about

Shayne Woodsmith is a filmmaker, photographer, and an award-winning writer. His debut novel, Twenty-Seven, is a fast-paced, thought-provoking and, at times, utterly frantic, work of science fiction that exposes the darker side of a health-obsessed world and delivers a disarmingly honest portrayal of human frailty and strength through the lens of one tormented outcast. His second novel, My Brother Mercy, is a won the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards winner. His work has appeared in Carte Blanche and Inscribed: A Magazine for Writers.

Shayne’s film writing and directing credits include the ten minute mockumentary, Obey the Signs, Payphone, a short film featured at the 2013 Toronto Urban Film Festival, Tourist and Time Travel which were both featured at the Edmonton’s Gotta Minute Film Festival. Shayne is also the creator of Faces of Edmonton, a Humans of New York inspired photoblog and book that showcases Edmonton through the portraits and stories of the people who animate the city, the folks who stopped to talk to a camera-toting stranger.