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Frances Olioff - ELIMINATED NOVEMBER 27TH, 2009 Born in Montreal, Quebec, but having lived most of her adult life in Toronto, Frances has written short fiction and non-fiction pieces since she was a teenager. She has an interest in Eastern religions, practices meditation, and earns her living as a librarian, a profession she got into because she loved being around books (library customers, not so much).
Diana Daoust- DARK IDOL 2009-2010 WINNER Diana Daoust is an English, Science and Business teacher and a fledgling writer of poetry and fiction. She has a husband and a mentally deficient cat. Diana is the administrator of the Pandora Poetry contest in Manitoba for K-12 students. She won the Sheldon Oberman award for poetry in 2006 and since then has had nothing published because surprisingly teaching, coaching volleyball and directing school plays takes up most of her time. In her spare time she is taking her Master's in Education, but what she really likes to do is ignore her marking and her husband and read. View this cycle's submission from Diana here.
Missy Mouse - ELIMINATED NOVEMBER 13TH, 2009 Missy Mouse is a college student specializing in animal science. She is also involved in animal rescue and dog fostering. She lives in St. Catharine's with her 3 children, and a whole lot of animals. This is her first entry to a writing competition and she is ecstatic at the opportunity.
Sydney Leigh - ELIMINATED JANUARY 29TH, 2010 Sydney Leigh is a freelance writer, photographer, and artist with degrees in English, Psychology, and Graphic Design & Digital Imaging. When she isn't teaching 7th grade English, you might find her training dogs, cooking, or looking for homes for her collection of short stories and poetry. She is a member of a local writer and artists' guild, and runs creative writing programs for youths. She lives on the north shore of Massachusetts with her new husband, son, Border Collie, and two rats.
Maria Halagan - ELIMINATED DECEMBER 12TH, 2009 Maria Halagan lives in Hilton, NY and has been writing horror on and off for most of her life. A lover of the genre for as long as she can remember, she will read any horror story she can find and has practically taken out a second mortgage to support her book buying habit. She helped form a critique group with several other horror junkies and rediscovered her passion for writing. Her short story "Wish Bone" won third place in the 2006 Horror/Ghost Contest in The Writers' Journal.
Matthew Kirshenblatt - ELIMINATED DECEMBER 25TH, 2009 Matthew Kirshenblatt is not talking in the third person at all. He is, in fact, my new 27 year old form in Toronto, Ontario that I use to create stories in order to spread my essence to all the minds that read them so that I can expand on my very existence and power. At this very moment, however, he is studying to be a Master of Humanities at York University: specializing in aspects of mythology and the comics medium. He is currently learning to become resistant to budgies -- my one weakness -- and failing. Miserably.
Samuel Minier - ELIMINATED JANUARY 15TH, 2010 Samuel Minier has published over fifty stories and poems in publications such as the Read by Dawn anthologies, the Chiaroscuro webzine, and Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul (but don't tell anyone about that last one). He also just returned from the Austin Film Festival where his feature length script finished as a Semi-Finalist (top 8 out of 500 entrants) in the screenplay contest. When not writing, Sam pays his bills as a full-time social worker and also spends time volunteering at the local animal shelter and throwing overly-elaborate Halloween parties (363 days til the next one).
Douglas T. Araujo - ELIMINATED MARCH 5TH, 2010 is a Brazilian writer who lives in Sao Paulo with his wife, two children, and a dog. Born during the Halloween night of 1970, he has been an avid reader since his childhood, with a strong preference for the speculative fiction. He began writing during his childhood, mainly mystery and science fiction stories, but it was only when he began writing horror that he knew he had found his true vocation. His work has appeared since then in several magazines and anthologies, such as "The Asylum - Vol 3", "The Blackest Death - Vol. 1 and 2" and "Sideshow: Tales of the big top and the bizarre". View this cycle's submission from Douglas here.
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