The newsletter for members of the Edition Editors’ Association of Canada, branch June 2006 Program Report Magazines and the Web by Grace Cherian; editing by Renée Mina

In This Issue

Magazines and the Web ...... 1

Letter from the Editor ...... 2

EAC Toronto Executive Presenters from left to right: Noel Hulsman, Kathy Bergen, Derek Chezzi (2005–2006) ...... 2 n April 24, 2006, I listened to three online editors—Kathy Bergen EAC Toronto Meeting Schedule ...... 4 of Today’s Parent magazine, Noel Hulsman, a reporter with Small Business Magazine of , and Derek Chezzi, pres- Seminar Registration Tops O ently news editor at Yahoo Canada but formerly of Maclean’s—discuss the 400 ...... 5 topic “Magazines and the Web” at the EAC monthly meeting, held at the How to Get Published ...... 6 Women’s Art Association.

Welcome! New Members ...... 7 Listening to Kathy, Noel, and Derek was a real eye-opener. They taught me that online editing is different from print editing in many, many ways. Here’s Industry Briefs—Book Ninja ..... 8 how. Networking ...... 10 Noel said that his experience was considerably less than that of his

Toronto Executive 2006–2007 ..16 colleagues: “…it’s very much a living example of taking content from a magazine and bringing it to the Web.” Hotline Registration ...... 18 Newspapers are not the best forum for reporting on small business; their Edition Staff June 2006 ...... 18 focus is storytelling. A Web site, on the other hand, aims to be the dominant

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Edition June 2006 1 EAC TORONTO EXECUTIVE 2005–2006 Letter from the Editor Branch Chair Jennie Worden 416 465-3547 [email protected] This issue marks the end of my three-year run with Edition. After a year as layout editor and two years as editor, it’s time to pass the reins to Annie and Vice-Chair Gillian Faulkner Karlene, next year’s co-editors. 416 489-2677 [email protected] As rewarding as the experience was for me, my primary goal was always to Secretary provide members with as many growth opportunities as possible. For the Janice Dyer experienced writers, photographers, and editors who volunteered, I offered 905 823-3724 [email protected] an opportunity to showcase their talents. Treasurer Before joining the EAC in 2003, I had very limited experience with Mary Anne Carswell 416 469-6784 professional editors. But after being at the controls of Edition, I’ve seen [email protected] firsthand what a talented bunch of people work in this industry, and what Membership Chair great things they can accomplish when they pool their efforts. Karen E. Black 416 686-8126 To all the people who have given their time, energy, and talent to work on [email protected] Edition, I thank you for helping to make this a strong and successful branch. Program Chair You have much to be proud of. I’ve enjoyed working with all of you very Craig Saunders 416 699-4874 much. [email protected] - Ken Weinberg Professional Development Co-Chairs Martin Townsend 416 967-5994 [email protected] Alan Yoshioka 416 531-1857 [email protected] Public Relations Chair Monica Plant 416 533-4879 [email protected] Newsletter Chair Ken Weinberg 416 907-6677 [email protected] Past Co-Chairs  Elizabeth d’Anjou 416 465-8455 [email protected] Andy Carroll 416 929-4402 [email protected]

27 Carlton Street, Suite 507 Toronto ON M5B 1L2 Branch Administrator: Brian Cardie Tel. 416 975-5528 Fax 416 975-5596 E-mail [email protected] Web site http://www.editors.ca Hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Thursday

