12:00 PM MT – 1:00 PM MT
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We live in a digital world, where so much of the information we garner comes from a website, an Instagram post, or a TikTok reel. As writers, we are consistently forced to ask ourselves how integral an online presence is and if it affects the relationship we have with our readers. Can we still be successful if we prefer to avoid engaging with an online audience? Is it crucial to promote our work virtually, from a marketing perspective? What are the alternatives? Join our panelists as they discuss the importance of social media when it comes to being a writer and what that relationship looks like going forward.
Rosey Hwang writes binge-worthy contemporary romance novels that are all heart yet unconventional, taking women deeper into the places within themselves that prevent them from living their own fairy tale. Her debut novel, Everything She Wanted, is now available for pre-order.
Off the page, she is a Story Acceleration Coach and Digital Marketing Expert helping authors finish their stories with flow and share their work with confidence.
Marina Endicott’s six acclaimed novels have been nominated for the Giller Prize, Canada Reads, the Governor General’s award, the Dublin IMPAC, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The Difference won the Edmonton Fiction Prize in 2020, and her latest, The Observer, was Saskatchewan Book of the Year in 2023. She teaches creative writing at U of A, and splits her time between Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio is an Filipina-Canadian author, speaker, and community worker. Her work with Filipino newcomer youth inspired her debut novel, Reuniting with Strangers. It was longlisted for Canada Reads, a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards and the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, named one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023, and won the Excellence in Arts and Culture Award at the Golden Balangay Awards and was a silver medallist for multicultural fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. As the founder of Filipino Talks, she builds bridges between Canadian educators and settlement workers and Filipino families. Her stories have been published in Geist, Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, and more. Jennilee is a tour guide in Toronto’s Little Manila and a founding member of Salaysay, a collective of over 80 Filipino writers in the Greater Toronto Area.
Jacqueline Baker is the author of the short story collection, A Hard Witching & Other Stories, and the novels, The Horseman’s Graves and The Broken Hours. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University.
