Canadian Authors Association and SF Canada Webinar: Hacking the Future – Working with Emerging Technologies

JE Solo has been working with emerging technologies throughout their career, mostly so that they can use these technologies as tools to build and present new performance, music, media art, and writing. From creating networked performances for virtual spaces, to using webcams and game controllers to connect performer and avatar, to intervening in video game…

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Finding the Fun in Children’s Nonfiction

Non-fiction is NOT fiction’s boring cousin. Join children’s non-fiction author Rachel Poliquin as she explores the use of fictional elements like character development, world-building, and dialogue in non-fiction writing and learn a few tips and techniques to create wildly entertaining and educational books for kids. *7:30PM Atlantic* Presented by the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award…

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Writing Tough Topics for Young Readers

Join 2023 Hackmatack award nominees Laura Best (The Family Way, Nimbus Publishing, 2021), Edeet Ravel (A Boy is Not a Ghost, Groundwood Books, 2021), and Valerie Sherrard (Birdspell, Cormorant Books, 2021) for a discussion on writing difficult topics for middle grade readers. In conversation with Stephanie Domet (AfterWords Literary Festival), the authors will explain how…

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