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Name: Kate
Merlin
Location: Riverview,
NB
Level: Professional
Specialties: science, nature,
agriculture. Corporate writing projects have included fact sheets, editing a
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Bio: Kate
Merlin has a BSc in ecology and systematics and an MSc in botany and
genetics. Her love of nature and hiking was the impetus behind her
book Trails of Greater Moncton
published by Goose Lane Editions in 2003.
Publications: Come On In Magazine, YES Mag (a science magazine for
children), Small Farm Canada, Airlines Magazine, Gulf of Maine
Times, Atlantic Books Today, Atlantic Business Magazine, Saltscapes,
Atlantic Co-operator, and That Riverview Magazine.
Website: http://www.katemerlin.ca
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Name:
Deborah Carr
Location: Hillsborough, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties: brochures, copywriting,
advertising copy, brochures (content & design), press releases,
web content, creative and corporate writing workshops
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Bio: With over 100
articles contributed to newspapers, magazines, websites, and other
publications, Deborah's main interests are nature, conservation,
people profiles, business and travel. She also delivers 'Nature of
Words' writing workshops. Deborah adheres to her golden retriever's
philosophy: the best way to truly experience life is to get down and
roll in it.
Publications: Saltscapes,
Occasions, Homemakers, Acreage Life, CARP, Outdoor
Canada, Nature Canada, Wildlife Canada, Atlantic Salmon Journal,
Progress, Islands, Golf Inc., Atlantic Travel Guide, Atlantic
Books Today and Atlantic
Co-operators, and the non-fiction book: In Vino Veritas:
How an Old German Tradition becomes New Brunswick's Windfall.
Coming Fall 2010, Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka
(Goose Lane Editions).
Website: http://www.deborahcarr.ca;
www.natureofwords.ca
Blog: http://deborahcarr.ca/blogspot.com
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Name: Allison
Finnamore
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties: Agriculture communications, news and
feature writing, media
releases, company and membership newsletters, website content,
brochures – Let’s tell the world about farming.
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Bio: Some farmers specialize in
beef or potatoes - Allison Finnamore specializes in cultivating
words through agricultural-based communications and stories. After
almost 20 years as a journalist and writer, Allison brings a depth
of knowledge to farm writing projects with her history in the
industry and awareness of current agricultural issues. She is
currently editor of Farm Credit Canada’s weekly email newsletter,
AgriSuccess Express.
Publications: Award winning writer recognized by
the Canadian Farm Writers Federation, credits in agricultural trade
publications across Canada, author of two creative non-fiction
books, East Coast Murders (summer, 2005) and Big Jim
Colosimo, Chicago's Flashiest Gangster.
Website: http://www.finnamore.ca
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| Name:
Joan LeBlanc
Location: Woodside, NB
Near Port Elgin, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties:
News and feature articles, press releases, text for brochures
and web sites, editorials and advertising copy. Digital photography,
including wedding and personal portraits. |
Bio: A writer and
journalist with more than 13 years experience, Joan tackles any type of assignment but has a penchant for all things historical. Over the years
she has interviewed countless persons,
adding dimension to each story with her own photography.
Recently she's ventured into the world of fiction, writing adult and
children's short stories
Publications: Writer and publisher of Confederation
Bridge Commemorative Edition: A Bridge in the Making, 1993-1997;
contributor to Canadian Heritage Adventures; regular
columnist for Sackville Tribune Post and former columnist for
Moncton Times Transcript.; Published in Sackville Tribune-Post,
Moncton Times Transcript, Saint John Telegraph Journal, Fredericton
Gleaner, Amherst Daily News, Toronto Star, Progress Magazine, Old
Autos Magazine, Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada, Canadian Fruit
Grower, Atlantic Post Calls.
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Name:
Brian Cormier
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties:
news releases, media advisories, media analysis, speeches, fact
sheets, backgrounders, general editing, proofreading, translation
(French to English, non-certified), biographical writing, humour,
corporate writing, web. |
Bio: He writes Hump
Day, a humour/general interest column, and Social Media Matters, a
column dealing dealing with social media issues. He also maintains
two blogs, Brian Cormier – Social Media Matters, and Brian Cormier’s
Blogtastic World.
Publications: Various newspapers and blogs.
Blog: http://briancormier.blogspot.com
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Name:
Rayanne Brennan
Location: Moncton, N.B.
Level: Professional
Specialties: Public
Relations, Media Relations, Communications, marketing strategies,
News, feature, corporate writing, and editing |
Bio: Rayanne Brennan has over
two decades experience in print journalism, corporate communications
and government relations, including management of three weekly
newspapers. Her work as a freelance photojournalist has been widely
published in international, national and regional publications.
Rayanne is editor of The Atlantic Co-operator and a regular
contributor to Atlantic Business magazine. She operates an
independent communications consultancy and editorial services firm
– Brennan Communications.
Publications: From Atlantic Trucking and Tree & Forest to
Rural Delivery and Farm Focus, Rayanne has contributed to a wide
range of general interest and industry publications from
Florenceville to Finland.
Website: http://www.rayannebrennan.com
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Name:
Wendy Kitts
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties: people profiles, travel, arts & culture,
social justice, small business, lit critique, children’s writing,
speeches, news releases, corporate investment booklets, writing
& art workshops, illustration and business card & brochure
concept and design. |
Bio: Corporate or creative, writing or design, Wendy does it
all through Communications by Design,
her writing and graphic design business. Whether a profile on a
best-selling author, a business card for a start-up company, or a
speech for a national politician, Wendy believes at the heart of
every effective communication is a story, and the best part of her
job is unearthing that story and giving it voice by pen, brush or
mouse.
