Lois Peterson

Author ~ Creative Writing Instructor ~ Storyteller

News

October 26, 2009

~ MEETING MISS 405 is nominated for the 2010 OLA Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award.

July 15, 2009
~  My third children's novel tentatively entitled ELSIE AND THE SILVER RAIN is accepted for fall 2010 publication by Orca Book Publishers.

June 3, 2009

~ I launch the Surrey Writers' School to pick up where the Surrey Creative Writing Diploma Program left off when Surrey School Board cancelled it and other community programs.

May 13, 2009

~ MEETING MISS 405 is nominated for a 2009-2010 Chocolate Lily Award
 

April 3, 2009

~ My article on 'Showing not Telling' appears in the May issue of The Writer magazine.

~ In April and May I will present four workshops 'Writing For Results' for staff of the Fraser Valley Regional Library.

~ I will be presenting workshops and participating the Blue Pencil Cafe manuscript consultation sessions at the 2009 Surrey International Writers' Conference, October 23-25, Surrey, BC.

March 23, 2009

~ LPwordsolutions now accepts applications for the Take 5 Writer Mentorship program that starts Sept. 2009. Information and application forms here.

February 3, 2009
~  Heard today that my second children's novel, THE BALLAD OF KNUCKLES McGRAW  will be published in spring 2010 by Orca Book Publishers.

January 15, 2009

~  My website gets a facelift. I hope you like it.
~  My sideline, the Magic Carpet Storytelling Workshops program is now involved with Crescent Beach Community Services at Camp Alexandra's 'Bridging Generations' initiative - an inter-generational performance project, partially funded by the United Way.

~ There's still space in the February 7 one-day workshop Story, Plot & Theme. Details here.

~ I am one of seven presenters on the Getting Started in Children's Books panel,
     presented by CWILL BC on Monday, February 23. Details here.

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