2007 Speakers List > Detail about Presenter

2007 Presenters (Authors, Agents, Editors & Producers)

Daniel Wood, Author

Vancouver's Daniel Wood is one of Canada’s best-known magazine writers, and winner of 31 regional or national writing awards. He's also the author of 14 books. His stories often deal with conflicts around social justice, environmental abuse, and the outsider's role in a doctrinaire world. He has taught writing at Simon Fraser University for 20 years, and is one of the founders of the Federation of B.C. Writers. In recognition of his work, the Western Magazine Awards gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, the only writer so honoured.

Workshop(s)

Finding Your Way In - How to Make Magazine Writing a Career (workshop) What are the right steps to establishing a career in investigative reporting, adventure travel writing, people profiles and literary journalism?
Writing Non-fiction that Sells - From Book and Magazine Proposals to Publication (workshop) What makes one proposal stand head and shoulders above the rest? Learn how to find good story ideas and put together magazine query letters and non-fiction book proposals that appeal to acquisitions editors and agents throughout North America.