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Words to live by! Writers and Editors Seminar

Join us on May 8th for a seminar featuring three great sessions.

Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel
1:00pm - 4:00 pm
Fee: $35.00 (regular admission) Students $20
Tax Included

To register download your registration form here or visit atlanticmagazines.ca

Registration Deadlline: May 5th

Fax or mail this form to
Nancy Middlemiss
 c/o Metro Guide Publishing
1300 Hollis Street,
Halifax, NS B3J 1T6
Tel: 420-9943 Fax 902-429-9058
nmiddlemiss@metroguide.ca
Make check payable to Atlantic Magazines Association


Raising a story

What does it take to make a good story? David Holt’s Raising a Story seminar takes writers and editors from the birth of an idea, either from a writer or an editor, to maturity as a published article. Holt explains how writers can take that initial concept and mould it into a story, while leaving room for new insights as the research comes along. The seminar addresses why knowing your audience is critical and how and why to keep a story in line with the mission of the publication.  Writers and editors by nature, think in words. This seminar encourages literary types to think in terms of visuals and photo opportunities, and how an author can capitalize on an image through the use of heads and decks.

Speaker: David Holt Editor and co-founder of OptiMYZ, a fitness, health and lifestyle magazine in Atlantic Canada (and perhaps Canada in 2011). Strategy column at Progress magazine; was founding editor. Involved in several startups. Writing a book on strategy. 
 
Past lives: Hydrographer at Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Staffer at Eastern Woods & Waters magazine.
 
Educated US and France. Married with two children.
 
Enjoys the outdoors, travel, fitness, adventure, talented people of every stripe.

Write, Live, Eat

“I want to be a writer when I grow up.” It’s a childhood dream that has made more than one parent cringe and rapidly suggest a number of more lucrative and sure-fire career paths. In Write, Live, Eat, award-winning author Eleanor Beaton tackles what it takes to be a successful freelance writer from a business perspective. After all, you can’t eat a story, no matter how good it is. Learn from Beaton how to identify what publishers want, how to negotiate, and most importantly, how to make a living as a writer.

Speaker: Eleanor Beaton is writer and PR consultant living in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She studied English and Economic History at Trinity College, University of Toronto and Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has won several major journalism prizes, including two golds in the Atlantic Journalism Awards and a CBC Radio Program Award. Her magazine work has also been recognized by the National Magazine Awards. She has written for the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, PROFIT, and Atlantic Business Magazine. This fall, a book she co-authored on Nova Scotia’s oil and gas industry with Jim Meek will be published by Nimbus.

Talking to Editors

As a writer and a magazine editor, Barry Boyce has experienced both sides of the magazine editorial world. Writers need to be published to be successful; editors in turn, need good stories to publish to be successful. Barry Boyce’s Talking to Editors seminar is a must attend for writers—offering up advice for writers from an editor’s perspective. How to court an editor, what editors respect, and how to work with and listen to an editor while still maintaining your own integrity as a writer.

Speaker: Barry Boyce began his journalism career as a legislative and financial reporter in Washington DC. In 1998, he began a regular column for the Halifax Daily News and is now senior editor and features writer at the Shambhala Sun magazine. His work has also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe & Mail, Salon, and on CBC radio and television. He won a 2005 AJA for best magazine profile and in 2006 for best magazine article.

Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel

In conjunction with the Atlantic Journalism Awards