Writer • Editor • Educator
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…
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 some inspiring student journalists from across the country, as well as some longtime industry colleagues who I’d previously only known…
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, it’s great stuff with a timeless quality to it; the stories are every bit as engaging and interesting today as…
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 takes place from 11 am to 1 pm at the Carnegie Building at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford campus, in the…
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 think of her as a cookbook writer or philanthropist–and rightly so. That’s how I used to think of her, too….