J-Source seeks its next editor-in-chief
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…
Wilfrid Laurier University
NASH feature-writing slides
I had a great time at the NASH conference in Toronto last week (which I have to point out was co-organized by a graduate of Laurier’s Digital Media and Journalism program, Allison Leonard). I met…
Edna Staebler and the Lives of Women
For the past year or so, a lot of my research time has been focused on the magazine writing Edna Staebler did early in her career, mostly for Maclean’s and Chatelaine. As I’ve written before,…
Lynn Thomson at Laurier Brantford
On November 6, I’m pleased to be hosting a one-on-one session with author Lynn Thomson, who won this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction with her book Birding With Yeats. This free, public event…
Edna Staebler, literary journalist
I’m pleased to share some research I’ve been working on for the past couple of years about Edna Staebler’s legacy as a pioneering female literary journalist in Canada. Most Canadians who know of Staebler probably…