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hub for small businesses in Canada while providing reader to visit the site frequently to enable Maclean’s content generated from magazines, columns, and to post business promotions. Daily as well as weekly photo essays. There is a strong threefold service orien- updates were necessary, but creating them was pro- tation: to provide small businesses with tools, content, moting only 35 per cent of the content. Derek realized and a community environment. Small businesses can that a more focused approach was necessary. For go to a Web site and play games, determine their cash instance, in January 2006, the entire home page con- flow, and evaluate their businesses. centrated on the Federal elections. He worked with theglobeandmail.com provides a community for 680 News to make Maclean’s the hub for the elections businesses through advertising, marketing, live discus- within Rogers. An online survey that would be mean- sions, and interaction. People can ask questions and ingful to readers was included. Guerrilla marketing receive answers about any number of business issues. tactics combined with a little media coverage by the The Web can thus provide Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, more in-depth coverage of a Small businesses can go to a and the Toronto Sun doubled topic than a magazine. With traffic to the Web site. Because budget requirements being Web site and play games … the content was re-packaged with minimal, it’s also possible to and evaluate their businesses. a more meaningful focus, it was update and edit the material The Web can thus provide successful in reaching a wide instantly. more in-depth coverage of audience. Five years ago, Kathy The Web site also enabled Bergen and her team were a topic than a magazine. Maclean’s to use multimedia, charged with editing the conduct reader polls, and interact Today’s Parent Web site. They learned a lot through with its readers in a way it could not do in print. Even trial and error. The primary task of the Web editor is to though the magazine conducted a weekly recap, no serve the audience, which is comprised of people who one was reading it—it was ten days old. surf, do Google searches, research, etc. The Web allows content to remain alive a little longer The integration of the Web and print formats has than in magazines. Sometimes material becomes  extended Today’s Parent magazine from a monthly popular at a later time. For example, during the magazine to a digital medium. Its Web site has become 2005 Toronto Film Festival, photographers took pic- the gateway to what the magazine can offer. Today it tures of galleries, snapped photos of celebrities, and boasts about 150 different newsletters, and 40,000 Web even made videos of their subjects. It was the “coolest site members who discuss a spectrum of issues both thing” Derek had ever seen. Even though the Film Fes- related and not related to parenting. tival took place in September, Web traffic was higher The magazine itself is a promotional tool for the Web in October. It is expected that this year’s traffic will be site. For instance, it directs readers to the Web site for even higher. more information on breastfeeding. You can do different things — and do things differ- Derek Chezzi spoke about his five years of online ently — online than you can in print. For instance, the editing at Maclean’s. “Magazines must have a Web topic of “Smoking Pot with your Kids” was very suc- presence to engage their audience,” he said. Maclean’s cessful online. Traffic increased by a multiple of ten. had content, but the question was, where would it Listening to Kathy, Noel, and Derek about magazines work best? and the Web was a terrific learning experience. E The Maclean’s Web site was launched in 1995. The challenge? To create a compelling presence online. Grace Cherian is the branch’s Program Co-chair elect. Her e-mail address is [email protected]. The Web site’s team needed to attract the more casual discuss online

Edition June 2006 3 EAC TORONTO MEETING SCHEDULE

Executive Meeting Monday, June 12 6:30 p.m. EAC Office, 27 Carlton Street, Suite 502 All members welcome RSVP: Janice Dyer, PARTY! 905 823–3724 [email protected]

Monday, June 26 7:30–11:00 p.m. Women’s Art Association of Canada 23 Prince Arthur Avenue Live music, refreshments, EAC Party hors d’oeuvres Please note: No Q&A session is scheduled.

4 Edition June 2006 Seminar Registration Tops 400

This season’s seminars brought in a record-breaking 413 registrations. Seminars earn the bulk of the Toronto branch’s income and introduce many members of the broader community to EAC for the first time, so this is good news indeed. Eight-Step Editing with Jim Taylor and Substantive Editing with Rosemary Shipton continued their well-deserved popularity, while Frances Peck’s grammar seminar filled up so rapidly, we offered it a second time. We continue too to offer smaller-drawing seminars such as Editing Books for Children and Networking with Integrity to serve more specialized needs. Many thanks to our instructors, volunteers, branch staff, and fellow exec members, all of whom worked diligently and cheerfully to keep the seminars running smoothly. As we PD Co-Chairs move on to other pursuits, passing the baton to John Green (and possibly a second person still to be confirmed), we are proud to have led such a terrific team for the past two years. Alan Yoshioka and Martin Townsend, Professional Development Co-Chairs, EAC Toronto

