The Writer’s Toolbox is a cornucopia of tips, techniques, opinions and notions about good writing—how to recognize it, how to do it, how to teach it, and why it matters.
The Toolbox grew out of the Geist in the Classroom program, which provides students and teachers of writing with free class sets (yes, free – no strings, no spam) of Geist magazine, a cultural and literary quarterly made in Canada.
Contributors to the site include:
Stephen Osborne (SO), Editor-in-Chief of Geist, who has taught writing and publishing courses at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University (The Writer’s Studio, Continuing Studies and the Master’s of Publishing Program), and whose non-fiction writing has won three Western Magazine Awards, first prize in the CBC Literary Competition, a Maclean-Hunter Arts Journalism residency, first prize in the Event Creative Non-Fiction Competition, and other honours.
Mary Schendlinger (MS), Senior Editor at Geist, who teaches a creative non-fiction writing course at UBC, and editing and publishing courses at Simon Fraser University (Continuing Studies and the Master’s of Publishing Program), and whose non-fiction writing has won the Event Creative Non-Fiction Competition and first prize in Journal Writing for the Short Grain Contest, and has been shortlisted for the 2007 Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award.
Jane Hamilton (JS) (who writes as Jane Silcott) teaches fiction and editing in the Continuing Studies Program at Langara College in Vancouver. Her writing has been published in a variety of magazines, including Geist. In 2005, she won 2nd prize in the CBC Literary Awards for non-fiction.
Dave Egan (DE) is the webmaster, codemaster, and architect of the Writer’s Toolbox.
Write to us, write about us, write with us, but whatever you do, WRITE!
—MS
Contents of the Writer’s Toolbox are protected by copyright.
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