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.
Here’s the snazzy new logo that has been designed for our At the Edge of Print Conference (May 6 and 7; mark your calendars) by the talented people at Guru Digital Arts College. Thanks, chaps!
Great news for the At the Edge of Print conference: Judy Schultz, one of Edmonton’s favourite writers, will be among our speakers. Judy was the Edmonton Journal food writer for many years, and she is also a teacher and non-food writer. Her non-fiction book Mamie’s Children: Three Generations of Prairie Women, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1998.
The conference will be May 6 and 7, 2011 on the downtown MacEwan campus.
Get Publishing 2011: At the Edge of Print connects writers with editors and publishers to explore the outer limits of the written word.
This innovative, interactive conference invites participants to seek out new opportunities, new media and new genres.
Pitch your ideas to a publisher. Draw inspiration from our keynote speakers. Attend the panels, browse the marketplace, don your thinking caps at the writers’ circus.
Join us May 6 and 7, 2011, at the Robbins Health Centre, Grant MacEwan University — and boldly go where no pen has gone before.
For more information, contact the conference chair, Peter Roccia, at rocciap@macewan.ca.
A team of Get Publishing keeners is hard at work planning our big conference, which happens next May 6 and 7. We’re calling it At the Edge of Print: Go Where No Pen Has Gone Before. Peter Roccia, the conference planning chair, has come up with another tagline for the event: Every blank page is a new universe. Sounds intriguing, eh?
Strategic planning is not everyone’s idea of fun, but members of the Get Publishing Communications Society did have fun in their daylong session on Sept. 25. Creating a mission statement was a prolonged and thoroughly enjoyable exercise in wordsmithing. Our draft statement must now be approved by the Get Publishing board, which will happen in about two weeks. Then we’ll post it. Below, facilitator Rob Hagg admires our work.
The Marty Chan workshop on Sept. 11 was a big hit. Thanks to our partners, the Canadian Authors Association – Alberta Branch, for helping host Marty’s workshop Sell Your Book, Not Your Soul.
Hanging on his every word
