Mary W. Walters
Mary W. Walters is a freelance writer and editor who has worked extensively with researchers and scholars from universities and colleges throughout North America for more than twenty years. The former awards facilitator at the University of Saskatchewan, she is also a popular grant-writing workshop leader and consultant for grant applicants from all disciplines. Write An Effective Funding Application: A Guide for Researchers and Scholars (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) is her first book of non-fiction.
Mary has published three books of fiction--two novels and a collection of short stories--as well as dozens of stories and essays in literary journals and other periodicals. (For details please see the bio page.)
Mary also maintains several blogs. At her Militant Writer site, which attracted 14,000 hits within six weeks of its launch and continues to enjoy a strong ongoing readership, you can read how literary agents are destroying literature and what book publishers can do to stop them, how editors will finally regain their proper status in the books business, and essays on a variety of other subjects of interest to writers with a serious interest in the literary arts.
Mary’s other blogs include one where she occasionally posts book reviews, another focusing on films and movies, and (at the moment) one in which she is chronicling her move from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Toronto, Ontario (It is entitled, “I am moving to Toronto. Please don’t try to stop me”).
