Writers' Corner
Are you working alone on a story, a poem, a novel or a memoir? Do you need some encouragement, and the fine company of other writers?
Drop by Writers' corner at the Stanley A. Milner Library (Downtown) on the last Sunday of each month. EPL's Writer in Residence hosts a friendly and supportive gathering with a different guest author each month. The guest author will give an author talk that provides writers at all stages useful guidance and will then answer your questions and offer advice. Come and talk about your writing in a friendly and supportive atmosphere and listen to the suggestions of professional writers in our community.
All writers and readers are welcome. No experience is necessay. Drop-ins are welcome.
All sessions begin at 1.30pm. Admission is free. Call 780.496.7032 for details.
Upcoming Writers' Corner
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Guest Authors - Lynn Coady & Jennifer Cockrall-King
Sunday, February 26, 2012 | 1:30pm
Stanley A. Milner Library (Downtown)
Topic: How to pitch ideas and write articles for magazines
Lynn Coady's fiction has been garnering acclaim since her first novel, Strange Heaven, was published and was nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Fiction when she was 28. Strange Heaven was followed up by a best-selling short story collection, Play the Monster Blind (2000) as well as the award-winning novels Saints of Big Harbour (2002) and Mean Boy (2006). Lynn Coady grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and now lives in Edmonton. Her most recent novel, The Antagonist, was nominated for this year's Giller Prize and is a semi-finalist for the 2012 Edmonton Public Library Alberta Readers' Choice Award.
Jennifer Cockrall-King is a Canadian food writer and author based in Edmonton, Alberta, and Naramata, British Columbia. Her work has been widely published in magazines such as Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, Western Living, and enRoute, and she has won several writing awards. In 2008, Western Living magazine named her one of Western Canada's "Top 40 Foodies Under 40". Her first book, Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and The New Food Revolution (February 2012) has already received the 2011 Dave Greber Freelance Book Award. Jennifer blogs at http://foodgirl.ca/.
