. To her own surprise she has executed her craft, on occasion, with sublime results. A colourful persona, Helma performs her own poetry engaging audiences with passion and wit.

Helma Rogge Rehders with her sister at Musi O Tunda Falls, Zamibia, 1978

Helma’s poetry submission to the Winnnipeg Free Press/The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba and received the First Prize for poetry in January 2014. Of late Helma is moonlighting as the BARD of local Interlake folklore, urban myths and never ending critter vignettes.

Helma was our Featured Writer for December 2014 and was also featured in March 2013.

Please visit Helma’s website to see more of her wonderful work.

First Place for poetry in the 2013 Winnipeg Free Press and The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba Writing contest.

Helma Rogge Rehder' paintint Rookery Bound

Judges:

  • Katherena Vermette, a Métis writer of poetry, fiction and children’s literature. Her first book, North End Love Songs won the Governor General Literary Award, and Lena Chartrand Award for activism in poetry.
  • Kellie Kamryn is a retired elite gymnast and competitive coach. Winner of the RONE (Reward of Novel Excellence) Award for Best Erotica 2012.

Judge’s comments: A beautiful reminder that when life gives you lemons, you must surrender, and make a poem. ‘like tortured copper i meld’  Wonderful imagery throughout and capture our attention from the beginning. ‘the accidental hitchhiker etched in starry darkness’. Top notch!

View Helma’s Poetry:

Lullaby For a Potted Tree
Writing on the Lake
Lake Winnipeg Smoked Whitefish Dip
Connected

 

 

Marlene Ness

Marlene is a freelance writer and web designer, who lives in Ponemah by the beach. She writes poetry and short fiction, and has been passionate about prose her whole life. Marlene has had several of her poems and short stories published in literary magazines and contest publications over the years. Her work is often inspired by nature and metaphysical ideas.

Marlene has worked in diverse professions, including news reporter, communications coordinator, real estate agent, and computer tech.

When not writing or designing, Marlene can be found meditating or walking on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, with her dogs.

Marlene was our Featured Writer for August 2014. Her poem goldfish took first place in the 2014 Write on the Lake Contest and opposite shore took second place.

More recently, her poem conduit won first place in the 2015 Write on the Lake Contest.

View Marlene’s Poetry:

opposite shore
conduit
hooded

 

 

Doreen Millichamp

Doreen was born in Toronto, Ontario and now resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her husband and son. Besides writing as a hobby, she enjoys painting.

She has published three books on The Campfire Boys Series. She had a number of her stories and poems published in the LWWG anthology, Voices. Her children’s stories have also appeared in several Manitoba newspapers. Manitoba’s Outdoor Edged magazine printed two stories about family fishing and hunting.

In addition to being a member of LWWG, Doreen is also a member of the Manitoba Christian Writers’ Association (MCWA). She is presenting her work through storytelling, and “Meet the Author” at schools, libraries and bookstores.

You may find more information at her website. Doreen was our January 2014 Featured Writer.

View Doreen’s stories:

Dog Days of Christmas
Sometimes Love is Silent

 

Pat Narynski

Pat Narynski is a poet and short story writer who draws on her Celtic roots to find the deeper meaning and beauty in the mundane of daily events as well as those pivotal moments that shape our lives. Her work has appeared in chapbooks and anthologies. She received a “national nod” when she was selected twice in three years for a Judges Choice Award in the Dr William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest.

Pat is a member of the Selkirk Writers Group and The League of Canadian Poets. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry.

She wishes to thank the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group for providing her with a venue to share her work.

Pat was our Featured Writer for July 2014.

View Pat’s poems:

herstory
Ruby