Category Archives: fairs
January 31 | Goth Portraits at the OLA Super Conference
Do you know what the OLA Super Conference is? If you’re an Ontario librarian, you most likely do. And if you’re not an Ontario librarian, I don’t think you can even attend, so don’t worry too much about it. The OLA Super Conference (at Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre) is the annual gathering of the Ontario [...]
Also posted in books, Dead Kid Detective Agency, Dial M for Morna, Events, sketches
Tagged chris hadfield, david usher, goth portraits, librarians, libraries, manda, ola, super conference
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Telling Tales Festival - Sunday, September 15
On Sunday, September 15, I’ll be part of the 2013 Telling Tales Festival, for the first official event for Dial M for Morna!
Since 2009, Telling Tales has been bringing children’s authors, storytellers, illustrators and entertainers to picturesque (let’s assume) Rockton, Ontario, located just a half-hour’s drive from Hamilton. This year, I’ll be joining children’s authors [...]
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Tagged eric walters, kenneth oppel, kevin sylvester, marie-louise gay, meg tilley, rockton, telling tales, vikki vansickle
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Traversing the (Near) North
Last week, as part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading tour – think of a U.S.O. tour, but with children’s authors and only within Ontario – I travelled to Parry Sound and North Bay with a team of great writers (and one excellent OLA staff member, Meredith). The experience was both surreal and [...]
Also posted in books, Dead Kid Detective Agency, Forest of Reading, reading
Tagged bill swan, bobby orr, brit trogen, dionne quintuplets, forest of reading, janet wilson, kari trogen, marsha skrypuch, natalie hyde, north bay, ontario library association, parry sound, ringette, steve pitt, wesley king
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At the OLA Super Conference: January 31 & February 1
This coming week, the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference 2013 hits Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West), and this year, I’ll be there as an author! The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest education event in librarianship. The conference includes a trade show, countless [...]
Also posted in books, conventions, Dead Kid Detective Agency, postcard
Tagged follett, forest of reading, kevin sylvester, ontario library association, silver birch, whitehots
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