Trevor Cole
Location:
Hamilton, ON and Toronto, ON
Styles:
Advertorials, Broadcast: Audio, Case studies, Columns, Corporate Communications, Essays, Features, Ghostwriting, Humour, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Social media, Web
Subjects:
Arts, Automotive, Books & literature, Broadcast, Business, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Food, Men, New media, Politics, Publishing, Restaurants, Society, Sports, Travel & tourism
Bio:
Editor Gary Salewicz has called Trevor “a consummate professional” endowed with “prodigious talent,” a writer who is fearless in his pursuit of the story and serious about his craft. Trevor worked as a magazine editor at The Globe and Mail for a dozen years before turning full-time to writing. In addition to his journalism he has won awards for his satire. And as a novelist he has garnered national acclaim, praised for fiction that is both funny and profound, and for prose “as clear as a mountain stream.”
Publications/Client List:
- Report on Business magazine
- Toronto Life
- The Walrus
- University of Toronto Magazine
Books:
- Practical Jean (2010, McClelland & Stewart)
- The Fearsome Particles (2006, McClelland & Stewart)
- Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life (2004, McClelland & Stewart)
Other Projects:
Currently developing Norman Bray for television. Creator of AuthorsAloud.com, a website devoted to audio readings by Canadian authors
Awards:
Nine National Magazine awards, including three Gold medals. Twice short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, twice long-listed for the International Dublin IMPAC Award, short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book (Canada-Caribbean region)
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