Past and upcoming readings, workshops, school visits, and literary activities.

Saturday, April 17, 2010, Calgary Young Writers' Conference, Crescent Heights High School, Calgary.

January 27 & 28, 2010.  Story Avenue 2010 at the Edmonton Public School Board's Centre for Education. Writing workshops for inner city kids, grades 5-6.

October 13. PM. Sprucewood Library, with students from Mother Teresa School.

July 5-10, 2009. WordsWorth 2009: When the Phoenix Rises (click for poster). Summer Young Writers' Camp at Kamp Kiwanis, Bragg Creek, AB.

Monday, May 4, 2009. Horse Hill School, Edmonton. Writing workshops to grades 3/4 and 5/6.

April 24, 2009. Sacred Heart School, Wetaskiwin. Writing workshops with grades 6 and 9.

Saturday, April 18, 2009, 9-3, Calgary Young Writers' Conference, Crescent Heights High School, Calgary.

Thursday, February 12, 2009.  Book talks to 7 classes at the grand reopening of the library at St. Mark Junior High, Edmonton.

November 15, 2008. Scarlet's Sisters Authors Showcase lunch and book talk/sale at Elks Hall, Edmonton. This event was a blast. These ladies don't mess around--they know how to have fun!

May 8, 2008, PM. GH Primeau School, Morinville. A "book activity" for a grade 6 special needs class, and an intense after-school  writing workshop for advanced writers in grades 6-8.

May 6, 2008, PM. Montrose Elementary School, Edmonton. Writing workshops for grades 3 and 6.

May 5, 2008, PM. Win Ferguson Elementary School, Fort Saskatchewan. Writing workshops for grades 3 and 6.

April 3, 2008, AM & PM. Bennet Centre Young Writers' Camp. Writing workshops for grades 7, 8, 9.

March 31 & April 1, 2008, AM & PM. Bennet Centre Young Writers' Camp. Writing workshops for grades 4, 5, 6.

October 10, 2007, PM. Wetaskiwin Library. (YABS Reading)

October 3, 2007, AM. J.J. Bowlen Jr. H., Edmonton. (YABS Reading)

October 1, 2007, PM.  Fort Assiniboine School and Library. (YABS Reading)

May 25, 2007. Canadian Authors Association, Edmonton, AB. A talk to the membership on "Quiet Listening and Creative Practice."

May 16, 2007. Sir Alexander Mackenzie School, St. Albert. "Turning ideas into stories" with grade threes.

May 14, 2007. Holy Family Catholic School, Waskatenau, AB. Writing workshops, grades 4-9.

May 7, 2007. Legal School, Legal AB. Writing workshops.

March 31, 2007. Merrifield Books in Woodstock, ON. Reading from 2-3, Saturday afternoon. (phone 539-4220 to reserve a copy)

March 27, 2007. Wordsworth Books, Waterloo, ON.  Reading at 7:30 PM.

March 2, 2007. Presentation to a Children's Literature class at University of Alberta.

November 21, 2006. 1-3:00 PM. A productive two hour writing workshop with 50 grade sixers at St. Philip School, Edmonton.

October 14, 2006. 2:00-3:30. Kid's Writing Workshop at Edmonton Public Library (Sprucewood Branch).

October 3, 2006. Readings at St. Benedict School (as part of Read In week).

Thursday August 3, 2006. 1:00 PM (CST). International Read for Peace Week. Teleconference.

June 13, 2006. Sherwood School, Edmonton.

June 12, 2006. Hillcrest Junior High, Edmonton.

June 10, 2006. Selling and signing at Heart of the City Music Festival, Edmonton.

May 31, 2006. Dirty Thirties Primer for the grade fours at Muriel Martin Elementary in St. Albert, AB.

May 5, 2006. "Actual writing workshops" with grades 4-6 at Lauderdale Elementary in Edmonton.

May 3, 2006. Four Literacy Fair presentations at Griffiths-Scott School in Millet, AB.

March 29, 2006. Davidson Elementary School. (Davidson, Saskatchewan is the locale for Under a Living Sky.)

March 28, 2006: Saskatoon, SK. Reading & workshop at Fairhaven School. Evening reading & signing  at McNally Robinson Bookstore at 7:00 PM.

March 27, 2006. PM -- 6 school aggregate at Westview School in Prince Albert, SK. AM -- 3 school aggregate at Christopher Lake School.

December 18, 2005: sign books at Chapters near Crowfoot in Calgary.

December 17, 2005: sign books at Banff Book & Art Den.

December 16, 2005: Silver Springs Elementary (AM), McNally Robinson Bookstore (lunch), and at Calgary Academy (PM). 

On Sunday, November 6, 2005, from 2-4 in the afternoon, we had the book launch at Audreys Books in Edmonton.