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Promo Squad How-To: Friends and Family Foment Grassroots Publicity 10 WRITE THE MAGAZINE OF THE WRITERS’ UNION OF VOLUME 44 NUMBER 1 CANADA SPRING 2016 Promo Squad How-to: Friends and Family Foment Grassroots Publicity 10 Seven Ways to Make it Better: Taking a Break from the Story to Spread the Word 24 Diversity in CanLit: Race, Writing and the Politics We Publish 29 “A gift to all of us who care about words.” Jeanette Lynes With essays from some of Canada’s most influential poets,Measures of Astonishment shines a northern light on poetry, showing what it is, what it does, and why it matters. Toronto Launch With Lillian Allen, George Elliott Clarke, Don McKay, A.F. Moritz, and others! Friday, June 17, 5– 6 p.m. Room TBC, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Ontario Saskatoon Launch With Robert Currie, Gregory Scofield Glen Sorestad, and others! Tuesday, June 14, 7–8 p.m. McNally Robinson’s Saskatoon, Travel Alcove 3130- 8th Street East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Admission to both events is free • All are welcome Please visit Measures of Astonishment on Facebook for details on more upcoming launches! uofrpress.ca writers union ad.indd 1 2016-04-19 9:41 AM From the Chair By Heather Menzies Helping to do the work of the Union continues, and so does my learning — including how we collectively engage in the larger conversations and attendant dramas of cultural policy in Canada. I’m also learning how we function as a self-governing mini-democracy ourselves, and how vital it is that members see themselves as participants in this. Redressing the damage done by the inauspicious inclusion nothing can substitute for the open discussion of an AGM plenary, of “education” in the Fair Dealing clause of the Copyright Act is where people articulate and listen to differing points of view, and probably the biggest policy struggle the Union has been engaged vote to endorse, or not, various resolutions for action to be taken. in lately. The struggle continues in slow motion because, having Knowing that the Union will act on these resolutions is critical to gained the ear of the new Liberal government on this, just these discussions’ vigour and integrity. However, while something keeping the issue within key people’s attention span takes time like fifty percent of the Union membership regularly attended and effort. John Degen and I have built on a fruitful meeting AGMs around the time that I joined in the late 1970s, today we’re with senior policy people, and have been joined in efforts by my lucky to get eight percent to our annual meetings. Reasons range colleagues on National Council writing to and, where possible, from the expense and time of attending an AGM to the shifting meeting with local members of Parliament. Essentially, we’re perception of the Union among members as the membership has asking the government to either amend the Copyright Act right grown so dramatically. As a result, I suspect that many experience away, or to impose regulatory control over the interpretation the Union now more as a service organization than as a place of Fair Dealing, so that any institutional scale (as opposed to where writers debate and come together around policies affecting individual-use scale) copying of our work is clearly defined as all writers in this country. contrary to the law. The task force will be presenting their final report to the AGM As I watch, from my privileged position as participant for a year in June, incorporating the feedback they get from members on in this policy issue, I sense the strands of influence at work, and the survey and discussion paper they distributed electronically I marvel that through persistence, hard work informed by solid in early April. The timing is good, as I’m sure we’ll get well over research, and a lot of patience, this organization can help make the 10 percent of the membership to this year’s AGM. Overlapping wheels of policy change move. (Well, so far, all we’ve witnessed is with other writers’ organizations, as we did in Winnipeg last year, the gears shifting from reverse to forward on this policy issue. We makes sense. We get a surge of energy, of shared experience and now need pressure on the accelerator pedal — perhaps coming in knowledge. Moreover, the scope of the Canadian Writers’ Summit part through some vigorous debate and resolution formation at the this year is huge, combining international policy perspectives on AGM in June.) the public use