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SPIRITUALITY, METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY, ANCIENT MYTHS
IN FICTION AND IN FACT |
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Stanislaw Kapuscinski, (aka Stan I.S. Law) an architect,
sculptor and writer was educated in Poland and England. Since
1965 he has resided in Canada. His special interests cover a
broad spectrum of arts, sciences and philosophy. His fiction
(10 + novels) and non-fiction (6) as well as two collections
of poetry and short stories, attest to his particular passion
for the scope and the development of human potential.
As an architect [RIBA, MRAIC,
OAQ ret.], he designed a number high rise buildings in Montreal,
including the
Regency Hyatt Hotel (now Delta), Place Mercantile, Headquarters for the Mutual Alliance,
as well as low and middle rise structures for the Quebec Natural
Gas Corporation, Bell Canada, the Gomarc Building and other private
clients. In the National Capital he was the associate in charge
of design of Royal Bank Headquarters on Sparks Street.
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| Laurie Crookell is a full-time mother of two, born and raised in Ontario, but now residing in Coquitlam, BC. Her skills and interests range from the artistic to the academic. She holds a BA in Economics, is a skilled pianist, and currently works as a math and literacy tutor, specializing in children with developmental challenges. Being raised with an autistic brother, and being mother to a daughter who is on the autism spectrum have provided her with unique life challenges that have given her a deep and passionate insight into the power of human potential. |
| In her spare time, Laurie indulges her love of literature through reading and writing. She has recently completed her first middle-grade novel, “Octopus Soup”, and is excited to begin writing both a young adult and adult novel in which the main characters deal with an invisible, yet challenging disability. |
| Laurie Crookell is the Winner of the 2010t Human Potential Non-Fiction
Contest |
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colourful jack-of-all-trades, Mark Meincke has worked
as a successful Realtor, an inventor, and an adult literacy tutor.
He has served as a UN Peacekeeper and as an instructor for The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Currently, he is the president
elect for the Edmonton Chapter of Business Networking International.
He and his wife have two children and live on a picturesque acreage
outside Edmonton, Alberta Canada. |
| Mark
Maincke is the Winner of the First Human Potential Non-Fiction
Contest |
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read his essays please click HERE
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| Zainab Amadahy is a mother, writer and activist. Her publications include the novel Moons of Palmares (1998, Sister Vision Press) as well as an essay in the anthology Strong Women’s Stories: Native Vision & Community Activism, (Lawrence & Anderson, 2004, Sumach Press). Most recently Zainab has contributed to In Breach of the Colonial Contract (Arlo Kemp, ED) by co-authoring “Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?”. |
| Zainab Amadahy is the Winner of the 2010 Human Potential Fiction
Contest |
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read her short story please click HERE |
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Bob Wakulich received an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of British Columbia in 1999. He also holds
a BFA in Writing with a Film Studies Minor from the University
of Victoria (1996), a BA in Sociology from Lakehead University
(1977), and he attended the Banff School of Fine Arts Summer
Writing Workshop in 1979 and 1980.
His short stories, poems, and commentaries have appeared in a
number of journals, magazines, and anthologies in Canada, the
US, and Europe, as well as on CBC Radio and in cyberspace.. |
| He currently lives in Cranbrook,
British Columbia with his wife and four cats, teaches at the
local college, and writes a weekly humor column for the Cranbrook
Daily Townsman. |
| Bob Wakulich is the Winner of the First Human Potential
Writing Competition - fiction |
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read his short story please click HERE
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Ronda Hatton was born and raised on a dairy farm
in Oklahoma and currently resides in sunny San Diego, California.
As a sociologist, her profession
and passion lie in helping children discover and release their
own potential thereby discovering and releasing her own. She
has also been a court-appointed special advocate in the San Diego
Juvenile Court speaking for those whose young voices are often
not perceived by the ears of authority.
She is currently making her
way through her "Things to do While Alive" list, which
includes trekking across the US and completing her first novel,
"Thirsty in the Rain" by the end of the year. |
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read her short story please click HERE
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Fred Meissner says: "I decided to 'live life to the fullest'
by playing at writing and working as a high school English/Special
Education teacher; having enjoyed some success in both areas,
I will eventually retire from teaching, build a papier-mâché
glider from my rejection slips, and soar peacefully into Oblivion's
misty realms.
I do, however, have a few
recent publishing credits: they include Ascent Aspirations, Electro-Twaddle,
Armada Quarterly, Poetry Canada, and a broadside for Rubicon
Press. As well Cezanne's Carrot, Toward the Light, and The Fieldstone
Review have each published one of my personal essays and I've
had the opportunity to read some of my work at the Eden Mills
Writers Festival." |
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Edward McDermott. Born in Toronto, Edward has pursued
a professional career during the day, while taking writing courses,
joining writer's groups, and writing at night. When not writing,
he spends his time sailing and fencing. Currently, he is planning
to sail around the world and preparing his boat while sailing
in the Caribbean. His
latest publication of Fiction are:
| No Retreat,
Wild Child Publishing, (June 2007) |
| Debt of
Honor, Hereditas(Fall 2007) |
| The Prize,
Aoife's Kiss, (March 2007) |
| The Lady
at the Grave, T-Zero(February 2007) |
| Moonlight
Snow, paperplates(January 2007) |
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read his short story please click HERE
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Krystyna Laycraft, theoretical physicist, painter and
photographer was born in Poland. She finished her study at The
University of Warsaw. After moving to Canada, she worked as a
scientist at The University of Calgary on Aurora Borealis and
studied art by attending variety courses.
Her fascination with nature
as an artist is expressed in painting and photographing dynamic
systems, like flowing water, moving, and changing color and shape
clouds, growing trees, plants and flowers.
As a physicist, she wants to share with people beauty and richness
of the chaos theory.
Chaos is about letting go, and the possibility of living not
as controllers of nature but as creative participators. By paying
attention to tiny and insignificant things, we open ourselves
to creative dimensions. |
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read her essays please click HERE
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Jeremy Garwood was born near Reading, UK. After studies
in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Exeter, he worked
as a research assistant on insect moulting hormones, then travelled
for six months across Southern Asia and Eastern Australia to
the Australian National University. Here, he spent several years
investigating the molecular biology of insect development for
his PhD. His post-doctoral research in France at the Institut
Jacques Monod, Paris was upon hormonal control of fly gene expression,
and the regulation of chromosome replication in bacteria. In
Heidelberg, Germany, he discovered an interest for the extracellular
matrix in mouse brains, and he has cloned and investigated several
of the molecules implicated in brain formation and repair, a
topic that he has pursued in Strasbourg, France.
He has published numerous
scientific research reports, reviews and book chapters, but 'ABCPhD'
is his first completed novel. He will work on his second novel
during a sabbatical year in Montreal, Canada. |
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read his short story please click HERE
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