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Print Futures 2008 Portfolio Show

April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off

Come and support the grads of the Print Futures program at our portfolio show this Thursday from 4:30pm to 7:30pm. You can drop in or stay for the whole event. There’ll be free food, free music, and free conversation with some of the most talented writers this side of the Fraser River. The booze you’ll […]

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Check out my ePortfolio

March 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

I’ve officially uploaded the latest version of my ePortolio – you can check it out here. This website uses some flash elements and some fancy css coding and is basically geared towards technical writing employers as a way to showcase my work. I may expand it in the future to include other samples too. For […]

Tags: employment · site Announcements · working · writing

Pearls book launch

March 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

On Friday I had the pleasure of attending the 27th Pearls book launch, the annual anthology of creative writing works by Douglas College students. My story, The Reluctant Teacher, was published in it this year. I’ve had some poetry published in Pearls before, but that was about 8 years ago, so it’s been a while. […]

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My big audience

November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

I was trying to figure out how many people are reading my writing/editing and the numbers are pretty huge. First of all, I’ve been writing for the print edition of alive at a readership of about 500,000. Then every Tuesday articles I’ve edited for Metro Canada comes out countrywide at a readership of 700,000. And the […]

Tags: editing · working · writing

Four more cents

November 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

The Writer’s Guild of America are striking, but do you know why? Check out this three-minute video clip for an explanation. Or you could just watch more re-runs and hope that your favourite show will come back…eventually.    Electronic rights for authors seems a fair deal, but lets be honest – These guys are making a lot […]

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