Media & Events
Sept 12 Author Hours at Peterborough Public Library in Peterborough, Ontario (5:30 pm to 7:45 pm)
Aug 25 Art of Feminine Negotiation Podcast Episode 272: Negotiating the Writer’s Life
August 2 Chapters Indigo in Ajax, Ontario (1-4 pm)
July 2025 Art of Feminine Negotiation Podcast Episode 265: Negotiating Women’s Voice and Power (including feminine rage and resilience)
May 3, 2025 Jane’s Walk Ottawa, Plotlines and Pathways, Public Reading
May 2, 2025 Ottawa International Festival of Writers, Past to Present, historical fiction panel with Linda McQuaig, Jack Wang and moderator, Susan Johnston
April 26, 2025 Independent Book Store Day, Blue Heron Books
April 24, 2025 Muskoka Authors Association, author talk
Feb 4, 2025, Oshawa Public Library, author talk
Jan 2025 “Book Nuts Rejoice”- arts & entertainment journalist Jamie Portman selects UNREST as one of his favourite 2024 reads.
Nov 9 2024 Perth Writerfest by Sparks Books, interviewed by Susan Code McDougall
Nov 6 2024 Perfect Books in Ottawa, author event
Oct 19 2024 Lynde House Museum in Whitby, Ontario, author talk
Sept 19, 2024 Take Cover Books in Peterborough, interview by author Heather O’Connor
Aug 24, 2024 Novel Spot Books, author talk
June 2024 Unrest is named a recommended read by Canada Living Magazine.
May 2024 A Different Drummer Books, Author breakfast series (along with Denise Chong and Miranda Newman)
May 2024 National Post interview with Jamie Portman, “An edgy adventure yarn about women’s freedom”
May 2024 Interview by internationally renowned Canadian author, Genevieve Graham.
May 2024 Radio Interview with Jaimie Tennant on GET LIT Podcast.
May 2024 Radio interview with Susan Johnston of the Friday Special Blend on CKCU FM (Carleton University)
May 2024 Interview with TV host Jacquie Hermans on Rogers TV: Uxbridge Scugog Life (at 16:48).
May 7 2024 UNREST is released in hardcover, ebook and audiobook.
November 2022: Random House Canada executive editor and VP Anne Collins and editorial assistant Lauren Park have acquired Canadian English rights to Gwen Tuinman’s Unrest. The deal was arranged by Marilyn Biderman at Transatlantic Agency.
September 2022, Waking Up, personal essay published in Blank Spaces Magazine Volume 7, Issue 1.
August 2022, represented by Marilyn Biderman, Partner and Senior Agent at Transatlantic Agency
January 2022, How my Little Free Library helped build a community, Iexpanded version published in Reader’s Digest Canada.
August 23, 2021 Faces of Whitby interview.
March 18, 2021: My Little Free Library has helped build a community – The Globe and Mail published in print and online
October 4, 2020: The Wild Nellies Celebration of Womxn, at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, at Oshawa, Ontario: online event possible in lieu of cancellation due to COVID 19
August 2020 (Date TBA): The Wild Nellies Meet-up for Womxn Creatives: online event.
July 13-17, 2020: Writer in Residence at Lynde House Museum, Whitby Ontario; Author talk ( July 6, 2020), Memoir Writing (July 10, 2020): Online event, details forthcoming)
May 7 2024 UNREST is released in hardcover, ebook and audiobook.
June 18, 2020: Online Book Club featuring “The Last Hoffman” and Gwen Tuinman, hosted by Whitby Town Councillor Maleeha Shahid and Facebook Group: Showcasing Local Whitby Novelist, Authors, Writers Poets and Artists
June 5, 2020: Interview with at Reads, Writes, Reviews with Annie Whitehead, award winning British author and historian
March 29, 2020: Inglorious Women 2 (presented by Oshawa Opera), in Oshawa Ontario: cancelled due to COVID 19
March 19, 2020: Spring High Tea (Author Talk) at Oshawa Golf and Curling Club, in Oshawa Ontario: cancelled due to COVID 19
March 2020: release of: The Last Hoffman
March 2020: release of Portrait of an Escape: A Story of Fleeing Domestic Abuse
Jan 16, 2020: The Wild Nellies Meet-up for Women Creatives, Station Gallery, Whitby Ontario (host and panel moderator