Edition June 2006 5 How to Get Published by Lily Quan

riting may be a craft, but getting published According to Cooke, the best way to approach a liter- is a business. That is the conclusion I have ary agent is with what he terms a “smart” query letter. W reached after researching the topic of how Smart query letters are not gimmicky, fluorescent, or to get a book published. Unless authors choose the perfumed (all of which he has received). In a smart self-publishing route, they must be prepared to market query letter, writers should demonstrate that they and sell their manuscripts, because being a great writ- have educated themselves about the publishing busi- er is one thing, but being a published one is another. ness. Writers should state their previous publications Let’s assume you have a full-length manuscript and workshops or courses they have taken. They can ready. The first step is to find out who to approach also cite industry professionals they have studied with. and how to approach them. Increasingly in Canada, These are a writer’s credentials. “Most writers push the the people to approach are literary agents rather than novel, then bury the qualifications,” Cooke says. publishers. “Publishers depend on agents to vet mate- Cooke uses the analogy of dentistry. When look- rial by unknown writers,” according to Dean Cooke, ing for a dentist, you want someone who is a trained a Toronto literary agent. The professional. You wouldn’t agents market the manuscripts choose someone who says, to editors they think would be “I’ve always wanted to be interested. “If [the manuscript] a dentist.” And yet phrases is coming from an agent, it’s such as “I was born to be a assumed to be worth taking writer” are common in the a look at,” says Cooke, whose letters he sees. authors include Richard Wright At Cooke’s agency, all and Guy Vanderhaeghe. query letters are read, even Publishing houses have cut  though the vast majority back on their editorial staff of unsolicited manuscripts to the extent that there is no are probably not publish- longer time to read and respond to the multitude of able. But still, there is that chance of finding a gem, unsolicited submissions that arrive. Once, interns and so his agency continues to accept unsolicited or editorial assistants were usually assigned to read submissions. unsolicited letters and manuscripts, or “the slush pile.” However, if you would like to submit to a publisher Exceptional manuscripts were noted and passed on. directly, it still is possible to do so, and your manu- But according to Cooke, this process, which includes script does not have to gather dust in the slush pile. An logging and recording submissions, has become too effective approach is to research the different pub- time-consuming and inefficient for many publishers. lishers and editors, and to target the ones who would Authors generally sell their work by first sending out be open to your work. Maria Coletta McLean did just query letters. Query letters can be thought of as brief that. McLean is the author of two books and currently commercials for the work and for the authors them- works at Penguin Canada. She chose to pitch her first selves. A well-written query letter attracts the attention book to editor Jackie Kaiser after reading the novel of an editor or agent, who then requests a copy of the Tamarind Mem. In the acknowledgements, the author manuscript. of Tamarind Mem thanked Kaiser for taking a chance on a new writer. McLean saw an opening and pitched

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her manuscript in a letter to Kaiser, noting Kaiser’s openness to unknown authors. Kaiser responded and read her manuscript, providing feedback and encouragement. McLean’s book, My Father Came from Italy, was even- tually published by Raincoast Books. McLean’s advice to new writers is to find out who publishes books that are similar to theirs. Then scan the acknowledgements of the books for names of editors who might be interested in their work. These are the editors to submit to. By doing your homework about the business, you have demonstrated that you are a professional who is knowledgeable about the industry — someone publishers will want to work with. That is the type of author pub- lishers are looking for. For more information about getting published, the following workshops are available: What It Takes To Get Published presented by Daphne Hart and Althea Prince. June 17 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at The Toronto Writers’ Centre, 101 Yorkville Avenue, Suite 200. 416 975-5172 The Insider’s Guide to Getting Published presented by Cynthia Good. July 24 and July 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Humber College, Lakeshore Campus. 416 675-6622 ext. 6622. E

Lily Quan can be reached at [email protected]  WELCOME! NEW MEMBERS

As of May 5, 2006, the Toronto branch had 690 members (125 voting, 564 associate). Eighteen people joined in April, 22 allowed their membership to lapse, and 7 members identified themselves as francophone.

NEW MEMBERS Emily Ohanjanians Kimberly Harkness Marg Madari Nancy Kovacs Sheila Mahoney Betsy Odegaard Andrea Pincombe Robert Butler Steve So Jane McCaig Anita Sylvester Terri Blicharz Noreen Shanahan Nazila Khalkhali

