CanWrite! 2010 Program

Program Schedule

Thursday, June 24
Time Block: Event Details:
3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. National Executive Meeting
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Manuscript Evaluations with Patrick Taylor                                
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese Welcome Reception
8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Open Mic Reading Opportunity

 

Friday, June 25
Time Block: Event Details:
7:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
4:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.		 Registration
7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Walk around the harbour or gym time
8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Opening Breakfast
  Keynote Speaker — Patrick Taylor
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee break
10:30 a.m. – noon Session 1 Poetry — Linda Rogers, Victoria Poet Laureate
Session 2 From Oral Tradition to Printed Page — Richard Wagamese
Session 3 Access Copyright — Erin Finlay
12 noon – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Buffet (Branch Presidents working lunch)
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Session 1 Social Media Networking Panel — Moderator Perry Wilson Session 2 Online Editing & Formatting — John Chandler
Session 3 Screenwriting & New Media — Rodger Cove
Blue Pencil Sessions
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Session 1 Fiction — Caroline Adderson
Session 2 Power Point Presentations 101 — John Chandler
Session 3 Structure for the Storyteller — Rodger Cove
Blue Pencil Sessions
4:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Dinner Break (not included — enjoy one of the local restaurants)
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. CAA Literary Awards Short-listed Readings
  Keynote Speaker — Richard Wagamese
  Munro Books — bookstore for presenters' books

 

Saturday, June 26
Time Block: Event Details:
7:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.		 Registration
7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Walk around the harbour or gym time
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Munro Books — bookstore for presenters' books and
Trade Show on conference level foyer
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session 1 Memoir Writing — Lois Peterson
Session 2 Presentation Skills — Anthony Dalton
Session 3 Writing for Young Adults — kc dyer
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Coffee break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Session 1 EBooks — Steve Crowhurst
Session 2 Digital Photography, Camera to Manuscript — Don Rathborne
Session 3 Multi-media Poetry — Janet Marie Rogers
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Buffet — Comedy by Bill Hay
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Publishers' Panel — Moderator Anthony Dalton
Blue Pencil Sessions
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Session 1 Non-fiction — Dr. Trevor Carolan
Session 2 Women's Fiction — Carol Mason
Session 3 Electronic Rights for Writers — Jeff Young
4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Trade Show and Book Sales
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Pre-dinner Gathering & Silent Auction viewing
6:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. CAA Literary Awards Banquet
  Keynote Speakers — Julie & Colin Angus
 
Awards Presentations
 
Silent Auction

 

Sunday, June 27
Time Block: Event Details:
7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Walk around the harbour or gym time
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Healthy Start Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Canadian Authors Association Annual General Meeting               
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CAA National Executive Meeting (working lunch)

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Updated: June 21, 2010