Name: 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover (Homicide at Home)
Start: 2026-08-15T13:30:00-0600
End: 2026-08-15T14:45:00-0600

A Festival for Writers, Readers, and Fans

50 Ways to Kill Your Lover (Homicide at Home)

Saturday August 15, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm MDT

Hyatt Regency Calgary - Herald

We think of home as safe. But danger can lurk there too - a garden full of poisonous plants, a kitchen full of knives, steep staircases just waiting for a fall, and more. Our panelists will share the many ways they have killed off people in their writing, and the research that goes into committing the perfect crime on a page. Audience participation encouraged. Correctly answer a murderous question related to Sisters in Crime – Canada West’s upcoming fourth biennial anthology, Crime Wave 4: Home Sweet Homicide and be entered for a prize draw at the end of the session!

Session Sponsor: Sisters In Crime , Canada West (SinC)

Moderators

Linda Sanche

President, Sisters in Crime - Canada West

Linda Sanche’s debut mystery, Off the Mark (Signature Editions), will be published this fall and she is working on the sequel, Circuit Breaker. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies, including War of the Words Volume Two 2025: Lovers, Liars and Labyrinths... Read More →

Presenters

JE Barnard

Developmental Editor, Incisive Editing Services

Calgary author J.E. Barnard writes & edits award-winning fiction. Her first Falls Mystery, When the Flood Falls (Dundurn Press, 2018) brought home the CWC Award of Excellence. Her second Maddie Hatter Adventure, Maddie Hatter & the Gilded Gauge (Tyche Books 2017) was an Alberta Book of the Year. She’s been a finalist for the UK Debut Dagger & the Prix Aurora for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. A developmental editor for Incisive Editing Services, she finds extra fulfillment in book reviewing & literary juries. Find... Read More →

Pamela Donison

Immediate Past President, Sisters in Crime Canada West

Pamela Donison, JD, (PJ Donison) writes soft boiled murder mysteries and women’s literary fiction. Her self published works include the Camelia Belmont Mystery Series: Death Comes For Christmas (2022), Death At The Crossroads (2024), and Death of the Butcher (Fall 2026).

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Merrilee Robson

I have written over 40 short stories, mostly in the crime genre, appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the People’s Friend, and various anthologies in Canada, the UK, and the USA. Writing short stories provides opportunities for variety and... Read More →

Susan Calder

Calgary writer Susan Calder is the author of six novels published by BWL Publishing Inc. Four of the books are part of her Paula Savard Mystery Series and the fifth is a standalone suspense novel set in Calgary and California. Susan’s most recent mystery novel, A Killer Whisky,... Read More →

Saturday August 15, 2026 1:30pm - 2:45pm MDT
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Herald

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When Words Collide 2026

Linda Sanche

JE Barnard

Pamela Donison

Merrilee Robson

Susan Calder

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When Words Collide 2026

Linda Sanche

JE Barnard

Pamela Donison

Merrilee Robson

Susan Calder

Attendees (18)

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