Writer • Editor • Educator
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2016 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, which were revealed yesterday. They are: Lorimer Shenher for That Lonely Section of Hell, Ann Walmsley for The Prison Book Club and Sheila Watt-Cloutier for The Right to Be Cold. The winner will be revealed later this month, with the award ceremony…
When I was invited to become the editor-in-chief of J-Source almost three years ago, it was to help shepherd the site through a period I’ve come to think of as its late adolescence and early adulthood. After all, the site was about to leave its place of birth, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and strike out…
One of the best things about online magazines is their interest in reviewing books that aren’t hot off the press, which is a big deal for books that don’t make the front page of a national newspaper’s art section or get selected as part of a celebrity book club. To wit: a review of A…
Something I often hear from my students is that living and studying in Brantford is nothing like they expected–essentially, it’s better. But many of them admit to having misgivings about the city before they got here. As many of them come from the Greater Toronto Area, or other major metropolitan centres, they worry about what…
As announced last week, J-Source is now seeking its next editor-in-chief, who will take over for me when my three-year term is up this spring. I can’t quite believe that it’s been three-ish years since I took over from Janice Neil. We’ve accomplished a lot in that time, including launching a new site, increasing the…