Laura Sturgeon At the age of 12, Laura Sturgeon had begun her writing journey, which has led into the publication of a short story compilation, In Bloom, a junior fiction novel, The Big Ugly Sweater, a young adult novel, Alone in the Castle and a picture book, Where in the World Will I Find the Perfect Pet. Laura has contributed a short story, Pit Stop Peril for a collection of works by local authors, Port Alberniology, and has  written several editions of Our Voice, a publication for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Laura also writes the occasional news article for Black Press and is a regular contributor with Electric Mermaid at Char's Landing. 

 

Kathleen Vance has a PhD in German (UBC) and taught workplace communication at BCIT for 30 years. Based on workplace interviews and tours of mills, mines and labs, she wrote countless stories that placed students in real-life dilemmas that they would have to write themselves out of. She co-authored with Dale Fitzpatrick the textbook Writing for Success (Pearson ERPI, 1998). In addition to writing a novel for middle-grade readers, she has contributed to the anthology Don’t Tell: Family Secrets (Demeter Press, Jan 2023), which may be preordered for 30% off with coupon code MOTHERS at http://demeterpress.org/books/dont-tell-family-secrets/. Kathleen is a contributor to Alberniology, RCN Media Publishing, 2021, available at rcnmedia.com. Kathleen trained teachers in Beijing and Hunan; published journal articles; and was a contributing author for Hard Jobbin' (Ride the Wind, 2001, Ceridwen Collins-West, ed).

 

David Kipling I’m a lifelong autosport fan and drag race announcer who has twice undergone race tuition. I run an archive website on British stock-car racing history. (www.oldstox.com), and have sporadically written autosport journalism. I taught technical communication at BCIT for thirty years. After six years of drumming classes under a patient professional drummer, I decided not to change my day job. My letters go out continually to editors, and I feed my happy addiction toreading and writing by taking part in groups such as THE ELECTRIC MERMAID in Port Alberni, through whose kindness I was able to publish a short story in their ALBERNIOLOGY collection.

 

 

READER 01 0:04:30 Jennifer Wen 5 min Via  Zoom ( London  Ont )

READER 02 0:10:30 Joy Sheldon  5min  Via   zoom  ( Cowichan  B.C.)

FEATURE 01 0:16:00 Laura Sturgeon 15min in person ( Port Alberni B.C. )

FEATURE 02 0:32:30 Kathleen Vance 15min in person ( Gibsons Landing B.C. )

FEATURE 03 0:53:50 David Kipling 15min in person ( Gibsons Landing B.C. )

*SOCIALBREAK* 1:14:00

READER 03 1:26:10 Robert Gunn 5 min in  person  ( Port Alberni B.C.) => sorry the stage mic was switched off !!!

READER 04 1:30:30 Joe Lunchbucket  5 min in  Person  ( Port Alberni B.C. ) => sorry the stage mic was switched off !!!

READER 05 1:35:00 Monica Ahlroos 5min  in  Person  (Port  Alberni B.C. )

READER 06 1:44:30 Vicki Drybough  5 min in  Person ( Port Alberni  B.C. )

READER 07 1:51:20 Sharon Saunders 5min in Persinn ( Port Alberni B.C. )

READER 00 1:56:00 Derek Hanebury 

 

READER 04 2:05:00 Joe Lunchbucket retake

 

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