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Barbara K. Adamski
Vancouver, British Columbia
A writer, editor, and certified proofreader, Barb has worked on educational manuals, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, and web copy. She writes for several magazines and trade publications and has written and recorded for CBC Radio. A stickler for facts, she is a regular contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Barb has a B.A. in French Literature, a diploma in professional writing and editing, and an M.A. in Integrated Studies (specializing in cultural studies). An avid lacrosse fan, Barb's thesis is on the history of lacrosse, a topic she has written about extensively. She also speaks Japanese.
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Amy Jo Ehman
Saskatoon, SK
After a career in broadcasting at the CBC, Amy Jo turned to freelance writing in 2000. Corporate work pays the bills, but freelance journalism fuels her curious and creative urges. She is a food columnist at the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, which bubbled over into the book, Prairie Feast: A Writer’s Journey Home for Dinner. Loves reporting on courtroom dramas for their humanity (The Queen vs. Robert Latimer; Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto) and new agricultural achievements for their novelty (lemons for the prairies!). Recent assignments: How is technology changing the practice of law? and Why is Saskatchewan booming while its neighbour isn’t?
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Darrell Harvey
Ottawa, ON
Darrell is a writer, editor and broadcaster who produces features and documentaries for English-language media outlets around the world. He has travelled widely, spending much of the past decade reporting from Europe, Africa and Latin America, writing about everything from urban farming and Romanian gold mines to locked-out NHLers and, perhaps his favourite, Hungary's Whiskey Robber, the post-Communist country's own scotch-swilling, bank robbing Robin Hood. Darrell also operates his own audio production company and does communications work for corporate, academic and non-profit clients.
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Paul McLaughlin
Toronto, ON
Paul is a highly experienced writer, communications specialist, interviewing and performance trainer and university teacher. He writes for both the journalism and corporate markets, and has produced virtually every kind of publication (as well as a few videos), including magazine and newspaper features, books, scripts, trade articles (ghosted at times), brochures, ad campaigns and plays.
The author of Asking Questions: The Art of the Media Interview, he’s trained interviewers at the CBC and in private practice, and has lectured extensively on interviewing.
He teaches in the Professional Writing program at York University, and previously at the schools of journalism at Ryerson and Carleton universities.
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Jesse McLean
Toronto, ON
Jesse McLean is an award-winning humorist and culture commentator whose disciplines include technical writing, screenwriting, film and television criticism, humour articles and sketch comedy. These varied talents conspire to deliver incisive, thoughtful and creative copy. He has written process documentation for BMO, dialogue punch-up for Joe Flaherty and Brigitte Nielsen, ruminations on Wilhelm Reich’s “orgone accumulator” for PopMatters, how Rainer Maria Rilke might have negotiated Facebook for Yankee Pot Roast, and the inherent difficulties interviewing zombies for Eyes on Toronto with Stephen Eyes. Impromptu dance numbers lack technical grace but brim with “pizzazz”.
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Paolo Pietropaolo
Vancouver, BC
Paolo is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, composer and documentary producer. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award and the Prix Italia, two of the highest accolades in journalism, along with many other awards. His radio documentaries have been broadcast around the world, and Paolo’s voice has been heard regularly on CBC Radio since 2001. Paolo is a Jack Webster Fellow, a Banff Centre Science Communications Program alumnus, and a member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020. Prior to his radio and writing career, Paolo toured extensively as taiko drummer and percussionist with a taiko ensemble in Toronto.
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Adrien Sala
Victoria, BC
Adrien Sala is a freelance writer/broadcaster with a background in radio, print, and new media.
Currently, Adrien works as producer, story developer and co-director of a television documentary series (15 episodes) that explores the meaning of home to the people who live in BC’s north. He is also the owner of Adrien Sala Writing & Media, a dynamic communications office that includes Shoebox Studio, a sound studio designed specifically for radio voice work and podcasting.
Adrien has long had a fascination with people and places, and he continues to be interested in new methods of telling stories.
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Denis Seguin
Toronto, ON
An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Denis Seguin has been writing about what interests him in such publications as The Walrus and The Globe and Mail in Canada, Slate in the US and The Times and The Guardian in the UK. He wrote and co-produced the feature documentary How to Start Your Own Country, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. As well, he co-wrote the feature documentary 100 Films And A Funeral, the story of the first Hollywood film studio not run from Hollywood. His short film, It’s My Right, won the $10,000 first prize in Canadian Film Centre’s 2010 Reel Challenge.
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Grant B. Stoddard
Vancouver, BC and Whistler, BC
Subcultures, pop culture, sex/relationships, nascent trends and eccentric characters are all grist for British-born Grant Stoddard’s mill. With an eye for the surprising and ridiculous, Stoddard often reports from a participatory perspective; imbuing his stories with an engaging, visceral, dynamic feel and a humanistic focus. Working in newspapers, magazines, blogs, books, film, music, television and theatre has given Stoddard a vast spectrum of experience in working with different clients with wildly varying aesthetic requirements.
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Eric Veillette
Toronto, ON
