Meghan J. Ward - outdoor, travel and adventure writer
working with words in the heart of the Canadian Rockies
Writers are some of the most passionate people I know. When we become hooked by a particular idea, story or controversy, we dive into it, swimming in the depths of the material, research, interviews – anything we can get our hands on – before bringing the story to the surface.
Last night I attended a fascinating panel discussion at The Communitea Cafe in Canmore about the state of Canada’s book and magazine industry. The panel, moderated by the Globe and Mail’s Ian Brown, included Jackie Flanagan, founder of albertaviews; Lynn Coady and Curtis Gillespie, founders and editors of Eighteen Bridges; and Anne Collins, publisher extraordinaire [...]
Oh, Twitter. The land of abbreviations, mentions, RTs, bit.ly and #FF. Don’t have a clue what those are? Perhaps you should and here’s why: 1. Exposure I joined Twitter on April 26, 2009, and started the account as a way to continue branding myself as a writer, choosing @yaheweha (mountain woman in the Stoney language) [...]
You might have heard of the controversy over Canada’s new copyright bill. If not, I encourage you to watch this video. Over the course of the last few months, thousands of artists and writers, including me, have been writing to their local MPs in protest of the bill, which among other things, robs artists and [...]
