The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #44 — Francesca Bianco
In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian freelancers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life. Francesca Bianco is a Canadian freelance writer currently living in Germany. Her Maisonneuve feature “The Hand That Feeds You,” which is about the impact of the pandemic on migrant farm workers […]
Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards aim to support social justice writing in Canada
Dave Greber could talk about writing for hours on end. The Calgary-based freelancer had an unquenchable enthusiasm for storytelling. “You could see him come alive discussing writing,” says Dave’s partner, Shirley Dunn. Twenty years after his death, Greber’s passion lives on in the form of awards for freelancers that Dunn created in his […]
2020 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards open for submissions
Freelancers, if you’ve written about social justice issues this year, it’s time to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book and Magazine Awards. The awards are now open for submissions and the competition closes on Friday June 26, 2020 at 5:00 P.M. PST. The awards honour the memory of Dave Greber, a […]
The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #42 — Nicholas Hune-Brown
In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian freelancers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life. Nicholas Hune-Brown is a Toronto-based magazine writer whose long-form journalism has been published in such outlets as Toronto Life, The Walrus, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail. His Toronto Life feature “No Fixed Address,” an […]
2019 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards open for submissions
Freelancers, if you’ve written about social justice issues this year, it’s time to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book and Magazine Awards. The awards are now open for submissions and the competition closes on Friday June 28, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. PST. The awards honour the memory of Dave Greber, a Calgary-based […]
The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #38 — Angela Mombourquette
In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian freelancers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life. Angela Mombourquette is a Halifax-based freelance journalist who has written for such publications as The Walrus, Halifax Magazine, and the Chronicle Herald. She is also the author of the […]
2018 Dave Greber Awards open for submissions
Freelance writers, if you’ve focused your work on social justice issues this year, it’s time to apply for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards. The competition opened this week and the submissions deadline is Friday, June 22 at 5 p.m. PST. The awards honour the memory of Dave Greber, a Calgary-based freelancer who wrote extensively about social […]
2017 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards open for submissions
After taking a break in 2016, the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards are back this year. Submissions for the 2017 awards opened this week. Created in 2004 in the memory of freelance writer Dave Greber, the awards are given to writers of social justice-related non-fiction. There are two awards — one for books and one for magazines. The book award […]
2015 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards Seeking Submissions
If you’ve written about social justice issues this year, you’re eligible to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards. There are two awards — one for books and one for magazines — both of which are given to freelance writers of non-fiction on social justice-related topics. Books and magazines that have not yet been […]
2014 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards
Submissions are open for this year’s Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards. The book and magazine awards have been given annually since 2004 for excellence in research and storytelling on subjects related to social justice. The book award is for $5000 and may be split into two awards of $2500 each if two books of equal merit […]
