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Young Voices Writers Conference
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Work with professional writers on your fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, journalism, visual arts and script writing! Get published in an instant anthology. Meet other youth who like to write.
Open Mic - Food (Free Lunch!) - Door prizes
North York Central Library
5120 Yonge Street (North York Centre subway stop)
Registration and Light Breakfast at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, October 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Andrew Pyper (fiction)
Andrew Pyper is the author of five bestselling novels, most recently The Guardians, as well as Kiss Me, a collection of short stories. His first novel, Lost Girls, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Arthur Ellis Award, The Trade Mission was a Top Ten Book in the Toronto Star, The Wildfire Season was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year, and The Killing Circle was a New York Times Best Crime Novel. Four of his five novels are in active development for feature film.
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Meredith Blackmore (visual arts)
Meredith Blackmore has been "drawn" to the arts all her life. She studied at the National Ballet School as a girl. Her first job, in teenage years, was as a portrait artist at Canada's Wonderland, drawing faces in pastel. She focused on Sculpture and Printmaking at the University of Guelph and completed her Fine Arts degree in 1999. Afterward her art turned almost exclusively to Drawing and Painting. She is now a portrait and mural artist and paints mainly figurative works, including commissions. Each painting, for her, is a way of honouring people, of getting to know who we are. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Jane Graham Memorial Arts Award for professional development of a working artist. In 2010, she was featured as a winning artist on an episode of BravoTV's Star Portraits.
Meredith has taught art workshops in a diversity of home-towns, from Agassiz, British Columbia to Bogotá, Colombia. She now lives in Fergus, Ontario, and teaches through The Elora Centre for the Arts and The Wellington County Museum and as a guest at various schools.
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Marjorie Chan (script writing)
Marjorie is an award-winning playwright and performer based in Toronto, passionate about creating art with and for youth. Her works have been performed in Canada, the U.S., Russia, and Hong Kong. She often mentors writers through such organizations as PEN Canada, Cahoots Theatre Company, Diaspora Dialogues, Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Playwrights' Guild of Canada, and Nightwood Theatre. As a facilitator and mentor, she has taught in elementary, high-school, and university environments here in Canada, Hong Kong as well as in New York. Marjorie also runs Crossing Gibraltar, an outreach, training and performance program for refugee and newcomer youth, for which she was recently nominated for the Canadian Citizenship Award.
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Evan Munday (graphic novels)
Evan Munday is the illustrator of the novel Stripmalling, written by Jon Paul Fiorentino (ECW 2009), and is the cartoonist behind the self-published comic book, Quarter-Life Crisis, set in a post-apocalyptic Toronto. He works as a book publicist for Coach House Books. The Dead Kid Detective Agency is his first novel. He lives in Toronto, ON.
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Ken Sparling (instant anthology)
Ken Sparling is the author of five novels, the most recent being Book (Pedlar Press, 2010), and works as a communications officer at Toronto Public Library where he organizes the Editorial Youth Advisory Group, which is responsible for selecting the pieces that go into Young Voices, the library's magazine of teen writing and artwork.
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Hannah Sung (journalism)
Hannah Sung is a journalist with a focus on the arts and lifestyle. She is
currently a columnist with the Globe and Mail and Flare magazine. She
has worked in TV, radio, print and interactive media. Her TV and multimedia
work has been seen on CBC, MSN Canada, Project Runway Canada and
MuchMusic, where she was the host of The NewMusic and MuchNews. Her
essay, "Rap Sheet to Rap Record: Harnessing the Power of Music" was
published in Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement by Coach House
Books. She is a 2010 - 2011 Fellow at the Writers' Institute at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. She can be found online at
hannahsung.com.
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Kevin Sylvester (non-fiction)
Kevin Sylvester is an award winning illustrator, writer and broadcaster.
His series The Neil Flambé Capers is already a bestseller and critical success. Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders was released in spring 2010. It was picked as the Silver Birch winner for fiction in 2011! Book #2 Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction was released in fall 2010. Book #3 Neil Flambé and the Crusader Curse is due in Spring 2012.
He is also the author of Sports Hall of Weird and Gold Medal for Weird for kids and Shadrin Has Scored for Russia for bigger kids. Gold Medal for Weird won the 2009 Silver Birch for Non-Fiction. Sports Hall was the runner-up in 2007.
He has been a broadcaster on national radio in Canada for years and years and has covered eight Olympic Games. He also produced documentaries on topics ranging from racism in hockey to the history of church bells in Canada.
He now splits his time between his attic studio in Toronto and the radio. He was named a Massey Journalism Scholar in 2007 and used the time to study theology at the University of Toronto.
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Priscila Uppal (poetry/open mic)
Priscila Uppal is a poet, novelist and York University professor. Her international publications include Ontological Necessities (shortlisted for the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize), Traumatology, Successful Tragedies (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.), Winter Sport: Poems (written as Canadian Athletes Now poet-in-residence for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games), the novels The Divine Economy of Salvation and To Whom It May Concern, and the study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy. Her works have been translated into numerous languages including Dutch, Greek, Korean, Latvian, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian. Time Out London U.K. recently dubbed her "Canada's coolest poet." For more information visit priscilauppal.ca
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