Wanda Nolan is a writer, story consultant, and filmmaker who lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Her National Film Board of Canada documentary The Muse has recently begun its festival run, earning the Best Canadian Short Documentary and Audience Choice Award for Best Short Documentary at Lunenburg Doc Fest, as well as Best Atlantic Short Documentary at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF). She is also the co-writer and co-director, with Lian Morrison, on the documentary Sing the World Better (Ruby Line Productions), which made its world premiere in January, 2026. It will air on CBC Gem later in the Spring.

Her scripted short films have been nominated and won awards nationally and internationally, including her first short Mystery of the Secret Room which has been used in school and university curriculums. She is also working with several producers on television projects – writing pilots, breaking novels, and developing pitch documentation.

She story consults for various film, television, and documentary projects, including with the National Film Board of Canada on features like Luben & Elena by Ellie Yonova, and Sons by Justin Simms.

In March 2020, she was honoured to be a Visiting Writer at the University of British Columbia School of Creative Writing. Wanda holds Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the university.