From Desk To Bookstore: Making The Leap To Writing As A Career

"This is one of the most valuable workshops that I have attended. Its value rested in both the designated agenda and in the skilled speakers." Said a Vancouver writer, after attending a Writers' Union of Canada Professional Development workshop.

The Writers' Union of Canada has been leading full-day Professional Development Workshops across the country for the last six years. Titled "From Desk To Bookstore: Making The Leap To Writing As A Career" the sessions are always sold-out given that the content being presented is smart, on-target, and super-fresh from the front lines of the real world. Sometimes the Union is in the unfortunate position of having to limit participants. Happily, we have a solution. BookShorts Literacy Program and TWUC will be recording the complete workshop on video. Working with presenters Wayne Grady, who has written eleven books of nonfiction, published short stories, criticism and feature articles in most of Canada's major magazines, and is an award-winning translator; Genni Gunn, novelist, poet, translator, librettist and musician, who has published eight books of fiction and poetry with various Canadian publishers, and has conducted writing workshops across Canada; and Deborah Windsor, Executive Director of The Writers' Union of Canada, who designed the professional development workshop series as a Writers' Union initiative to assist Canadian writers in the financial management of their careers. as well as Toronto participants, this invaluable braintrust will be made available to book writers, whether unpublished, emerging, or established freed from the constraints of geography The Writers' Union of Canada is our country's national organization representing professional authors of books.Founded in 1973, the Union is dedicated to fostering writing in Canada, and promoting the rights, freedoms, and economic well being of all writers. For more information, please visit www.writersunion.ca.

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Annick Press add mores YA book trailers to their program

“Teen Talk” is the series name of four more book video trailers brought to you by Annick Press in collaboration with the BookShorts team. Powered by creative that reflects the tone and personality of the books, with a marketing message geared to educational book-buyers and the library market, these one-minute video distillations of Annick’s front and back list titles are positioned to help draw extra attention. Shout out to Kerry Biskupski for his excellent creative video editing! Watch the Annick Press website for their premiere, as well as the “Africa Then and Now” series now posted >> www.annickpress.com

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