Workshops/Teaching
I offer Career Consultations in the Writing and Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University.
I will teach Writing Non-fiction Books: From Inspiration to Publication in the Continuing Education department of Camosun College, Victoria. The course runs from 6:00-9:00 p.m. on February 6, 13, 20, and 27, and on 5 March. Contact Yarrah Anstey.
I will teach Non-fiction Book Writing at the UBC Writing Centre on eight consecutive Thursday nights between 2 February and 22 March. Contact Vera Lowe.
past festivals, workshops, and lectures
University of British Columbia Writing Centre: Non-Fiction Book Writing (2011)
Seniors Program, Simon Fraser Univerity: Pacific Empire: The Fur Trade in British Columbia, 1793-1858 (2011)
Continuing Education, Camosun College: Writing History-based Narratives(2011)
Museum at Campbell River, Rain & Fire Festival of Story (2011)
Archaeology Society of British Columbia (2011)
Surrey International Writers' Conference (2010)
Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival (2010)
Write on Bowen! A Festival for Readers and Writers (2010)
Writing and Publishing Program, Simon Fraser University: Writing History-based Narratives (2006-10)
Making the Wilderness Profound: From Biography to Regional History on Vancouver Island (2010)
Museum at Campbell River: To the High Valleys: Comox Logging in the Vancouver Island Mountains (2009)
Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC (2009)
Students in my workshops bring material as diverse as local history, public history, memoirs, autobiography, historical fiction, fiction with a touch of history, history with a touch of fiction, travel writing, guide books, journalism, documentary film scripts, and text for roadside historical signs and museum exhibits.