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Hot Type
WRITING THAT MOVES, MOTIVATES & INSPIRES
» Thursday 17 July 2008 | 4:30 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing the people and ideas featured in Okanagan Arts. Join us as
writers Mike Harwood, Maggie Reigh, Devon Muhlert and writer and editor Jim Taylor provide insights into the wonderful world of publishing.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Writers Open the Books on Publishing
New fiction titles might grab the big buck awards and the headlines, but it's non-fiction that continues to make the publishing world go round. According to the latest figures available from Bowker, the industry expert, there were 276,000 new titles published last year in the U.S. alone and nearly 80 per cent of those were non-fiction.
This week writers and readers can learn more about how the non-fiction world works when the Okanagan Institute Express series hosts Hot Type: Writing That Moves, Motivates & Inspires on Thursday, July 17 at 4:30 pm at the Bohemian Café. Publisher, editor and writer Jim Taylor, and three top writers, offer different perspectives on how to approach this lucrative field - including getting good money for your work.
 Jim Taylor is known in publishing circles as the editor's editor. Author of 17 books, he's the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the publishing house Wood Lake Books. Recently he was honoured with a lifetime membership to the Editors' Association of Canada for his achievements and development of the program Eight-Step Editing, which helps writers and editors identify and fix the most common obstacles to readership. He has been the managing editor of the United Church of Canada's national magazine and the founding editor of a professional clergy journal.
 Mike Harwood has been a profession writer for more than 10 years. Author of 14 books, including the bestseller Computer Networking, he focuses on technical writing, Harwood's career truly got underway when he published IT Careers Guide in 1999. In his spare time, he writes humour columns and is currently crafting the pilot for Citizen Jane, which will launch on CBC Radio this September.
 Maggie Reigh is a parenting expert and author of 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child, and the family educational kit Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrum, plus several CD recordings. For many years, Maggie appeared weekly as a parenting consultant on both radio and television, and is a popular guest on radio and television today.
 Devon Muhlert is an award-winning photojournalist and arts writer who has been published around the globe, including The International Choral Bulletin, a magazine of the global society for choral music. Recently she has been researching the growing non-fiction movement in the North Okanagan, including the rise of the Kalamalka Press.
Hot Type: Writing That Moves, Motivates & Inspires is a free event, and takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 49th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007. Since that time, the series has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, architect Jim Meiklejohn, and others from a variety of creative fields.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
Okanagan Institute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home. Express is sponsored in part by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Publishing, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that have gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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