Editors will read and assess the first pages of submissions from authors, offering commentary and options for each. Authors will see in real time how to make the most of those initial paragraphs that can either hook or lose the reader.
Hybrid events are held in person, you will also be able to watch it live streamed from our Youtube channel.
Location: Room C225, UBC Robson Square
Type: Panel
Sponsored by Editors BC
Moderator: Kyle Hawke
Panelists: Frances Peck, Robyn So, Stephanie C. Watterson
About The Moderator
Kyle Hawke is a poet, voice artist, and editor. Through his various interactions with words, he knows how they can change the world and wants to give them the platform to do so. whispers of humanity, Kyle’s first collection of poetry in book form, juxtaposed with the art of Wade Edwards, was launched at the start of the pandemic. He claims no causal relationship. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
About The Panelists
For 30 years Frances Peck, CPE (Hon.), was an editor, ghostwriter, and educator and an active member of Editors Canada. Recently she returned her first love, writing fiction. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, about a major earthquake rocking Vancouver, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second novel, Uncontrolled Flight, about the death of a firefighting pilot, hit the shelves on September 1.
ROBYN SO, an Editors Canada-certified structural and stylistic editor, is still in awe that she gets to work with writers and publishers on their fiction and non-fiction manuscripts. What a privilege! When she's not leaning over the pages of a style guide, she may be found leaning over the handlebars of her bike, enjoying the Lower Mainland's fabulous cycling infrastructure, or crouching over a campfire with Girl Guides, inviting girls and women to challenge themselves and be empowered.
Tiny but mighty! A ravenous reader, witty writer and energetic editor is all of the above and simply known as Stephanie. Early editing stages of her career date back to collecting swear words on the playground and correcting fellow kindergarteners on how to read Dr. Seuss. She is currently accepting freelance projects that help others tell their tales, and is happy to share her publishing and editing education.
