Writer • Editor • Educator
I’m pleased to welcome Pauline Dakin, author of Run, Hide Repeat and winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Laurier’s Brantford campus next week. On Friday, Nov. 9, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, I’ll be hosting a public conversation with Dakin about her memoir in Read Lounge, on the lower…
Over the past year, I’ve been working with a team of Digital Media and Journalism students on a special project. It’s called Ask Our Alumni, and its goal is to introduce students to one of Laurier’s most valuable resources—our more than 100,000 alumni. The idea came from my time as a magazine writer and editor,…
The timing couldn’t have been better. I came home from my last class of the fall semester to find a box full of the first editions of my new textbook, News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory, published by Oxford University Press. There’s nothing like the feeling of seeing your book in…
Mark your calendars! Please join me in welcoming author Sonja Larsen, winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Brantford on Friday, Nov. 10. I’ll be hosting a live question-and-answer session with Larsen from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Reid Lounge in the Carnegie Building on Laurier’s Brantford campus. This…
Sonja Larsen is the winner of the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her memoir, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary. As I’m quoted as saying in the news release, “As is the case with lives themselves, all memoirs are unique, but this seems especially true of Sonja Larsen’s Red…