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For me, membership in The Writers' Union of Canada is a lifeline. In pursuing the mainly solitary working life of a freelance writer, I've found it invaluable to have contact and interaction with other members and to have access to the informative services that TWUC offers to its members through its committed staff.
Member Profile
Tim Falconer
Tim Falconer is an author and journalist in Toronto. His new book is Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (House of Anansi, 2016).
His three other non-fiction books are about a wide range of topics, including end-of-life ethics (That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care); our love-hate relationship with the car (Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile); and activism (Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream). He’s also the co-author, with popular parenting expert Dr. Alex Russell, of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement.
He began teaching magazine journalism at Ryerson University in 1995 and has been the instructor on eight issues of the award-winning Ryerson Review of Journalism. He also teaches creative non-fiction at the University of King's College in Halifax. In 2016, he will be a faculty editor at the Banff Literary Journalism program (he was a fellow in the program in 2007). In 2012, he spent three amazing months in Dawson City, Yukon, as writer-in-residence at Berton House.
