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 received his Comics and Graphic Novels certificate in April of 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 Federation of BC Writers. He is also 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