Christopher Shulgan
Location:
Toronto, ON
Styles:
Blogging, Broadcast: Video, Columns, Copywriting: Direct, Copywriting: New Media, Copywriting: Print, Corporate Communications, Essays, Features, Ghostwriting, How-To, Humour, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Proposals, Public relations, Reports/Whitepapers, Scriptwriting, Social media, Speechwriting, Web
Subjects:
Adventure, Arts, Automotive, Books & literature, Business, Communication technologies, Culture & community, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Family & parenting, Fitness, Home decor & renovation, Kids products, Men, Music, New media, Politics, Publishing, Real estate, Recreation & leisure, Science & technology, Sex and relationships, Society, Sports, Travel & tourism, Wilderness & wildlife, Women
Bio:
Christopher Shulgan is the author of two books and a contributor of essays and research-intensive feature articles to numerous magazines and newspapers in Canada and the United States. He writes a parenting column for Eye Weekly and blogs frequently at www.shulgan.com. Shulgan also is an accomplished ghostwriter who can mold his writing to fit the narrative voice of any number of anonymous clients on Bay Street and in corporate Canada.
Publications/Client List:
The Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly
Books:
- The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika (McClelland and Stewart, 2008)
- Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood (Key Porter, 2010)
Other Projects:
Currently ghost-writing a book for a Canadian non-governmental organization.
Awards:
- Shortlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction (2009)
Honoured as one of four finalists for the $40,000 prize, the biggest in Canadian non-fiction, for my first book, The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika (McClelland & Stewart, June 2008). The jury consisted of Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, investigative journalist Stevie Cameron and prolific author Andreas Schroeder. - National Magazine Award nominee, One Of A Kind (2009)
For a story that appeared in the Walrus (May 2008), chronicling the 1980 trip to B.C.’s Doukhobor community of Russian pacifists made by Soviet ambassador to Canada Aleksandr Yakovlev, examining whether the trip pushed Yakovlev toward the perestroika he championed later as advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev. - National Magazine Award winner, Politics and Public Interest (2007)
- National Magazine Award nominee, Investigative Reporting (2007)
A gold medal win for a piece about the December 2005 death of RCMP officer Mark Bourque in Haiti. Researching the piece required a visit to the violent Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of Cité Soleil and turned up photographs taken moments before Bourque’s death that called into question the UN’s official account. - National Magazine Award nominee, Arts and Entertainment (2007)
For a profile in The Globe and Mail newspaper’s Report on Business magazine about the Canadian billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, whose novel take on film production created Good Night, and Good Luck and An Inconvenient Truth, among others. - National Magazine Award nominee, Service Journalism (2006)
Honouring a humour piece published in the April 2005 issue of Toro magazine, a memoir about the science and melancholy of thinning hair. - National Magazine Award nominee, Business Writing (2004)
Honouring a feature article published in The Globe and Mail newspaper’s Report on Business magazine, chronicling a remarkably nasty shareholder dispute involving the controversial Montreal-based animation company, Cinar Corp. - National Newspaper Award nominee, Explanatory Journalism (2003)
Honouring a profile published in The Ottawa Citizen about Dr. Baher Abdulhai, a University of Toronto scientist whose work may one day end traffic jams forever.
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