Canada’s meeting place for freelance writers and creators

Established 2010

The Creative Freelancer Conference, sponsored by HOW magazine and Marketing Mentor, is happening in Chicago on June 23 and 24.

Conference attendees will get:

● expert advice on marketing and finances

● insight into the fine art of balancing your work and home life

● details on developing a viable business plan

● plus ample opportunity to network with other creative freelancers from around the world

Story Board readers can take advantage of a discount on the CFC full-conference rate*. Use the CTSB11 discount code during the registration process, and HOW will deduct $50 from your total registration.

For complete session descriptions, speaker info, and everything else you need to know about the Creative Freelancer Conference, including the registration form, visit the conference website.

* Discount cannot be combined with any other discount offers. Cannot be used in conjunction with The BIG Ticket registration option.

By guest contributor Karen Wirsig It used to be that the capitalists who owned newspapers took care of the money and hired fleets of journalists mostly focused on covering the news. Sure, there were conflicts in this scenario. Lots of them. But it was a generally workable model for reporting to a mass audience and making money.Now, not so much.…
What better way to mark May Day this year than with two classic silent films about labour struggles? At the Revue Cinema, Silent Toronto presents Sergei Eisenstein's Strike (1921),  to be preceded by Charlie Chaplin's short film Work (1915); both films will feature live piano accompaniment by William O'Meara.The event is part of the Revue Cinema's…
Last night, Toronto Standard went live, and a party held to fête the new Toronto-focused site, a "daily digital briefing on the life of the city," made no effort to hide the strong financial backing provided by founder and publisher Lee Polydor, investor and founder of Queen Street Capital Partners.An open bar, swanky hors d'oeurves, and cute,…
[caption id="attachment_662" align="alignnone" width="501" caption="Screengrab from Theglobeandmail.com."][/caption] Last night Massey College hosted the third Press Club Night, a series devoted to "celebrating Toronto's community of journalists."Well known Globe columnist and author Christie Blatchford sat down with the college's master,…
Why not check it out? The last Press Club event proved to be an interesting evening.
We hear that Star editor Michael Cooke made fun of the the Globe over its choice of chocolate over Egypt for an above-the-fold cover story last week - in the middle of the African country's revolution. Cooke was speaking at Toronto's Massey College. A little bird told us he said something like "If the Globe knows what it's doing, then I'm in…
Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke will be the guest at Massey College's Press Club Night on February 16. John Fraser, the Master of the college, which houses a few 19th century presses in the basement, will host the conversation based on Cooke's answer to his question of  "how many new journalists" the paper had to hire to "enliven" itself over…
The launch of the alliance between the Canadian Media Guild and the Canadian Writers Group will be celebrated on Tuesday December 7 at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. West, near Dufferin). The event starts at 6 pm. There will be a brief presentation and a chance to ask questions at 6:30 pm. Snacks and drinks will be served.Please RSVP…

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