Okanagan College presents a weekend of writing with internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Gail Anderson-Dargatz May 18 and 19 at the Vernon campus. The four workshops offered over the weekend are "Writing Home" or writing from personal stories; "So You Want to Write a Novel;" "Writing...
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Jane Barker Wright
Jane Barker Wright is perhaps Canada's slowest writer. She grew up in Ottawa and was educated at Queen's University, McArthur College of Education, and UBC. In 1988, her novel, The Tasmanian Tiger was published. Her new novel, The Understanding, is now available. She writes a semi-annual book column for the magazine, Horticulture.
E-mail: jbwright@axionet.com
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Publications
The Understanding. The Porcupine's Quill, 2002.
The Tasmanian Tiger. Vancouver: Polestar, 1988.
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