Edition June 2006 7 Industry Briefs —Book Ninja by Sharon Crawford

ook: a long written or printed literary com- 2003, the same year he and Peter Darbyshire launched position; something giving knowledge and bookninja.com. B understanding. Murray is also very opinionated about subjects Ninja: someone skilled in Japanese martial arts who close to his heart. His May 16, 2006, bookninja blog moves in a stealthy way and is often employed in assas- intersperses his comments sinations. with a link to a Canadian Press Bookninja.com is “a literary Web site with a success- wire service story bearing the ful blog element,” says its originator, George Murray. unwieldy heading “Reading’s a  Like its combined namesakes, bookninja.com makes hot topic among young read- stealthy moves, although it’s through the cyberspace ers who have tons of choice in book world and any so-called assassinations are of the Canada.” Murray’s blog, titled Canada’s reading chil- literary variety. dren have it made, says, in part, “James Frey, Viswanathan, Dan Brown, Jayson Blair, “Particularly if they can’t read. Wait—is ‘options’ too Greg Gatenby leaving Harbourfront with all the signed big a word? What about ‘Canadian’? books, Atwood’s LongPen. Basically any major news “‘Then there are the so-called teen high-low books story that passes gets covered,” says Murray. “We cover for those with a lower vocabulary level. They are care- the news with a wry, cynical tone that borders (and fully plotted, they’ve got good characters but they are often steps over that border) on facetious. It’s just part written at a vocabulary level that is better designed of the act and people find it funny. Generally we try to for the reluctant reader,’ Halliday (a librarian at the write like conversation at a party: sometimes sniping Canadian Children’s Book Centre, quoted in the CP and catty, sometimes vehemently earnest. Depends story) said. on the blogger and the story.” “Um, isn’t ‘vocabulary’ the kind of word you’re trying Murray is no stranger to the skewered and funny. to avoid here? Maybe you should say, ‘a lower gooder After all, he’s a contributing editor to Maisonneuve, word level.’ You don’t want to make the kiddies feel the Montreal-based arts periodical that has won stupid.” four National Magazine Awards. But his writing also Front-page news logs like this are read by 2,500 goes deeper and wider. He’s people daily, says Murray. Does this make Book Ninja an award-winning poet who’s a cyberspace bookseller? Hmm. Anyhow, “the news published three books, includ- log on the front page, done in blog style and with blog- ing The Hunter (McClelland & ging software, is the most popular section because  Stewart, 2003) and The Cottage it’s updated daily, quite often many times daily,” says Builder’s Letter (M&S, 2001). He Murray. “The essays, reviews, articles, comics, inter- is a Globe and Mail book reviewer and his fiction and views, etc. are also quite popular, but tend to remain poetry have appeared in Descent, Prism, Fiddlehead, static. Once people have read it, there’s no reason to The Capilano Review, and Painted Bride. He’s taught come back to it. But they’re archived there perma- at Humber College and is on the board for One Little nently.” Goat Theatre Company (NYC/Toronto). He’s also had Murray is also clear that blogs have a place in the his first children’s play, The Swan Chronicles, pro- publishing world. duced in Manhattan by Locomotion Dance Theatre in “What blogs do that newspapers don’t is target a

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niche market very directly. People don’t need to come in a paper can’t do the same thing, in part because the back to read the blog. They haven’t bought a sub- reader doesn’t really ever get to know the reviewer. scription and aren’t obligated in any way. But they do People get to know bloggers’ tastes and eccentrici- because they like the commentary, find the links use- ties and can make decisions based on that. Much like ful, etc. Most of our readers are very loyal and probably you’re more likely to accept a book recommendation read a small constellation of blogs each day. They like from one friend over another because you’re familiar the sense of community and camaraderie. This means with their tastes. I’m sure some people won’t read a that when we speak through the blog, by highlighting book because some blogger they hate likes it. But the certain products or trends or news or whatever, we inverse is probably true more often than not.” E are speaking directly to a range of people who want to be there and will be there again tomorrow. Books like Sharon Crawford (samcraw.com) is a member of EAC’s Sam Lipsyte’s HomeLand were essentially created, in Toronto Branch. She runs The East End Writers’ Group and a marketing sense, by blog buzz. The bloggers con- is currently writing a memoir about her mother’s family. fabbed with each other on it and the readers dug the commentary and went and bought the book. A review

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Compiled by Anne Koenig All events are in Toronto unless otherwise noted.

