Marjorie Simmins has been a professional writer and editor since 1991. For most of the 1990s, her writing centred on the commercial and sport fisheries of Canada's west coast. These articles occasioned travel around British Columbia, as well as to the North Pole and the Aleutian Islands. For several years she was also the BC correspondent for the trade newspaper Fishermen's News, in Seattle, WA, and copy-editor for Westcoast Publications Ltd and BC Sport Fishing magazine.
Simmins' non-fiction essays have been published in provincial and national magazines, newspapers across Canada, and in Canadian and American anthologies. An essay published in Saturday Night magazine in May 1993 ("Trips from There to Here") was awarded a Gold Medal at the 1994 National Magazine Awards.
In 1997, Simmins moved from Vancouver, BC to Isle Madame, Nova Scotia. Since then, her work has ranged from book and restaurant reviews, to profiles on the sizzling best of Cape Breton musicians, writers and artists. Essay themes include family, animals and coastal perspectives, as well as differences between rural and urban living. Her essays and articles continue to appear in provincial newspapers and magazines, and national magazines.
Marjorie Simmins has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. She is married to Silver Donald Cameron, one of Canada's most versatile and prolific professional authors.
- Essays from Contemporary Culture. Katherine Anne Achley, Editor, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995
- Tides. Harbour Publishing, 1996.
Halifax Chronicle Herald
Montreal Gazette
National Post
Richmond Review
Toronto Star
Vancouver Sun
BC Woman
BC Extreme
BC Sport Fishing
Canadian Inflight
Canadian Living
East Coast Living
Nova Scotia Open to the World
Pacific Fishing
Pacific Yachting
Saltscapes
Saturday Night
The Cape Bretoner
Westcoast Fisherman; Westcoast Logger; Westcoast Mariner
TREK (formerly UBC Alumni Chronicle)
