Gwynn Scheltema’s award-winning poetry and fiction have been published in anthologies, journals and magazines in Canada, and South Africa, online and in print. Her debut poetry collection Everchild will be released by Aeolus House this fall.Her chapbook Ten of Diamonds was released in 2021 by Glentula Press.
She co-founded, edited and published Lichen Arts & Letters Preview, the first literary journal in Durham Region.
She co-hosts the literary show "Word on the Hills" on CFWN 89.7 FM and volunteers as President of the Northumberland Festival of the Arts.
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Forthcoming from Aeolus House September 2023
Everchild is a collection of lyrical free-verse poems that follow a lifelong search for connection and identity: a portrait of a woman’s life fully lived, warts and all.
An Anthology of Incredible Immigrant Stories – true family stories about people who fled turmoil in their birth country and landed in Canada. Edited by Elaine Cougler
Beginning in 2012, The Sprit of the Hills Writers Group has produced, in conjunction with Blue Denim Press, a bi-annual anthology of poetry, short stories and memoir by writers of Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
The latest in the series is Hill Spirits V.
A poetry chapbook featuring FIVE Canadian poets: Stephen Laird, Ingrid Ruthig, Gwynn Scheltema, Andrea Stone and Ruth Walker. These poets formed the editorial board for Lichen Arts & Letters Preview and stepped out from behind the desk to put together this collection of their own poetry. Published by Whirling Dervish Press in 2003.
In the summer of 2011, a group of writers gathered at Mary Holme on Lake Simcoe, Ontario for a week-long residency with Pat Schnieder, founder of the Amherst Writers Association. There was much laughter and not a few tears and when it was over, we wanted something to remember this special time. James Dewar and Sue Reynolds of Piquant Press kindly agreed to produce this anthology. The contents are as varied as the writers.
During COVID-19 a group of Northumberland writers recorded what they did, what they wrote, what they felt, and how they rose to the challenges of the pandemic. It began as a blog and is now collected in this book Our Pandemic Times
Escape to write anywhere, anytime. At retreats run by Gwynn Scheltema and Ruth Walker, participants asked for this book…so here it is: a retreat in your pocket or backpack full of prompts and selfcare for any writer.
View BookPoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
