Shanon Sinn

Shanon Sinn lives on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees), and Wyomlith (Esquimalt) Nations. Shanon acknowledges he is a guest on this land, as well as a guest on the territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht Nation where he stays part time in Tofino.

He is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. Shanon is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat – a collection of eerie tales set in BC’s Pacific Northwest. The Haunting of British Columbia: Sea Lore and Ghost Stories has been his research and writing focus for several years while he simultaneously attended school and illustrated comics.

Shanon will receive his Comics and Graphic Novels certificate in April 2024 from Camosun College in Victoria, BC. He has a writing degree from Vancouver Island University where he was awarded the Barry Broadfoot Award for Journalism and the Gisele Merlet Creative Writing Award. His study focus at VIU was on Indigenous topics, which included Elder teachings, an Elder internship, and attending field school at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska where he was taught protocol for recording oral stories.

Shanon Sinn is a Member of The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) and is a Greater Vancouver Horror Writers Association (HWA) Chapter Member. He was a host for Folklore Thursday on Twitter for over four years and for Wyrd Wednesday for one year.

He lives with chronic, non-visible disabilities including pervasive nerve damage.

 

Shanon Sinn enlightens history with haunting stories by Dave Flawse, Vancouver Island History

In a hunt for haunts, Victoria has twisted its own past by Michael John Lo, Capital Daily

Meet Me in the Stacks podcast with Darby at Vancouver Island Regional Library

The Missing and Unexplained Podcast with Tyler Hooper

Shanon Sinn, author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island, another interviewee who participated in our Tzouhalem documentary Orca Cove Media

Shanon Sinn on writing The Haunting of Vancouver Island by Ed Sum, Otaku No Culture

Spaced Out Radio: Ghosts of the Great White North podcast with Dave Scott

Some Other Sphere Podcast with Rick Palmer

Q & A with Shanon Sinn – Joshua Gillingham

A few more interviews

 

Social Media, on occasion

twitter @shanonsinn           instagram @shanonsinn           facebook page @HauntedVancouverIsland

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