Webinars

The World of Book Marketing & Promotions
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
11 am PDT / 12 pm MDT, CST / 1 pm CDT / 2 pm EDT / 3 pm ADT / 3:30 pm NDT
60 minutes
Closed captioning available

Registration: $10 for non-members / free for TWUC members

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Writing your book is only half the battle, which is why award-winning author Lindsay Wong is here to share tips that she has picked up on book promotions. Hosted by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Lindsay will share her thoughts and experiences with publicists, how social media plays into a marketing strategy, and more! Webinar runs 60 minutes, including a Q&A period.

TWUC members who are unable to attend will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time.

Lindsay Wong is the author of the memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which was a finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was defended by Joe Zee on Canada Reads 2019. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University, and is now based in Vancouver, Canada. My Summer of Love and Misfortune is her first YA novel. Follow her on Twitter @LindsayMWong or on Instagram @LindsayWong.M.

Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a mixed race trans writer living in Toronto. She writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine, Bound to Struggle, and Letters Lived: Radical Reflections, Revolutionary Paths (Ed. Sheila Sampath). Her first novel, Small Beauty (Metonymy Press, 2016), received a Dayne Ogilvie Honour of Distinction for Emerging LGBTQ Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is working on upcoming works of short fiction and a second novel. 

Digital Promotions 2.0: Video Engagement
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
12 pm PDT / 1 pm MDT, CST / 2 pm CDT / 3 pm EDT / 4 pm ADT / 4:30 pm NDT
60 minutes
Closed captioning available

Registration: Free, open to TWUC members only

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Are you still perfecting your pivot to online engagement? Trevor Carolan and Rod McLean will be presenting on the ins and outs of video engagement — online readings, virtual classroom visits, perfecting a Zoomcast, and the likes! Webinar runs 60 minutes, including a Q&A period hosted by Keeley Walter from the Salt Spring Island Public Library.

TWUC members who are unable to attend will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time.

Trevor Carolan began writing for newspapers at 17 and is a widely-travelled literary journalist, poet, and critic. He has visited more than 50 countries and his books include New World Dharma; In Formless Circumstance, Road Poems; The Literary Storefront; Return to Stillness: Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master; and Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg at Hollyhock. He served as an elected municipal councillor in North Vancouver following campaigns on behalf of BC Indigenous land claims and watershed conservation issues, and is Professor Emeritus with the School of Land Use and Environmental Change at University of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver. The International Editor of Pacific Rim Review of Books since 2005, his new travel book is Road Trips: Journeys in the Unspoiled World (Mother Tongue). More at www.trevorcarolan.com.

Rod McLean is a U.S.- and Canadian-based advertising photographer and content producer living in North Vancouver, BC, with his wife and two young children. Rod specializes in active lifestyle, portrait, and landscape photography. To put it simply: Photographer, Husband, Dad, and Storyteller (with images, of course).

Keeley Walter is an Information Technician at the Salt Spring Island Public Library (SSIPL) where she helps in coordinating events with authors, poets, artists, and local patrons. Due to COVID-19, this now incorporates the domain of online programming. Prior to her work at the SSIPL, Keeley was the playwright-in-residence for the Victoria-based theatre company workingclasstheatre and was a content contributor for the online architecture and design magazine contemporist. Keeley loves exploring the Coast Salish land she is thankful to call home, and hopes to one day publish a book of short stories using the Gulf Islands as her inspiration.