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Aylee Consulting
162-2025 Corydon Ave., Suite 55
Winnipeg, MB R3P 0N5
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Students: please send a photocopy of your current student ID with the form.
Questions?
E-mail: meaworkshops@gmail.com
Phone: 204-489-3452
Refund Policy: Cancellations up to and including Wednesday, May 11, 2011, are subject to a $25 administration fee. Registration fees are non-refundable for cancellations on or after Thursday, May 12, 2011.
Speaker Bios
 Mary-Ann Kirkby is a best-selling author and journalist whose first book, I Am Hutterite, chronicles her childhood experiences of life on a Manitoba Hutterite colony, and the aftermath of leaving community life.
In November 2007, her memoir received the Best Non-fiction award at the
Saskatchewan Book Awards, and was short-listed for Best First Book. Since its release in June 2007, I Am Hutterite has sold 75,000 copies across Canada.
Mary-Ann is owner of Polka Dot Press Inc., and as President was responsible for all aspects of her book’s production from lay-out and design to sales, marketing, and distribution. In 2010, she signed with American publishers Thomas Nelson, granting them American and worldwide rights, and struck a distribution deal with Canadian publisher Key Porter.
As a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, Mary-Ann delights audiences with her humour and candid descriptions of life on and off the colony.
 Anita Daher draws writing inspiration from the many places she has been fortunate to spend time, including Summerside, PEI, Yellowknife, NT, Churchill, MB, Baker Lake, NU, and Sault Ste. Marie, ON. Since 1995 she has been entrenched in the book publishing industry writing middle grade and young adult novels, articles and reviews, and leading workshops and presentations. Her latest middle grade novel has been sold to a book club publisher in Norway, and will be published in six languages. She has worked on occasion as marketing director, editor, and radio broadcaster, and is currently associate teen book editor at Great Plains Publications. When she's not working with books, she enjoys playing her guitar and riding her horse. Anita divides her time between Winnipeg, MB, and a small Francophone community in Manitoba's cottage country.
 Charlene Diehl is a Winnipeg writer, editor, performer, and director of THIN AIR, Winnipeg's annual literary festival. Her memoir, Out of Grief, Singing (Signature Editions, 2010), has been nominated for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Non-Fiction Award and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year.
 David Lawrence has been a book addict since before he can remember, and a bookseller since 1998. Since then he has worked several positions for McNally Robinson Booksellers, and currently manages their Grant Park location. Over the years he has worked in many areas of book retail, including promotions and publicity, events, frontlist buying, opening new stores, and section management.
 Donovan Bergman: A born & raised Altona boy, Donovan has worked for Friesens since he graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2002. He has been a sales representative for 6 years and enjoys looking after customers in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the northern Canadian territories. When not at work Donovan enjoys spending time with his wife Andrea and young son Luke… while also participating in various summer and winter sports. In recent years Donovan has also come to enjoy bird watching and fishing.
 Jamis Paulson is the Associate Publisher of Turnstone Press, one of Western Canada's most esteemed literary Publishers. He has worked in the writing and publishing industry for nearly two decades first in production, then as writer advocate, and now as publisher. Publishing is at an interesting time in its history and Jamis is excited to be part of it.
 Jenny Gates is a freelance editor who has red-penned 15 books in various genres, three newsletters, and corporate documents in Canada and Australia. As a book editor, she works closely with self-publishing authors, managing the process from manuscript to shelf and beyond! Jenny is the long-time editor for The Southern Yarn (the newsletter for the Down Under Club of Winnipeg), and primary editor for several organizations in Winnipeg. She is also the co-author of four scientific catalogues, a professional speaker, and hoping to publish her first book this year. Jenny loves words in all their guises and incantations!
 Karen Emilson spent the first 14 years of her life making up stories and writing poetry. In 1993 she started writing professionally as a reporter with Interlake Publishing and as a freelance writer, contributing many articles to numerous publications over the years. She is a former print shop owner and the founder of the industry publication, Cattle Country, and recently resigned as its editor. She has also authored and self-published three non-fiction books, including “Where Children Run,” one of Manitoba’s most commercially successful self-published titles.
Originally from Ontario, Karen lived on a cattle ranch along the shores of Lake Manitoba for 25 years and now resides in Winnipeg. She hopes to spend the second half of her life making up even better stories while writing less self-absorbed poetry. She replaces Michael Van Rooy as the new Programming Coordinator with the Writers’ Collective.
 Karen San Filippo has been the projects coordinator for the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers since 2005. She is the coordinator of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival's French programming and the volunteer coordinator for the Festival du Voyageur. Karen has also worked for On the Same Page, coordinated volunteers for Shakespeare in the Ruins and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, and has volunteered for Le Cercle Molière and many fundraising bingos.
 Michelle Peters graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) degree. A former bookseller and book events coordinator, she has served as chair of the Manitoba Editors' Association and as treasurer for the poetry journal CV2. She is presently the executive director of the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers.
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