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PWAC Information
PWAC Writing Awards: 2010 Judges
Stephen Kimber, the author of one novel and seven books of non-fiction, is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. A former Director of the School of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, he holds the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at King's. He is currently at work on an update of Thomas Raddall's classic Warden of the North, to be published in 2010.
Elaine Kalman Naves, based in Montreal, is the author of six books and more than 500 articles and stories in a variety of Canadian and international periodicals and scholarly works. Elaine's honours include a Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay, two Quebec Writers' Federation prizes for non-fiction and two Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Literature. Her two-hour documentary about 19th-century Montreal photographer William Notman will air on CBC Ideas this spring.
Bilbo Poynter is executive director and founder of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting. As a researcher then associate producer with the CBC Investigative Unit, he contributed to two award-winning series and numerous reports on CBC Radio and CBC.ca. He was also the first Canadian to work for the Center for Investigative Reporting in California.
Maxine Ruvinsky is an associate professor and chair of the School of Journalism at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. She has been at Thompson Rivers since 1999, after two decades in Canadian print journalism (the last seven of those at The Canadian Press in Montreal, where she was born and raised). She holds a PhD in comparative literature from McGill University and is the author of Investigative Reporting in Canada and Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer's Resource.
Eric Siblin is the Montreal-based author of The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, which won the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Writer's Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Previously, he worked at The Canadian Press and The Montreal Gazette and directed two documentaries.
Jennifer Walker is senior content editor at Best Health magazine and the winner of PWAC's Best Editor Award in 2009. Jennifer previously worked as a senior editor with Zoomer magazine, its predecessor, CARP magazine, and Canadian Living magazine. She has also written about health, parenting, travel and finance for these and other magazines, including Today's Parent, Famous, Glow and Chatelaine.
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