Category Archives: fairs
Traversing the (Near) North
Last week, as part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading tour – think of a U.S.O. tour, but with children’s authors and only within Ontario – I travelled to Parry Sound and North Bay with a team of great writers (and one excellent OLA staff member, Meredith). The experience was both surreal and [...]
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Tagged bill swan, bobby orr, brit trogen, dionne quintuplets, forest of reading, janet wilson, kari trogen, marsha skrypuch, natalie hyde, north bay, ontario library association, parry sound, ringette, steve pitt, wesley king
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At the OLA Super Conference: January 31 & February 1
This coming week, the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference 2013 hits Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West), and this year, I’ll be there as an author! The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest education event in librarianship. The conference includes a trade show, countless [...]
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Tagged follett, forest of reading, kevin sylvester, ontario library association, silver birch, whitehots
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Sept 16 | Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
On Sunday, September 16, I’ll be one of the authors reading at one of Canada’s finest literary festivals, the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, located just outside of Guelph. From the Eden Mills site:
Over 50 authors will be reading in beautiful sites around the village. Bring a blanket or folding chair, and a sun hat or [...]
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Artistic Crisis!
The other week I attended Fan Expo Canada, and while I sat on a great panel about writing the supernatural for young readers with Kelley Armstrong and Max Turner, then signed at my publisher, ECW’s, booth, it was the first year I wasn’t sitting behind a table (or ‘tabling’) at Fan Expo.
For the past ten [...]
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