Shawne Yukimi MacIntyre is a writer of children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction.
She is working on her second Middle Grade novel which tells a story of friendship, justice and judo from the confines of a World War II Japanese-Canadian internment camp, in 1943. She gratefully acknowledges support from the Community Fund of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society for this project. She also wishes to thank the National Association of Japanese Canadians for funding support of this same project.
Her first Middle Grade novel was a finalist for the CANSCAIP Writing for Children’s Competition, 2023, and was selected for the Annick Press Mentorship Program in Fall, 2023. She was the Writer in Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House (Vancouver) for January, 2024. For related events, see here.
Her writing has been published in WordWorks Magazine, Emerge 21, Ricepaper Magazine, Montecristo Magazine, and across various blogs.
S. Yukimi lives, works and writes on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh nations, also called Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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