Cheryl Mahaffy launched the freelance business Words that Sing in 1996 with the goal of writing about things that matter. You’ll find her work in magazines, books and organizational stories and white papers. Holding an MA in journalism from Indiana University, Cheryl also writes for a broad range of clients on topics ranging from social justice to healthy living, sustainable design, community development and heritage. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Freelance Writer & Editor 1991 – Present Canadian Author Association - earned Lifetime Member status based on publications and experience 1998 Romance Author January 2011 - present Communications Consultant Manulife April 2013 - present
I have 30 years in print news, 15 as a college instructor. I've run websites and written on everything from dinosaurs to bagpipes.
• Supported the foundation’s services, such as research, media coverage, and analysis. • Updated the content, news, events and content of the foundation website, editing the new documents and research papers and maintained the foundation’s presence on all social media platform. • Wrote updated stories covering the top important stories and news in the world. • Provided reports and research support to other departments when needed. • Supported the production of webinars and publications. • Supported in administration work, assisted in writing speeches, preparing for conferences and meetings. • Created and edited the website content tailored for international businesses. • Published analysis and papers using WordPress. • Established and maintained business relationships with political counterparts, and internal and external committees to facilitate research and benchmark best practices and trends. • Participated in work plan reviews to facilitate resource capacity planning process, as required. • Assisting in the development of and updates to project charters, presentations, spreadsheets and other material as required. • Scheduled, coordinated and participated in meetings and events, collected and distributed relevant materials, took detailed meeting minutes and highlighted and followed up on action items. • Assisted in the preparation of clear and effective communications to project teams and stakeholders with respect to related changes and implementations
Since Incorporating in 1993, Mike Makwich has maintained the importance of strategic alliance and therein, he has leveraged his vast branding, business, and human capital development experience to mentor those desiring personal and professional growth. Mike’s strength as an executive business coach and personal brand mentor comes from the belief that if you grow great people, you’ll grow great brands. His fanatical ideation has allowed for the development of a strong following and his nomination by the Bank of Montreal as Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year. Almost twenty years after Mike’s foray into Entrepreneurship, the concept of incubating stand alone entity “You in View” inside the Mike Makwich Management Inc. group of companies had started to take shape. Since the birth of “You in View”’, LinkedIn Makeover and LinkedIn Profile Copywriting has become Mike’s personal passion and as a boutique consultancy he remains the sole person of accountability within each executive engagement. As a Professional Business Writer, Mike Makwich’s credits include: ► LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Makeovers, LinkedIn SEO Optimization, LinkedIn Company Page Design ► Business Development & Sales Copywriting ► Website Creative, Website Content, Website Copywriting, Sales Brochures, Sales Call Scripting ► Personal & Professional Brand Copywriting: Entrepreneurs, Legal, Medical, Real Estate ► Technical Content Writing: Operations Manuals, Training Manuals, Health & Safety Manuals Mike’s proven ability to scale companies and turn around under-performers as a seasoned General Manager has created engagements with well recognized companies such as Pioneer Energy, Petro Canada, Imperial Oil and Two Men and a Truck. Additionally, Mike was seconded to act as the Brand Launch Manager for O2E’s You Move Me and his most current engagement was scaling Wilcox Door Service Inc. and Richards-Wilcox Custom Systems and Cranes. Mike Makwich is an member of the Professional Writer’s Association of Canada, a LinkedIn Makeover Specialist and, he can be your LinkedIn Profile Copywriter and Personal Brand Coach. As the President of Mike Makwich Management Inc. and You in View, his enthusiasm for personal and professional development is contagious and his 30 plus years experience in leading Sales, Marketing, Operations and Human Capital procurement provides a significant advantage to those that choose to partner with him! Contact Information: Mike Makwich, President You in View – in Demand Starts Here Creative | Content | Copywriting Toll Free: (833) IN FOCUS After Hours: 905-601-6711 Email: mikemakwich@youinview.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikemakwich
20 years teaching 20 different writing and communications courses at Toronto community colleges 4 years experience running and teaching at Toronto's first Job Find club for adults with disabilities 11 years experience- full time freelancing writing articles, newsletter articles,
Start as a News Reporter 1995 -2005 ( srilanka main stream Media) Canada 2005 Tamilone TV. 2007 to upto now freelance journalist
Skilled at drawing stories and ideas out of people, lovingly manipulating the English language, and thinking creatively, Jaime is a fierce wordsmith. Jaime writes: Books Websites Blog posts Email campaigns Brand voice documents Jaime has written more than twenty books, including her own series of novels for children (The Legend of Rhyme Series), which are published by Toronto-based Blue Moon Publishers.
Stories. They are the most effective and authentic way of connecting with your customers. Give them engaging and detailed articles, case studies, guides, blog posts (and more!) that answer all their questions. Well-written stories convince your customers that you are a leader in your industry.
In 2020 I stared shooting wildfires that were breaking out in British Columbia. The devastation from these fires and the human impacts were profound. I trained my camera to capturing these fires in an effort to share the ferocity with others. This passion continued into 2021 with the Sparks lake fire and other mega fires that devastated the southern interior of the province. Throughout July and August 2021 I was documenting these fire and the fire fighting effort as best I could while adhering to the restriction put in place by BC Wildfire Service. I was able to provide still images, video and timelapse to tell the story of our drying and warming climate in the interior forests of the province. This has become a passion for me and I want to further my skills and qualifications to continue to tell the story through images I shoot. My work has been collected by art collectors, licensed by production companies for documentaries, used in aurora research and licensed by media on breaking stories.
