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Freelance Writer | Columnist | Author | Awards | Memberships

Freelance Writer

Zoë has been a freelance writer since 1985. The following is an abridged list of publications/media Zoë has contributed to.

ADDitude Magazine
CBC Radio One
Dogs Annual
The Kingston Whig-Standard
The London Free Press
Maclean's Magazine
MORE Magazine
MS. Magazine
Ontario Living Magazine
Owen Sound Sun Times
site/sound magazine
Today's Parent Magazine
Toronto Computes!
The Toronto Sun

Columnist

Sun Times, Owen Sound, Ontario
- weekly humour/news column

SCENE Magazine, Guelph, Ontario
- weekly editorial column for arts & entertainment magazine

AUTHOR

NOTE: Michelle McColm is the pen name for Adoption Reunions, written by Zoë Kessler

Adoption Reunions, a non-fiction trade book, now in its third printing, published by Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1993

From back cover:

Adoption Reunions is the most comprehensive book about reunions so far. Michelle McColm, in drawing on her own experience and those of other reuniting participants, has presented a sensitive and compassionate guide for those involved in all phases of the reunion process.

~ NANCY VERRIER, MFCC, adoptive mother, author of The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adoptive Child

Adoption Reunions is a remarkable book that provides a balanced, compassionate, objective and comprehensive assessment of adoption and reunion experiences involving challenges and rewards, fears and hopes, anguish and joy. McColm offers valuable suggestions that can provide a road map for those who have experienced or are contemplating adoption and reunion. ...a must-read for those working in the field of adoption.

~ PAUL SACHDEV, PH.D., author of Unlocking the Adoption Files & Adoption: Current Issues and Trends (ed.)

AWARDS

1993 - Won International juried competition to Banff Arts Centre Screenwriting Course, Banff, Alberta

MEMBERSHIPS

Member, The Writers' Union of Canada