The big game is only a few days away, and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) decided to get football fans across the province geared up with five chili recipes, each with its own line-up of frosty ales and lagers, in a pregame 16-page insert received by thousands on Thursday, February 2. When it came to writing copy that combined football lingo and manly delicacies, Andrew Clark was the perfect designated receiver. Just one problem: he’s a San Francisco 49ers fan.
POSTED IN: News DATE: February 2nd, 2012
In the March 2012 issue of Canadian Family magazine, Ann Douglas, bestselling author of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, was named a contributing editor at Canadian Family magazine by Editor-In-Chief Jennifer Reynolds. Her tenure in this new position with Canadian Family kicks off with a feature on the current state of Canada’s child-care system.
POSTED IN: News DATE: January 28th, 2012
When Patricia Pearson wrote the hilarious piece, “History: The Customer Reviews,” it was a natural for The New Yorker’s famous Shouts & Murmurs section. And when the Canadian Writers Group sent it to the editor who oversees Shouts & Murmurs, we immediately heard back. “This is very funny,” was the reply, followed shortly thereafter with an offer. Patricia’s story is in the October 17, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.
POSTED IN: News DATE: October 19th, 2011
On October 22, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) will distribute a forty-page magazine called Whisky Rocks across Ontario in The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Star as part of a larger campaign. Kicking off an innovative new partnership, the LCBO hired CWG writers exclusively to provide content, including profiles of new products, cocktail recipes, and food pairings, as well as interviews with Canadian rock star Ian Thornley and Dragon’s Den judge Kevin O’Leary. The LCBO is currently working with the CWG on another magazine for spring 2012.
The writers who contributed to Whisky Rocks, which was handsomely designed by Parcel Design, are: Jason Anderson, Leslie Anthony, Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall, Andrew Braithwaite, Andrew Clark, David Eddie, Don Genova, Robert Hercz, Denis Seguin, Jay Somerset, and Olivia Stren. Whisky Rocks was edited by CWG’s founder, Derek Finkle.
POSTED IN: News DATE: October 13th, 2011
For anyone trying to navigate their way through the challenges of the sustainable economy, making sense of it all can be a real challenge. Fortunately, help is on the way. Chris Turner, having already garnered praise for his Governor General’s Literary Award-winning The Geography of Hope, has just released The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, taking readers on a tour of renewable energy, cleantech and urban design from Copenhagen, Denmark to the American Rust Belt.
On September 28th, 2011 we are all invited to help Chris celebrate the launch of his latest book at the Gladstone Hotel at 7 PM. Space is limited so please RSVP at rsvpcanada@randomhouse.com.
Congratulations to Chris and we hope to see you all there to help celebrate.
POSTED IN: News DATE: September 21st, 2011
Three CWG writers caught the attention of the Globe and Mail this past weekend.
In “On the stand“, The Globe’s weekly roundup of best magazine reads, Trevor Cole earns kudos for his “wonderfully well-reported and cleverly shaded portrait” of Ontario PC Party leader Tim Hudak, appearing in the October issue of Toronto Life. A few paragraphs later we learn about Sara Angel’s report on the 40th anniversary of Joyce Wieland’s True Patriot Love exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, appearing in the current issue of Canadian Art.
Rounding out things, over in the Globe’s Focus section Chris Turner gives us his take on the controversy surrounding the construction of a pair of oil pipelines proposed to run from the Alberta oil sands to the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Congratulations to all for a stellar week.
POSTED IN: News DATE: September 20th, 2011
Earlier this year, Susan McGill, advisor to the information technology, communications and entertainment (ICE) practice at MaRS (the Toronto-based innovation hub), contacted CWG to find a writer who could profile 17 new-media companies it was working with. The result is “Mod Media Makers” by award-winning business writer Trevor Cole, an initiative that launches this week.
[Photo of OpenFile's Wilf Dinnick courtesy of Jeff Beardall, MaRs Studio]
POSTED IN: News DATE: August 15th, 2011
It seems only appropriate that Katrina Onstad’s engaging profile of the much-loved (and much-despised) creative force that is Miranda July appeared in a mid-July issue of the New York Times magazine. “Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding” was edited by Adam Sternbergh, who for a number of years worked in Toronto, writing and editing for Saturday Night, Toro, and GQ, among other publications.
POSTED IN: News DATE: August 2nd, 2011
This week marks the debut of The Yard – co-developed and co-written by CWG’s David Eddie - which debuts on HBO Canada July 22. The six-part half-hour miniseries takes place in the politically-charged milieu of an elementary schoolyard as two rival gangs vie for supremacy in what one of the young stars of the show, Quintin Colantoni – son of Flashpoint star Enrico Colantoni – calls a “children’s version” of The Sopranos.
POSTED IN: News DATE: July 19th, 2011
Congratulations to CWG’s Paolo Pietropaolo for being named winner of the New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Award’s Gold Medal for Best Environmental Program. This is the 6th consecutive year Paolo has been recognized by the New York Festivals and his fifth Gold Medal, this latest for directing and producing Gros Morne: The Bones of the Earth, which tells the story of the theory of plate tectonics by way of Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The shorter version of program was recently broadcast on CBC Radio One’s Ideas.
POSTED IN: News DATE: June 22nd, 2011