EDITORS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA GST for additional registrants; $85 + GST for first reg- www.editors.ca istrants of publishing houses with total net book sales of 2006 National Conference of the Editors’ Association more than $500,000, $60 for additional registrants; ban- of Canada: quet June 7 is $125 for members, $150 for non-members; Cultivating Diversity $189 + taxes per night for hotel room at The Grand www.editors.ca/conference2006/ Contact: Megan Burns at 416 487-6116, ext. 231 or When: Friday, June 9 to Sunday, June 11 [email protected]; register online Where: Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver Cost: $300 for EAC members ; $450 for non-members ASSOCIATION OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS OF Contact: [email protected] for more information; (ATIO) register online www.atio.on.ca Trados Training When: Saturday, June 10, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (lunch included) CANADIAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION www.cbabook.org Where: Université du Québec en Outaouais, 283 BookExpo Canada [The industry event for booksell- Alexandre-Taché Boulevard, Gatineau, Québec ers and publishers] Cost: $95 for members, $115 for non-members www.bookexpo.ca Contact: 800 234-5030 or [email protected]. Please down- When: Friday, June 9 to Monday, June 12 load and mail form by June 6 Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Build- ing, 255 Front Street West Punctuation and Mechanics Workshop Cost: $55 When: Saturday, June 17, 9 a.m.– 4 p.m. Contact: 416 491–7565 or 1 888 322–7333 (lunch included) Where: , Woodsworth College, 119 St. George Street, Room 121 Cost: $70 for members, $90 for non-members ART BAR POETRY SERIES Contact: 800 234-5030 or [email protected]. Please www.artbar.org download and mail form by June 13 Poetry Readings When: June 6, 13, 20, and 27, 8 p.m. Where: The Victory Café, 581 Markham Street (one block west of Bathurst Street, one block south of THE BOOK LOUNGE Bloor Street) www.rabble.ca/lounge Cost: Free; however, they pass a hat for voluntary LiT LiVe: Author Michael Knox will read from his work donations Play Out the Match When: Sunday, June 4, 7:30 p.m. Where: Acclamation Bar & Grill, 191 James Street North, Hamilton ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN PUBLISHERS (ACP) Cost: Free www.publishers.ca/ Contact: Nadine James at ECW Press, 416 694–3348 or The 2006 ACP Annual General Meeting [email protected] When: Tuesday, June 6 to Thursday, June 8 Where: The Grand Hotel & Suites, 225 Jarvis Street Cost: $55 + GST for first registrants of publishing houses with total net book sales of less than $500,000, $40 +

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All events are in Toronto unless otherwise noted. CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION —TORONTO BRANCH When: Friday, June 9 to Sunday, June 11 www.canauthorstoronto.org Where: Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre, 525 Bay Street Annual General Meeting, Elections, and Member Cost: $175 for all three days, $179 per night for hotel Readings room at the Toronto Marriott When: Thursday, June 15, 7–9 p.m. Contact: [email protected] or view Web site for Where: Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Boul- enquiries; register online evard (one block north of Eglinton Avenue, west of Yonge Street), Room 200 Cost: Free for members, $5 for guests CANADIAN FEDERATION OF POETS (CFP) Contact: Ben Antao, president, at ben.antao@rogers www.federationofpoets.com .com or phone 416 250–8885 if you wish to read at this Cryptic Chatter at the Renaissance Café meeting When: Friday, June 2, 7:30–10:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Café, 1938 Danforth Avenue, one block west of Woodbine Avenue CANADIAN BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK ARTISTS GUILD (CBBAG) Cost: $3 www.cbbag.ca Contact: Duncan Armstrong at his Web site Wunderkabinets: Architectural Book Environments www.duncanarmstrong.coffeehouse.ca When: Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 5, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. both days Workshop and Critiquing Group — Oakville Chapter Where: CBBAG Bindery, 60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 112 When: Tuesday, June 6, 7–9 p.m. (near King and Dufferin Streets) Where: Timothy’s World Coffee, 321 Lakeshore Road Cost: $250 for members, $310 for non-members, which East, Oakville (one block east of Trafalgar Road) includes a one-year membership to CBBAG, payable for Cost: Free for CFP members OR at the first workshop only Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] or phone 416 581–1071. Register online, or download application form and send to Coffeehouse Cabaret with crime fiction writer and address on Web site poet Rosemary Aubert When: Tuesday, June 6, 9–11 p.m. Printing Intensive: An introduction to hand composition, Where: Renaissance Café, 1938 Danforth Avenue, one letterpress printing, and design block west of Woodbine Avenue When: Monday, July 10 to Saturday, July 15, 10 a.m.–5 Cost: Free p.m. all days Contact: Duncan Armstrong at his Web site Where: Barbarian Press, 12375 Ainsworth Road, R.R. 8, www.duncanarmstrong.coffeehouse.ca Mission, British Columbia Cost: $540 for members, $600 for non-members, which Oakville Open Mic Event includes a one-year membership to CBBAG. There is also When: Thursday, June 15 a $30 materials fee. Where: Timothy’s World Coffee, 321 Lakeshore Road Contact: [email protected] or phone 416 581-1071. East, Oakville Register online, or download application form and send to Cost: Free address on Web site Contact: [email protected] or visit www.federationofpoets.com/oakville.htm

