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Breakfast Meeting, November 16, 2024

Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada. He began writing as a teenager living in Sri Lanka and has never stopped. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004 and his first short story collection, Fringe Dwellers, in 2008. His novel, After the Flood, a dystopian epic set in the aftermath of global warming, was released in November 2009, and won the Canadian Christian Writers award for best Futuristic/Fantasy novel in 2010. Shane’s last collection of short stories, Crossing Limbo, was published in 2017. His latest novel, released in 2022, is Empire in the Sand, a tale of pharmaceutical scandals, robocalls electioneering, and family breakdown. His short stories and articles have appeared in several Canadian anthologies and in literary journals around the world.

His career stints include: stage and radio actor, pop musician, encyclopedia salesman, lathe machine operator, airline executive, travel agency manager, vice president of a global financial services company, software services salesperson, publishing editor, project manager and management consultant.

Self-taught, with four degrees under his belt obtained through distance education, Shane is an avid traveller and has visited one country for every year of his life and lived in four of them. He fondly recalls incidents during his travels as real lessons he could never have learned in school: husky riding in Finland with no training, trekking the Inca Trail in Peru through an unending rainstorm, hitch-hiking in Australia without a map, escaping a wild elephant in Zambia, and being stranded without money in Denmark, are some of his memories.

After immigrating (twice), raising a family, building a career, and experiencing life’s many highs and lows, Shane has carved out a niche in Cobourg, Ontario with his wife Sarah, where he continues to work, write, and play his guitar.

Shane Joseph, believes in the gift of second chances. He feels that he has lived many lives in just a single lifetime, always starting from scratch with only the lessons from the past to draw upon. His novels and stories reflect the redemptive power of acceptance and forgiveness.

2024-25 WEN Board



At the Annual General Meeting in July, 2024, the new WEN Board was nominated to serve beginning September, 2024.
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 Mayer
Director at Large           Zohra Zoberi

Thelma Wheatley Launches Her Latest Novel

The Girls of Priory Hall

New young naïve teacher, Isla Owen, is drawn into a passionate affair with an older experienced woman, sixty year-old Miss Annersley, the administrator of Priory Hall School for Girls, “run on English lines” in the Eastern Townships of Quebec Province in the mid-1960’s.
Isla’s naïve illusions about boarding school life are based on the school-girl stories of her youth and contrast with her poor working-class background in England. They are part of her deep attraction for Miss Annersley, against the back-drop of a “real” boarding-school.
When Isla and her lover are accidentally outed the story comes to a powerful horrifying climax.

Available in paperback on Amazon.

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