Professional Development

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Writing

Nanaimo Spring Writes Festival

2017: Hook and Hold Your Reader – Creative Nonfiction with Angie Abdou

Creative Nonfiction Collective Society Workshops

1. 2017 (UBC)

• Who’s Afraid of the Personal Essay? – Andreas Schroeder

2. 2016 (Banff Centre)

• Writing in a more-than-human world – Trevor Herriot
• Diversifying Your Portfolio: Do More with Less – Lori A. May

3. 2015 (Victoria, BC)

• Courting the ‘C’ in CNF – Betsy Warland
• Writing Past Fear – Donna Besel, Heather Conn, Monique Gray Smith
• Finding the Line – Tell All or Do No Harm? – Judy McFarlane, Susan Olding, Carol Shaben

University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension (2001-2003)

• EXGEN6380: Fishing With the Line – Daphne Marlat
• EXGEN6317: Li(v)es of Girls & Women – the Act and Art of Writing the Self
• EXGEN6125: Nature Writing – Ed Struzik
• EXGEN6384: The Art of Writing Short Fiction – Candas Jane Dorsey 
  
• EXGEN3144: Write that Book and Get it Published
• EXGEN6313: Writing Personal Essays
• 2001: Writer’s Guild of Alberta Banff Writing Retreat (Ken McGoogan, Fred Stenson, and others)
• 2000, 2001, 2002: Women’s Words Summer Writing Week

Editing

Editors’ Association of Canada/Professional Editors’ Association of Vancouver Island

• May 2017: Grammar Usage Woes and Myths by Frances Peck
• May 2016: Plain Language – The Basics by Peter Moskos

University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension (2001-2003)

• EXGEN3133: A Practical Guide to Proofreading
• EXGEN3401: Editing Fiction
• EXGEN3261: Effective Editing – Theory & Practice
• EXGEN3329: Essential Editing
• EXGEN3134: Pen for Hire – The Business of Freelance Editing

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