The Oakville Arts Council’s Poetry Café When: Sunday, June 18, 2–4 p.m. CANADIAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (CBA) Where: The auditorium of the Central Library, 120 Navy cbabook.org/ Street, Oakville Bloody Words VII Cost: $8 www.bloodywords.com Contact: Elka Ruth Enola at [email protected] or phone 905 257-7075 to reserve a seat; everyone welcome

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Milton Open Mic Event COACH HOUSE BOOKS When: Friday, June 30, 7–9 p.m. www.chbooks.com (arrive early if you wish to read) Author Reading: A. Rawlings reads from Wide Slumber Where: Milton Café, 88 Ontario Street North, Milton for Lepidopterists Cost: Free for CFP members When: Thursday, June 29, 8 p.m. Contact: [email protected] Where: It’s Not a Deli, 986 Queen Street West Cost: Free; however, they pass a hat for voluntary donations CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (CLA) Contact: See the above Web site www.cla.ca CLA 2006 Annual Conference — Libraries Build Communities THE CENTRE FOR REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE STUDIES When: Wednesday, June 14 to Saturday, June 17 (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) (CRRS) Where: Ottawa Congress Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive, www.crrs.ca Ottawa Readings: An afternoon of reading of Medieval and Cost: $519 full conference rate for members registering Renaissance texts authentically pronounced by May 15, $574 for members registering on-site; $719 When: Monday, June 5, 4 p.m. full conference rate for non-members registering by May Where: Burwash Hall, Senior Common Room, 15, $774 for non-members registering on-site; for daily 89 Charles Street West and student rates, please view Web site Cost: Free Contact: See the Web site or e-mail [email protected] Contact: See the above Web site

CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AND PERFORMERS (CANSCAIP) www.crimewriterscanada.com www.canscaip.org 2006 Arthur Ellis Awards Dinner Monthly Meeting When: Thursday, June 8; reception at 6:30 p.m., dinner When: Wednesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m. at 7:30 p.m. Where: St. Bonaventure’s Parish Centre, 1300 Leslie Where: Mysteriously Yours … Dinner Theatre, 2026 Yonge Street, next to the Toronto Botanical Garden at the corner Street, between Eglinton and Davisville Avenues of Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue East Cost: $75 per ticket. Please send cheque to Crime Writ- Cost: Free ers of Canada; address is on Web site listed above Contact: 416 515–1559 or offi[email protected] Contact: Cheryl Freedman at [email protected] for further information

CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS [CSME] www.canadianeditors.ca EAST END WRITERS’ GROUP Magazines University (Mags U) www.samcraw.com/Articles/EastEndWriters.html Canadian Annual Magazine Conference and Monthly Writing Critiques/Guest Speakers Trade Show When: Wednesday, June 28, 7–10 p.m. www.magsu.com Where: 1 Gardens Crescent, Toronto When: Tuesday, June 6 to Friday, June 9 Cost: Free Where: The Old Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill Road Contact: Sharon Crawford at [email protected], Cost: $120 + GST per seminar for members; $195 + and/or see Web site GST per seminar for non-members; two awards nights (with dinner included) and daily luncheons are separate costs Contact: inter-REG at 1 888 335-5734; register online

