Category: Society News

Saturday, 19 January 2013 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, Edmonton Get Publishing Communications Society (GPCS) is collaborating with the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) and The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) to offer the following online tool workshop. Registration is now open! These days, digital “illiteracy” can be a deal-breaker for publishers—regardless of your manuscript’s quality. Whether you’re writing for magazines or looking ahead to your next (or first!) book project, publishers expect you to know the ins and outs of digital promotion. In this seminar, Omar Mouallem teaches magazine writers and book authors alike how to use social media to promote their stories and attract readers. As well, he explains how to store your work in “the cloud,” organize your queries and research using spreadsheets, track down the best…

May 24-26, 2013 Join the conference that’s bigger on the inside—Words in 3 Dimensions. Choose from a plethora of presenters: Officers of the Order of Canada, publicists, agents, editors, publishers, and writers. It’s bigger than ever before! Three days! Three keynote speakers! Three hosts! The Get Publishing Communication Society, Editors’ Association of Canada-Prairie Provinces Branch, and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta have teamed up to assemble for you a sparkling array of innovative opportunities: Preconference sessions, a lunchtime open mike, the Blue Pencil Café, The Alberta Book Publishers Award Gala…all under one roof! Plus, all the things you’d expect from a gathering of this dimension: diverse conference sessions, lively marketplace tables, stimulating panels, and the ever-popular Pitch Camp and Writers’ Circus. Learn more about these and other inspirational offerings, and transport yourself—and your words—to a new…

Prosciutto-wrapped pears in balsamic reduction… Sound like a poem? It’s only one of an anthology of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, composed by Bistro La Persaud, and awaiting you at the Get Publishing Tenth Anniversary Party. Get Publishing is 10 years old—and growing. So we’re throwing it a birthday party! Join us Saturday, May 5, 2012, at La Cité francophone, 8527 Marie-Anne Gaboury Street, 5:30 – 10:00 p.m., and help us ring in the next decade of writing, editing, and publishing. The very first Get Publishing Conference took place at Grant MacEwan College in 2002, so we’re marking the occasion with an evening of rich melodies and cool jazz, warm tributes to Get Publishing’s creator Susan Lieberman and long-time supporter Dorothy Gray, readings by authors who got published through Get…

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.…

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…

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.”