I'll be joining SFU's Writer's Studio Alumni Clarissa P. Green and Sandra Pettman to offer free, on-site consultations on 2-3 pages of writers' work-in-progress at this year's The Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival on September 27. Bookings are available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (call 778-782-5093) at the Blue Pencil Café table, located at SFU's Writing and Publishing Program booth in the Village area of Vancouver's Library Square.

Clarissa P. Green won first prize for short fiction in the 2008 VIWF contest and her writing reflects her thirty-five years as a therapist and university teacher.

Sandra Pettman has taught creative writing at UBC's Science Creative Literary Symposia and her poems have been published in Room, Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, and The Malahat Review.