Celebrating the depth and diversity of BC publishing
Join us Sunday, March 26, 2 pm, Mission Point House, 4603 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Davis Bay, for two extraordinary guests.
Cheryl Stephens, a leader in plain language communications, presents Write for the Reader Brain.
Cheryl Stephens found her calling as an educator, trainer, and consultant in communications. For over thirty years she has been writing, speaking, and teaching about plain language, helping clients to become more successful communicators using plain language principles.
Cheryl has mined the varied fields of neuroscience to apply research results to explain human processes for reading, thinking, and decision-making. Since 2019, she has been speaking internationally about writing for the reader brain.
Cheryl has three books in process with publication expected this year. Her earlier works include Plain Language Legal Writing and Plain Language In Plain English. Learn more about her at cherylstephens.com
After a refreshment and social break, starting at 3:30 pm:
Catherine McNeil (Cat Mac) will read from her new poetry book emily & elspeth (Caitlin Press). The delightful cover of the book was created by local artist RoseAnn Janzen.
She is the author of under the influence (Bedazzled Ink) 2016 which won Milieu’s National Emerging Writers Competition. She has been widely published in literary magazines, including Event, Queer Chroma, Sinister Wisdom, and the Capilano Review, and in anthologies throughout Canada, the United States & England for the past thirty years. She lives in Halfmoon Bay, BC, with her dog, Gaia and her cat, Lavender. She is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Book sales and signing to follow.
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