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Breakfast Meeting, February 21, 2026

David Nickle

David Nickle is an author and journalist living and working in Toronto. His fiction has been published in magazines, anthologies and online, and been adapted for television. In 1997, he and Edo Van Belkom won a Bram Stoker Award for their short story “Rat Food.” In 1993, he and Karl Schroeder co-wrote “The Toy Mill” and won an Aurora Award for short form work in English. Some of his stories are collected in Monstrous Affections, and Knife Fight and Other Struggles.

He is the author of several novels: Rasputin’s Bastards, The ‘Geisters, Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism and Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination all available from Open Road Media. He is married to author and futurist Madeline Ashby.

2025-26 WEN Board


At the Annual General Meeting in June 2025, the new WEN Board was nominated to serve beginning September, 2025.

President            Maria Marchelletta
Vice-President       Jasmine Jackman
Secretary            Geetaa Sharma
Treasurer            Maurus Cappa
Membership Coord     Anna Stitski
Breakfast Coord      Anna Stitski
Director at Large    Aviva Mayers
Director at Large    Zohra Zoberi
Director at Large    Delsin Holder

WEN Plans 25th Anniversary Anthology

WEN was founded in 2001. Below is a photo of the founders.

Patricia Armstrong, Marilyn Fraser, Marjorie Ludlow-Green, Lawrence Coughlin and Mickey Turnbull-Coughlin

2026 will mark the 25th Anniversary of the Writers and Editors Network Association. To mark the occasion, WEN is planning to publish an Anthology of Poems and Short Stories by members. This will be our fourth anthology and the title will be Canadian Imprints, Volume IV, 25th Anniversary. WEN is currently soliciting entries from members and the target is to publish the anthology by the fourth quarter of 2026 and to celebrate our 25th Anniversary at the Annual Holiday Party in December, 2026.

 

 

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