The Art of Editing ~ Beth Powning & Craig Pyette
August 9, 2018
Join us at AX as we welcome Craig Pyette to discuss his work as an editor at one of Canada’s biggest publishers. Craig will be joined by local author Beth Powning to give us unique insights into the editing process from both sides. The two will talk about the editorial exchange and the working relationship between author and editor.
Question and answer period to follow. This event is free of charge and open to all!
About Craig Pyette
Craig Pyette is a senior editor at Knopf Canada. His books have won or been finalists for numerous literary awards in Canada and internationally, including six Governor General’s Literary Award nominations. Craig has ghostwritten memoirs, climbed a mountain with a retired NHL enforcer and driven a wrestler around Western Canada at the end of his life, all to help great stories turn into great books, six of them number-one bestsellers. Craig lives and works in Toronto.
About Beth Powning
Beth Powning lives in New Brunswick, Canada. Her latest bestselling novel, A Measure of Light, was called by the Globe and Mail “shatteringly exquisite…extraordinary…visceral and intense.”
Beth is the author of three novels and three books of literary non-fiction, as well as articles, essays and blog posts. A full-time writer, she teaches workshops, visits schools, sings in two choruses, serves on boards and committees, gardens, photographs, and has chickens and ponies.
Beth is currently working on a new novel.