Join us Tuesday, January 21 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring the Westbank Writers with host Meaghan Hackinen and readers Geneva Ensign, Jeane Manning, Tanya Sarah Pauls, and Irwin Wislesky. Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!
*This event will be recorded.
Geneva Ensign has lived much of her adult life in Alberta, and further north, after moving to Canada in 1965 with her family from the United States. Her professional career involved working in northern Canadian communities for over forty years as an individual and group psychotherapist, mainly with Indigenous communities.
Retired, she is now a full-time author living in West Kelowna, British Columbia. Her first book, Community Healing: A Transcultural Model, was published by Hancock House in 2018. Her latest book, Whittlings: The Human Conditioned as Experienced by F. Robert Langin, was published just this fall and is co-authored with Laurie Finer, daughter of Robert Langin. In between her first and last book, Geneva published two books of poetry, a book of legends from Manus Island, PNG, and a book about her brother’s adventures in Alaska. All are available on Amazon.ca.
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For decades, Jeane Manning has been interviewing physicists, inventors and engineers involved in non-conventional energy breakthroughs. She is internationally known for her books about truly clean alternatives and what Nikola Tesla’s followers are learning about working in harmony with Nature’s ways.
She has bridged from the science to the public by authoring The Coming Energy Revolution (Avery Publishing Group of NY, 1996) and Energie (Omega Verlag, Germany, 2002) and co-authoring other books including indie-published Breakthrough Power (2011) and Hidden Energy (2019). Based in Kelowna, Jeane is currently working on a book for today’s unprecedented times. https://jeanemanning.com/
Tanya Sarah Pauls was born on Christmas Day in 1969. She took up writing in 1989 when she travelled extensively around the States, Europe and Canada with her father studying his gentle bodywork called Ortho-Bionomy.
Tanya's first works were poetry, journal-writing then short stories as well as fine art and photography. In 1990 she travelled solo across-the-board Canada and ended up in Kelowna, BC and opened up a therapeutic practice of her father's work and would often write articles for local magazines.
Tanya settled down a few years later and had two kids with her husband at the time, though stole moments to write. When she left her husband six years ago, she felt inspired to write a time travel book that is currently still in the works and has a few more under the back burner.
More recently Tanya is working on children's dog adventure stories and a mystery and gets great feedback and encouragement from the Westbank Writers group and would love to be published soon. She is very happy to share her work and be part of the Spotlight series.
Irwin Wislesky: I have worked as an engineer most of my life and am currently nearing retirement. My focus in life has primarily been on the physical, designing structures to suit the physical world. However, my work has required travel around the globe where I developed a strong sense of and connection to spirituality, the other half of life, through observation and interaction with numerous souls birthed in numerous cultures.
About 5 years ago, while traveling on one of my many long trips to Peru, I remembered a kiss on my cheek that I received from my mother the moment she died. I was physically very far away. I wrote that memory on the back of my plane ticket and my first novel was born (Invisible Footprints In Time?). I enjoyed the writing experience so much and have started a sequel as well as another fictional story loosely based on my family’s beginning in Canada in the early 1900s.
Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelong hunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023. This year, she is gearing up to compete in the Mountain Race Series, a trio of self-supported adventures that take place in the remote wilderness of Morocco, Greece, and Kyrgyzstan. Find her online: meaghanhackinen.com