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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATORS Course: Rewarding Performance with Non-monetary —TORONTO CHAPTER (IABC) Rewards www.toronto.iabc.com When: Thursday, June 29, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Evening Seminar: Measuring the Value of Where: Professional Learning Centre, University of Communications Toronto, 140 St. George Street When: Thursday, June 15, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Cost: $200 Where: The Ontario Club, Engineers Room, Contact: www.plc.fis.utoronto.ca for further information 30 Wellington Street West and to register online Cost: $25 for members registering by June 6, $35 regu- lar member fee, $65 for non-members Contact: Register online PROFESSIONAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — TORONTO CHAPTER www.pwactoronto.org INTERNATIONAL READINGS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Media Interview Training Workshop: How to Prepare www.readings.org to be Interviewed by Journalists Author Readings: Krista Bridge, Linda Little, and When: Thursday, June 22, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Nega Mezlekia read from their new books Where: Copernicus Lodge, first floor boardroom, When: Wednesday, June 7, 7:30 p.m. 66 Roncesvalles Avenue Where: Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, Cost: $175 ($145 for two or more participants from the 235 Queens Quay West same organization) Cost: $8 Contact: www.paullima.com/mediatraining; limited to 15 Contact: 416 973–4000 for tickets participants; register online

Author Readings: James P. Othmer, Catherine Hanra- han, and Richard Teleky read from their new books SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (STC) When: Wednesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m. www.stctoronto.org Where: Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Monthly Meetings Quay West When: June 12, 7 p.m. Cost: $8 Where: Gold Room, North York Memorial Community Contact: 416 973–4000 for tickets Hall, Toronto Public Library, 5110 Yonge Street Cost: Free for members, $5 for non-members (first time free) ONTARIO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (OLA) Contact: Rob Hanna at [email protected] or www.accessola.com 416 221–4113 Course: Applied Strategic and Business Planning When: Monday, June 26 to Tuesday, June 27, 9 a.m.– 4 p.m. both days TO LIVE WITH CULTURE 05/06 Where: Professional Learning Centre, University of www.livewithculture.ca Toronto, 140 St. George Street Book Launch: The Royal Ontario Museum: A Prehistory, Cost: $425 1830–1914 Contact: www.plc.fis.utoronto.ca for further information www.canadauniversitypress.com and to register online When: Until Sunday, June 4, 6:30–9:30 p.m. Where: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 43 Course: Web Site Evaluation for User-Centred Design Queen’s Park Crescent East, two doors south of When: Tuesday, June 27, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. St. Joseph Street Where: Professional Learning Centre, University of Cost: Free Toronto, 140 St. George Street Contact: Chief Adetola Adeniyi at 416 725–1716 or Cost: $200 [email protected] Contact: www.plc.fis.utoronto.ca for further information and to register online

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Book Launch: Join writers Alice Munro, Joseph Boyden, The Art of the Graphic Novel: Hands-on Workshop with Anne Michaels, and others at PEN Canada’s launch of its Writer-in-Residence Chester Brown (Please bring paper, anthology Writing Life pencil, eraser, and a marker or pen.) www.pencanada.ca When: Saturday, June 17, 1–4 p.m When: Tuesday, June 20, 7:30 p.m. Where: North York Central Library, Meeting Room 1, Where: Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart 5120 Yonge Street House Circle Cost: Free; please register. Cost: $15 Contact: 416 395-5639 for more information and to reg- Contact: Caitlin Smith at PEN Canada, 416 978-8849 ister. Registration is limited to 30 participants or [email protected] for more information. Please buy tickets at www.uofttix.ca Book Club: Join a librarian and others; share your views on A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively When: Tuesday, June 20, 7–8:30 p.m. Where: North York Central Library, 2nd Floor, Room 2, TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY 5120 Yonge Street www.torontopubliclibrary.ca Cost: Free; please register. Look Who’s Reading Canadian Mysteries! Five Contact: 416 395–5672 to register prominent Canadians read from some of their favourite Canadian mysteries When: Tuesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. Where: Toronto Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton TORONTO WRITERS’ CENTRE Auditorium, 789 Yonge Street (one block north of Bloor www.writerscentre.ca Street) Author Readings: Saghi Ghahraman, Nooshin Salari, Cost: Free and Fereshteh Molavi read from their works and speak Contact: See above Web site about living in exile through the support of PEN Canada When: Tuesday, June 6, 7 p.m. Uncovering the Mystery: An Evening with Canada’s Where: Toronto Writers’ Centre, 101 Yorkville Avenue, Mystery Writing Greats Suite 200 When: Wednesday, June 7, 7 p.m. Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members Where: Toronto Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton Contact: 416 975-5172 for tickets Auditorium, 789 Yonge Street (one block north of Bloor Street) Workshop: What It Takes to Get Published Cost: Free When: Saturday, June 17, 10 a.m.–12 noon Contact: See above Web site Where: Toronto Writers’ Centre, 101 Yorkville Avenue, Suite 200 For Seniors Only: Meet Toronto Island Author Sally Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members Gibson, author of More Than an Island: A History of the Contact: 416 975–5172 for tickets Toronto Island When: Friday, June 2, 2–4 p.m. Where: Toronto Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton The Craft of Travel Writing Auditorium, 789 Yonge Street When: Tuesday, June 20, 7 p.m. Cost: Free Where: Toronto Writers’ Centre, 101 Yorkville Avenue, Contact: Answerline at 416 393-7131 with any questions Suite 200 Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members Author Reading: Ian Brown reads from his collection, Contact: 416 975–5172 for tickets What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men When: Wednesday, June 7, 7 p.m. nd Where: North York Central Library, 2 Floor, Room 2, TORONTO ROMANCE WRITERS 5120 Yonge Street (on the west side of Yonge Street, just www.torontoromancewriters.com north of Sheppard Avenue) Speaker: Lani Diane Rich speaks on “How to Be Profes- Cost: Free sional When You Work in Your Pajamas” Contact: See above Web site continued on page 15

