Art and craft of the magazine story

Looks like a fine series of events being hosted by the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) Toronto chapter. The first on Wednesday evening, March 22 at the Northern District Library, 40 Orchardview Blvd. (west off Yonge, just north of Eglinton); 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. It's called Fine features: Crafting that great magazine story and the panelists include:

• Cynthia Brouse, who in addition to winning a gold National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism in 2000, was lately the Managing Editor of Saturday Night and virtually wrote the book on fact checking in magazines;
• David Hayes, who is one of the most accomplished magazine feature writers in Canada and he teaches Advanced Magazine Writing in Ryerson's G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education.
• Paul Wilson, freelance writer, editor and translator. He was Associate Editor of The Idler magazine from 1988 to 1992, Senior Editor of Saturday Night magazine from 1998 to 2001, and most recently an Editor of The Walrus magazine.

Future seminars include: April 18 - Crime pays: A look at reporters who cover crime and corruption; May 16 - Well-connected: Using the Internet to write better articles

Fee: PWAC members - Free; General public - pay what you can ($10 suggested)
Afterwards: Join the panellists, PWAC members. and other writers for Beers with Peers in the Manchester Arms pub —conveniently located downstairs from the library.