Saturday, February 4, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Campus St-Jean, 8406 Marie-Anne-Gaboury Street (91st Street)
Workshop co-presented by Get Publishing Communications Society and the Canadian Authors Association – Alberta Branch
You are a writer and perhaps an editor, an author, and writing instructor as well. You have a diverse income stream, but are you taking care of your writing business? This half-day workshop will provide you with practical tools to help you lay a strong financial foundation for your writing business. Through hands-on activities and guided learning, you will learn what expenses are tax deductible, how to optimize your business deductions, how to determine when to incorporate and when to register for GST, and what software is best to track income and expenses. Take your writing business from the confines of the custodial closet to the executive boardroom, and become the CEO of your Writer Inc. Fortune 500 business!
Presenter bio
Kim Deep, CMA, is a business coach, a financial educator, and the author of the children’s book, Conductor Kash and the Prosperity Express. Kim has been a featured columnist for numerous national publications and on radio and TV. Kim is currently in the process of publishing her 2nd children’s book, The Prosperity Princess. Kim is the founder and president of The Family Wealth Academy and Kidz Make Cents and Business By Numbers Ltd. She is known as the “CFO on the Go” and the Financial Waist Manager who empowers people with account-abilities.
Non-members $40;
Members of Canadian Authors Association or Get Publishing Communications Society $25
To register and for more information go to http://writerinc.eventbrite.ca
Congratulations to our board member, Jennifer Cockrall King for winning the Dave Greber Freelance Writer Book Award for her book Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution!
Her book will be published by Prometheus Books in February 2012.
Check out the full story at LitFest, Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival.
Oct. 9, 2011. 9 am – 12:30 pm
at the Edmonton Journal
More than ever before, news organizations are eager to invite members of the public, sometimes known as “citizen journalists,” to participate in coverage of local events and issues. This presents an opportunity to be published. Journalism, however, involves a particular kind of information-gathering and storytelling. It’s not so much about “writing what you know” as it is “writing what you didn’t know until just now, after asking the questions.”
This practical workshop will explore the skills, style and ethics that a reporter would apply to a story, and it will demonstrate how citizen journalists can use those skills to write stories of interest to a wider audience. We will discuss story idea generation, interviewing techniques and story structure, and students will have an opportunity to practise those skills in class. We will look at what local media outlets are looking for from citizen journalists, including how to pitch, what to pitch, and to whom. We will discuss what’s in it for the writer who participates in such community newsgathering efforts.
The workshop includes a guided tour of the Edmonton Journal’s community media lab and newsroom, followed by an introduction to the virtual community newsroom by Barb Wilkinson, deputy editor, innovation and engagement.
Workshop Leader: Karen Unland is a journalism educator and consultant based in Edmonton. She spent 15 years working for major daily newspapers before heading out on her own. At the Edmonton Journal she was a report, an assistant city editor, an assignment editor, and finally, the editor of edmontonjournal.com. She now teaches reporting and news production at Grant MacEwan University. Through Unland Media Consulting, she helps newsrooms improve their skills and adjust their thinking to adapt to the changes going on in journalism in the 21st century.
For more information and to register, go to http://citizenjournalismworkshop.eventbrite.com/
Check out Karen speaking about Citizen Journalism at Pecha Kucha 11
The Unknown Studio, Edmonton’s podcast talk show, interviewed Catherine Kuehne and Peter Roccia of Get Publishing about our recent conference, At the Edge of Print. Here’s a link to that interview: http://theunknownstudio.ca/2011/05/fancy-yourself-a-writer-check-out-the-edge-of-print/
Writers being writers, there has been a lot of buzz in recent days about the At the Edge of Print conference. Here’s a link to two blogs written by people who attended the conference on May 6 and 7.
First, http://www.danicanuck.com/2011/05/another-weekend-another-writing.html
Then try this one (you have to scroll down a bit to find the Edge entry: http://kimmydonn.blogspot.com/
Oh yeah, we had fun last weekend, and we learned a lot!
At the Edge of Print, the Get Publishing society conference for writers, editors and publishers, drew about 150 people on May 6 and 7, including registrants, presenters and volunteers. It was a great time – stimulating speakers, terrific conversations and networking, good food. We’ll do it again in two years.
Here’s what Jennifer Cockrall-King writes about the Edge of Print conference: “What a great conference. I heard over and over again how much people enjoyed it. I met so many new and energizing people, too. My head is spinning.”
The Get Publishing conference on the weekend of May 6 and 7 is just three months away, and registration for this special event is now open. Get Publishing holds this two-day gathering of writers, editors and publishers only every second year, so you don’t want to miss it. Register now and save $50 on the full weekend cost of $295. Or, register for only part of the event. Go to our At the Edge of Print site at www.getpublishing.ca/edge
Gaspereau Press caused a sensation late last year when a novel it published, The Sentimentalists, won the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. The small Nova Scotia publisher found itself with a huge demand for Johanna Skibdrud’s novel, and a publishing maelstrom ensued. We’re delighted that Andew Steeves of Gaspereau will be a keynote speaker at our conference in May, to talk about this publishing coup. Check out the At the Edge of Print details at www.getpublishing.ca/edge
Minister Faust, aka Malcolm Azania, will be a featured speaker at our At the Edge of Print conference in May. Malcolm is an award-winning novelist and radio broadcaster whose debut novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, was shortlisted for three awards and placed on four top-10 lists for 2004. His second novel, From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, won the Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award and was runner-up for the Philip K. Dick Award of 2007. He’s an amazing guy.
Conference registration opens Jan. 15.