Magazine publishing (PUBLISHER and CO-FOUNDER, HAMILTON CITY Magazine; retired) Magazine writing, editing, speechwriting, corporate communications, research and policy development and reports, annual reports, interviewing, focus groups, surveys, teaching (university and college), marketing and communications planning, strategic planning, facilitation — details at: ca.linkedin.com/in/jeffreycmartin
Gwen has been a writer and editor since Justin Trudeau was a babe in arms. Long ago, she published poems, short stories, and three history books: "Once Upon a Mine," "For Love of Stone," and "Gesner's Dream." Never heard of them? You’re not alone. After realizing that book royalties would never pay the rent, Gwen began a thirty-year career that saw her authoring or editing tedious scientific tomes, lively political speeches, boring government reports, and million-dollar grant proposals for engineering clients across Canada. Now semi-retired, she publishes creative nonfiction in literary magazines for fun. She's pondering a nonfiction book, "The Solace of Stone,"© to explore how rocks embody our collective yearning for the numinous. She's also working on a crime series under the banner of MoonStone Mysteries.
contributor to Elle Canada, enRoute, The Globe and Mail Editor & contributor: C international contemporary art, Fireweed, Fuse magazine and Professionally Speaking/Pour parler profession (publication of OCT) writer/editor for museums, galleries, businesses and corporations
My background in freelance writing extends to more than 30 years of experience. I have been employed as a reporter for a number of newspapers, largely weeklies, contributing a wide array of stories and articles reflecting all aspects of local community. I completed a certificate in Sustainability Management at University of British Columbia in 2015, and write about climate change and environmental issues. I have worked for a nonprofit arts organization for more than 10 years, generating press releases promoting all genres of the arts, and providing copy for the web, social media and print publications. I am a highly successful grant writer. I am an excellent graphic designer, and have designed, launched and managed numerous websites.
Timber Masterson (me) is a writer, who identifies as a participatory journalist, raconteur, reporter and author; also, as a straight white male, lover of the written and spoken word, noble gentleman and spiritual citizen of the world. I was co-producer and host of a monthly interactive gathering called Word Substance Spatula at Toronto’s Drake Hotel, featuring unique, established writers from Canada and the U.S, including the McSweeney’s crew, in a kind of theatre-in-the-round for writers; featuring classy blues guitar provided by Big Rude Jake and the work of various photographers showcased from the Dionysian downtown urban sprawl. I’ve reported on elections, fashion, farm animals, film festivals and celebrity and have contributed my imaginative and heartfelt essays to periodicals and online literary journals Fresh Yarn Salon, Akashik Books, Purple Prose, 3AM Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast and other sites that no longer exist, so you’ll just have to trust those essays were posted and enjoyed by prominent intelligentsia and global literati as well as the common man. I’ve interviewed authors, actors, musicians (and farm animals) from across the globe and my writing has appeared in The National Post, The Montreal Gazette, Now Magazine, Pie Magazine, OC Metro, and have also had monthly columns in Flare Magazine and Tribe Magazine. I’ve also been a regular contributor to CIUT's 89.5 FM talk radio show, HOWL, with Nik Beat and seem to recall having appeared at the 215 Festival in Philadelphia and The Moth in New York City to share my stories with other humans. I published an epic memoir, (who hasn’t?) entitled, TIMFOOLERY: TALES OF A THIRD RATE JUNKIE, which received rave reviews, mostly from me. These days I report from my headquarters, my literary lair, just north of Toronto, Canada, though have lived in Los Angeles and New York City and was lucky to have survived both. Have been awarded Toronto and Ontario Arts Council Grants towards completing creative non-fiction memoir-style novels, “A Long Way from Kind and Pretty,” “Paying Rent in the Tower of Courage” and “Timfoolery: Tales of a Third Rate Junkie” which I was tremendously grateful for. The next clump of pages for mass consumption is a mix of published essays and new stories I’m compiling, entitled, ‘A Bizarre but Entertaining Life I Seem to Have Survived: True Tales from The Dementia Cul De Sac.’ I may be coming soon to a town near you to share my words, but more than likely just to scribble notes into dog-eared Mead notebooks, ingest copious amounts of overpriced, frothy caffeine beverages, and maybe play some tennis. Tim usually publishes and promotes himself under the playful moniker of “Timber” Masterson. That moniker was well chosen, since his various musings, observations and confessions have always merited the cry that something major is hurtling forward. In a forest full of writers searching for their original voice, Tim has confidently found his.
Experience supporting projects in roles as a communicator, coordinator and executive assistant. Those skills and education supported a move to filmmaking as a writer/producer/director. A creative writer and colloborator.
I'm a freelance writer based in Montreal, Quebec. My work has been published in Today's Parent, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Living, Leafly,ca, and Via the Blog (Via Rail's online publication). I recently co-wrote a film for the National Film Board of Canada called Freaks of Nuture, which is a 6-minute animated short. I've done web copy and freelance work for clients such as The National Bank, McGill University, and The NFB. I am also a regular contributor to the National Film Board's blog.
Creative writing publications (bibliography available). Business writing teacher (17 years) Editing experience (booklets, TV captions) Submissions reader (literary magazine)
