Media Release
Date: September 14, 2006
HUMBER SCHOOL FOR WRITERS ANNOUNCES WRITER'S CIRCLE LINE UP
TORONTO – The Humber School for Writers (HSW), School of Creative & Performing Arts, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, is pleased to announce its line-up for the 2006/2007 Writers’ Circle sessions.
Saturday, October 14 (10 a.m. – 12 noon)
Kim Moritsugu (The Restoration of Emily, The Glenwood Treasure)
Barry Jowett, editorial director, The Dundurn Group
Saturday, November 11 (10 a.m. – 12 noon)
Russell Smith (Muriella Pent, Young Men)
Sarah Heller, literary agent, The Helen Heller Agency
Saturday, December 9 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
Jointly presented by Ars Medica and featuring Dr. Vincent Lam, Sylvia Warsh, Anne Marie-Todkill, and Linda Clarke
Saturday, January 20 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
Nalo Hopkinson (The Salt Roads, Brown Girl in the Ring)
John Pearce, literary agent, Westwood Creative Artists
Saturday, February 24 (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
Special session for lawyers featuring Andrew Pyper (The Wildfire Season, The Trade Mission), Diane Baker Mason (Last Summer at Barebones, Men with Brooms) and Jack David, publisher, ECW Press
Saturday, March 31 (10 a.m. – 12 noon)
Michael Helm (In the Place of Last Things, The Projectionist)
Janie Yoon, editor, Key Porter Books
Sessions, held at Humber’s Lakeshore Campus, are hosted by Kim Moritsugu, author and HSW faculty member.
The HSW Writers’ Circle was created three years ago to give budding scribes an opportunity to listen to a published author talk about the craft of writing, to network with other writers, and to have the first page of a manuscript assessed by an agent/publisher.
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Contact:
Hilary Higgins
416-675-6622 ext. 3449
hilary.higgins@humber.ca
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