Floyd Spracklin

Floyd Spracklin is a Canadian writer and editor.

Floyd’s four books, Shellbird, The Gaff Topsail Encounters: Facing the Wind, The Write Day, and Beyond Shellbird are all published by DRC Publishers (www.drcpublishingnl.com) of St. John’s, NL. Academy Canada currently uses these in their Adult Basic Education English curriculum.

Floyd’s editing and published writing run the gamut from magazine and newspaper articles to works of fiction and non-fiction. He contributed a chapter for Cassie Brown’s Writing the Sea (2005), He edited and wrote the Foreword for Jennifer Yolanda Elms’ Off the Rock: The Road Less Traveled (2017) and David Wesley Sheppard’s Orphanage: Life Changes Forever. Most recently he was proof editor for Rob Hutchings’ Downriver Nomad (2021), and a mentor for Jerome Jesseau’s Running Before the Wind: The Life and Times of Wilfred Osmond, an Extraordinary Ordinary Newfoundlander (2022).

In his spare time, Floyd is a hobbyist painter who uses mostly scenes from in and around The Topsails Plateau. A few of these have even been featured in some of his books. When he is not writing, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and walking the barrens with his wife and family at their cabin on The Gaff.

Floyd is a proud member of both The Writers Union of Canada and Writers NL. When not working on his next book or editing a fellow-writer’s work, Floyd promotes his published work whenever and wherever he can.