of our work with talks and critical discourse on a How we decide the Union’s policy priorities through the AGM range of topics, plus professional development and schmoozing has been a major discussion topic in the Governance Task Force opportunities with a range of publishers and others in the writing since its formation last fall. In March, National Council devoted biz. The whole package addresses the gestalt of who we are as its entire meeting to what amounts to the task force’s preliminary writers. We aren’t just individuals writing books and blogs and report. The consultant to it, Jenny Ginder, led us through the other products. We aren’t even merely cultural “workers.” We recommendations that have emerged so far, and while we covered are members of a cultural community, even a community of a lot of ground, most of the discussion centered on the evolving communities. And when we come together in plenary discussions, role of regional representatives and the importance of the AGM as we give voice not just to our individual self-interest but to a shared, a policy-debating forum. Many of the ideas and concerns raised by collective interest in culture and its role in keeping the public National Council members apparently echoed those already raised mind free, open and healthily plural. by the task force members themselves, including around AGM I look forward to chairing those sessions. I look forward to plenaries as central to the Union’s governance. On the one hand, seeing you there! Spring 2016 3 national council committee chairs Chair Nominating Heather Menzies Heather Wood First Vice-Chair membership committee George Fetherling Contents spring 2016 Christine Cowley Second Vice-Chair Orysia Dawydiak Ava Homa Bonnie Lendrum Treasurer 3 Chair’s Report Ian LeTourneau George Melnyk Margaret Webb 5 Writing Rights BC/Yukon Representative twuc national office Carol Shaben 6 News Executive Director Alberta/NWT/Nunavut John Degen, ext. 221 Writer’S Blot Representative [email protected] Margaret Macpherson 8 Writer’s Prompt Associate Director Manitoba/Saskatchewan Siobhan O’Connor, ext. 222 9 Industry Q & A Representative [email protected] Lauren Carter Office Administrator Dispatches Ontario Representative Valerie Laws, ext. 224 10 Promo Squads: A How-to Guide Andrew J. Borkowski [email protected] Quebec Representative BY FARZANA DOCTOR Membership Development & Shelagh Plunkett Fund Researcher 12 My Confession: Exploring the Intersection Between Atlantic Representative Nancy MacLeod, ext. 226 Memoir and Story Vicki Grant [email protected] BY ZOË S. ROY Advocates Communications Coordinator Bianca Lakoseljac Gaeby Abrahams, ext. 223 14 In Search of a Writer’s Homeland Renée Sarojini Saklikar [email protected] BY GEZAHEGN MEKONNEN DEMISSIE Anne Sorbie 16 Staying Alive by Discovering Slam Poetry BY SYlviA MCNICOLL Editor Hal Niedzviecki [email protected] 18 Unearthing Jane Austen for the Twenty-First Century Deadline for Summer issue June 27, 2016 Editorial Board Andrew J. Borkowski, John Degen, Nikki Reimer, Leslie BY PAUL BUTLER Shimotakahara, Allan Weiss 20 Historical Fiction, a Place for Truth, and an Editorial Liaisons Corey Redekop Opportunity for Reconciliation Copy Editor Nancy MacLeod BY JENNIFER MARUNO Write Magazine Advertising Gaeby Abrahams [email protected] 22 Remembering Ellen Seligman Design soapboxdesign.com BY ELIZABETH HAY Layout Gaeby Abrahams Cover Illustration Caitlyn Murphy caitlynmurphy.ca features 24 Making it Better Views expressed in Write do not necessarily reflect those ofT he Writers’ Union BY ALISON LANG of Canada. Services advertised are not necessarily endorsed by the Union. All 29 Diversity and Identity: A Panel Discussion on Race submissions are welcome. and Writing We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout Canada. 34 Fiction 35 poetrY We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1737 individual artists and 1095 member awards & news organizations in 223 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.1 million. 38 Announcements 38 Awards 40 New Members Write is produced four times yearly by The Writers’ Union of Canada, 460 Richmond Street West, Suite 600, Toronto, Ontario, M5v 1Y1 T 416.703.8982, F 416.504.9090, [email protected], www.writersunion.ca. © The Writers’ Union of Canada, 2016. The text paper used for this issue contains 100 percent post-consumer fibre, is accredited EcoLogo and Processed Chlorine Free, and is processed in a mill that uses biogas. 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