Publications: Reader's Digest, Globe & Mail, More Magazine, the Beaver, Saltscapes, Canadian
Children's Book News, Our Choice, Atlantic Books Today,
Atlantic Co-operators, The Chronicle Herald, The New Brunswick
Reader, Moncton Times & Transcript, Metro Marquee and [here]. Wendy was a contributing author for Breaking
the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read (Goose Lane
Editions, 2009) and has an upcoming children’s book, Sable
Island: The Wandering Sandbar, to be published fall 2011.
Website: http://www.wendykitts.ca
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Name:
Bernard C. Cormier
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties:
Entertainment-Related Reviews/Interviews (with Photography), Humor,
First-Person Investigative Reporting, Experimenting/ Limit-Pushing,
Biographical Writing, Radio Broadcasting/Writing, Commentaries, and
Fiction |
Bio: Bernard C. Cormier, after
being involved with media at various capacities for over a decade,
began writing for periodicals in 2005. Beginning with the launch of
a graphic novel review column, he has experimented with a variety of
subjects and styles (i.e.: a bilingual article without translation).
He was a judge in the Print Journalism category at the Jeux
franco-canadiens de la communication in 2010. Due to his persistent
nature, he has interviewed a wide range of people: from locals to
niche-market superstars [i.e.: UK writer Alan Moore (Watchmen)]. His
articles get noticed.
Publications: CBC Radio, Comics
Buyer's Guide, Going Natural / Au Naturel, Tcj.com (website of The
Comics Journal), CBGXtra.com (website of Comics Buyer's Guide),
Times & Transcript, Here (aka: [Here]), Canadaeast.com,
Herenb.com, Boom, CJCJ, CIKX
Website: http://www.myspace.com/bernardccormier
Blog: http://bernardccormier.blogspot.com
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Name:
Brett Anningson
Location: Moncton, N.B.
Level: Professional
Specialties: Social
Issues, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, (life) column writing, pop
culture, research and analysis, speech writing, editing, science
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Bio: Brett has social science
education in politics and philosophy at the graduate level. He has
worked for 14 years writing articles and policy within the religious
institution. His non-fiction has been published in trade magazines,
local newsletters, and government policy journals. He currently
writes a social analysis column for the Times and Transcript. He has
also worked as the Business Manager for a major scholarly magazine;
and writes speculative science fiction.
Publications: ARC
Theological Journal, The Observer, Times & Transcript
Blog: http://brettanningson.blogspot.com/
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| Name:
Rhonda Herrington Bulmer
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties:
Fiction or creative non-fiction for children and teens.
Ghostwriting, corporate newsletters, columns or website content,
news releases, press kit or promotional material. |
Bio: Rhonda's early
career centered on public relations, layout and design. More
recently, study with the Institute for Children’s Literature
helped revive her adolescent dream of making her living writing for
young adults and middle-grade children. Currently, she writes
business and general interest articles and columns while seeking a
publisher for her first young adult novel, “Rachel’s
Manifesto”.
Publications: CBC Radio, Cottage Life magazine,
Moncton This Week, and various other ghostwritten blog and
newsletter pieces on behalf of local entrepreneurs.
Website: http://www.ladywriter.ca
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Name:
Lana Hanson
Location: Moncton, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties: communications
plans, web writing and design, press releases, brochures, signage,
ghostwriting for print messages, video scripts and speeches. |
Bio: Corporate career spanning
more than 13 years specializing in communications, sales, business
planning and relationship management. Now on her own with Your View
Communications, she is uses her knowledge bank to help small and
medium business owners grow their business using web, print and
social media. Lana's background is telecommunications but has a
curious mind that spans to many industries. Of particular interest
are education, politics, business, construction and hospitality. It
has been said that Lana's "wheels are always in motion".
Her passion and creativity ignite a spark - turning the simplest of
plans into something truly memorable.
Web writing: www.homesmetromoncton.com,
www.intonewnusedsports.com,
www.hillsidebuilders.ca,
www.nycohomebuilders.ca,
www.medicfirstaid.ca,
www.centertainment.ca,
www.bnbnetworking.ca
Website: http://yourviewcommunications.ca
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Name:
Lynda MacGibbon
Location: Moncton, N.B.
Level: Professional
Specialties: Lynda is an
experienced journalism professor, having taught a third-year course
at Crandall University in Moncton for several years. She also
provides writing seminars for corporate and non-profit clients.
Other recent projects include corporate newsletters, and capital
campaign brochures. |
Bio: Lynda MacGibbon BJ (Hons)
has been writing, editing and teaching about the written word for
the past 20 years. Her passion for the written word took her through
a journalism degree (University of King's College, Halifax, NS),
which led to a short stint with CBC Radio as a documentary writer
and writing radio commercials. Then she settled into her true
calling as a newspaper reporter and editor, a career she followed
full-time for 15 years, with a three year interlude in corporate
media relations.
Publications: The Bone
Fields (Goose Lane) featuring Lynda's essays coupled with the work
of artist Dan Steeves. Currently, Lynda writes a weekly
newspaper column called People, Places and Things, for the Moncton
Times & Transcript.
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| Name:
Kathy Mercure
Location: Dieppe, NB
Level: Professional
Specialties:
copywriting, advertising copy, brochures, web content,
editorial, ghost-blogging, news releases and production management. |
Bio: In 20 years-plus years of
writing, Kathy has written copy for everything from ads and
brochures to social marketing campaigns and web sites. She has a
gift for engaging the reader and drawing them into the information
through a conversational, comfortable, plain language style — even
with complex and technical topics. Her newest passion is for
blogging and her latest goal is to pursue writing for magazines.
Publications: Contributing Editor for
Innovations Magazine (Moncton)
Website:
www.writenow-communications.ca
Blogs: Eating the Rainbow,
Musings of an East Coast Gal,
Right Here. Writenow!
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