Join us Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7 pm for the Arrow Lakes Scribbletastics FBCW Writers Spotlight with the Scribbletastics Writing Group! Register here (at bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) for this free online Zoom event presented by the Federation of British Columbia Writers. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Host Corinne Tessier
After decades of writing business reports, business magazine articles and a non-fiction book about workplace practices, Corinne Tessier ventured into creative fiction in 2016. She finds fictional techniques radically different from business writing, but enjoys the new learning curve. One short story has been published, with two more in progress. Her novel, The Deposits, is in its third draft. Corinne is the Area Rep for FBCW, living in Nakusp, BC. and organizes the monthly Scribbletastics writers group and local writing workshops.
Galadriel Watson
Galadriel Watson has broad publishing experience, including 24 non-fiction books for children (the latest is Running Wild: Awesome Animals in Motion, Annick Press, 2020), articles for adults (in outlets like The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and Discover magazine) and comics for adults (in outlets like The Washington Post's The Lily). She has a Master’s degree in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an undergraduate degree in writing from the University of Victoria. Learn more at www.galadrielwatson.com.
Alan Ross
Alan lives near Burton where he and his wife own and operate a Cidery, apple orchard and sheep farm. He escaped, in broad daylight, from his job as a corporate lawyer in Calgary several years ago. Alan likes to write short fiction, often set in small towns in the Kootenays.
Claire Paradis
In a fit of pique, Claire began writing three and a half decades ago, and has only paused briefly to read, sleep and eat since. During her period editing the local newspaper and writing as a freelance journalist, she learned discipline. More recently, she learned to fit words into poetry. And now, at the local library, she is learning cataloging, and patience.
Ellen Carey-Starr
Born in New England, Ms. Starr studied Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and University of Washington, Seattle. She started journaling and writing poetry in the 1960's and moved to Alaska during the "back to the land movement" in the 1980's, retiring from a 23 year career with a Native health consortium in SE Alaska. She now divides her time between the villages of Haines, Alaska and Nakusp, B.C.
Linda Kendall
Linda has been writing since she was nine when she began journaling about the stress and uncertainty of growing up in a small community in the West Kootenay that was being expropriated for the construction of the Hugh Keenleyside hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River. Her poems about the experience have been published in UBC's "BC Studies," a quarterly journal dealing with British Columbian life, past and present.
Barb MacPherson
Barbara MacPherson lives in Nakusp in the West Kootenays and has been a freelance writer for over 30 years, contributing to many types of magazines and journals. In 2017, her book The Land on Which We Live, was on the BC Bestseller List and won an award from the BC Genealogical Society.
This Zoom programming is subsidized by the Federation of BC Writers, a non-profit society. Donations are welcome here! You can join the Federation of British Columbia Writers here!