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When: Saturday, June 10, 1–4 p.m. THE WRITERS & EDITORS NETWORK (WEN) Where: North York Central Library, Room 2/3, 5120 www.wenetwork.org Yonge Street (on the west side of Yonge Street, just north Breakfast Meeting: The Toronto Star columnist Linwood of Sheppard Avenue) Barclay speaks about his experiences as a writer Cost: Free When: Saturday, June 17, 9–11:30 a.m. Contact: [email protected] for further Where: Canadiana Restaurant, Six Points Plaza, 5230 information Dundas Street West, Mississauga Cost: $13 for WEN members, $16 for non-members Contact: Register online TORONTO WOMEN’S BOOKSTORE (TWB) www.womensbookstore.com Reading: A participatory event that includes a reading THE WRITERS’ CIRCLE OF DURHAM REGION (WCDR) from Dr. Bonnie Burstow’s book, The House on Lippincott, www.wcdr.org discussing childhood anti-Semitic experiences, and how to Breakfast Meeting: Career-Minded — Terry Brodie build peace in the Middle East When: Saturday, June 10, 8:30–11 a.m. When: Thursday, June 1, 7:30 p.m. Where: Sports Garden Café, Iroquois Park Sports Cen- Where: The Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke Avenue tre, at Victoria and Henry Streets, Whitby (five blocks north of Lawrence Avenue West, just east of Cost: $13 for members, $16 for guests Bathurst Street) Contact: Gladys Farquharson at [email protected], or Cost: Free 905 686-0211 to pre-register by noon of the preceding Contact: Don Weitz at [email protected] or Wednesday 416 545–0797 Workshop: Self-Publishing Book Launch and Performance for Leslie Feinberg’s When: Saturday, June 3, 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. novel, Drag King Dreams Where: Ajax Main Public Library, 55 Harwood Avenue When: Sunday, June 18, 5 p.m. South, Ajax Where: Medical Sciences Building auditorium, University Cost: In advance, $30 for WCDR members, $35 for non- of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle members; send cheque to address listed on Web site. If Cost: $5–$15 sliding scale, tickets available at Toronto paying on-site, $35 for WCDR members, $40 for non- Women’s Bookstore members. Contact: Janet Romero at 416 922-8744 or Contact: [email protected] or Web site, www.ianoneill.ca [email protected]. Buy tickets online E

Edition June 2006 15 Jennie Worden past chair

Karen Black membership chair

TORONTO EXECUTIVE 2006–2007

Alan Yoshioka branch co-chair

Mary Anne Carswell treasurer

Ann Firth secretary Noreen Shanahan public relations chair

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Karlene Ruddock newsletter co-chair

TORONTO EXECUTIVE 2006–2007

Ken Weinberg branch co-chair John Green professional development chair

JohnGillian Green Faulkner Sandy Leppan & Grace Cherian vice-chair program co-chairs

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