Welcome to the directory of PWAC Quebec Members!
Discover the work of our chapter members by visiting their websites. If you’re a member and would like your site added, send us the pertinent details here.
Tracey Arial
E-mail: writer@traceyarial.com
Telephone: 514-766-2125
Website(s): www.traceyarial.com
Description: Writer, author, PR and communications specialist for 23 years. Clients include Air Canada, the Canadian Tourism Commission, Jobboom, the National Convenience Stores Distributors Association, Nortel Networks and St. John Ambulance. She is a former president of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.
Expertise: business, communications, culture, family, ecology, history, politics and travel.
Diana Bouchard
Telephone: 514 362 0177
E-mail: dianab@aei.ca
Website(s): tinyurl.com/dbouchard-linkedin
Expertise: Scientific and technical writing, editing, and translation services in the following fields: pulp and paper, mathematics and statistics, computer science, physical sciences and engineering, earth sciences, energy and environmental topics.
Brian Dunn
E-mail: brian@dunnwrite.ca
Telephone: 514-889-3135
Website(s): www.brianhdunn.com
Description: Over 25 years writing experience for newspapers, magazines and press releases, specializing in mining and metals, aerospace, advertising, textile and clothing, footwear and food retailing.
Heather Grace Stewart
E-mail: writer@hgrace.com
Website(s): www.hgrace.com, www.hgstewart.wordpress.com
Description: Book author, screenwriter, editor, award-winning poet and photographer.
Expertise: Canadian wildlife, parenting, children’s and youth fiction and non-fiction, poetry for textbooks.
Sarah Grant
Email: sarahpaulinegrant@gmail.com
Telephone: 514.436.5100
Website: www.sarahpgrant.com
Description: Corporate freelance writer with a background in PR, communications and journalism. Previously worked in a fast-paced agency environment, where she produced a variety of content for clients such as Microsoft and TELUS. Works with clients from a variety of sectors, including technology, food service and entertainment.
Expertise: Case studies, blogs, press releases, Web content, opinion pieces, PR consulting.
Jenn Hardy
E-mail: jenn.hardy@gmail.com
Telephone: 514 3184.4566
Website(s): www.jennhardy.com, www.porkpiejazz.com, LinkedIn
Expertise: Writing, editing, proofreading, environment, politics, arts&entertainment (especially jazz).
Wendy Helfenbaum
E-mail: wendy@taketwoproductions.ca
Telephone: 514-369-8963
Website(s): www.taketwoproductions.ca
Description: Writer, television producer and translator with 20 years of experience, published in dozens of regional, national and international publications.
Expertise: Parenting, media, art, health/wellness, sports, architecture/design, corporate/marketing writing.
Kathlyn Horibe
E-mail: khoribe@videotron.ca
Telephone: 514-697-8654
Website(s): tinyurl.com/khoribe
Description: Corporate and marketing communications writer, editor, consultant
Expertise: Business, transportation, trade, technology, medicine and health, environment; external and internal communications strategies
Ian Howarth
E-mail: teaching1@sympatico.ca
Telephone: 514-697-9762, 514-827-9762 (cell)
Website(s): www.writers.ca
Description: Former educator turned journalist for the past 8 years working mostly in the newspaper business with some magazine work experience. Covering local news scene for weekly English language dailies as well as special section work for The Montreal Gazette. Multi-tasking journalist who has covered any number of news stories and profiles along with a variety of Home Decor, Home Reno, Outdoor Living and special interest pieces.
Olivia Kona
E-mail: oliviamkm@aol.com
Website(s): http://ca.linkedin.com/in/oliviakona
Description: Marketing communications consultant, writer and educator specializing in copywriting, promotion, public relations and web content development and design; project coordinator who successfully envisions a concept and brings it to fruition
Expertise: Excels in creative, concise writing; clean, crisp design; and excellent client relations in the education, music, food, fashion and marketing communications fields.
Eve Krakow
E-mail: eve.krakow@gmail.com
Website: www.scribere.ca
Description: Writer, French to English translator, editor. Over 20 years writing and 15 years translating. Experience in a wide range of fields: business, marketing, personal finance, education, early childhood development, parenting, the environment, arts and culture. Please visit website for full profile and portfolio.
Nathalie Laberge
E-mail: nathaliemth@aim.com
Telephone: 450 735-3895
Website(s): tinyurl.com/nlaberge
Description: features and profiles writer, proofreader, translator, providing services to para-governmental, IT sectors and the horse industry.
Expertise: technology, coommunications, agriculture, horses.
Giancarlo La Giorgia
E-mail: giancarlo@letteratimedia.com
Telephone: 514-341-2949
Website(s): www.letteratimedia.com
Description: Award-winning writer, bestselling book author, editor, proofreader, translator, photographer and videographer, providing custom content solutions to media, marketing and communications clients in Canada, the US and abroad.
Expertise: Architecture, arts, culture, design, environment, food, health, medicine, technology, travel, wellness.
Patrick McDonagh
Email: patmc@cooptel.qc.ca
Telephone: 514-575-9167
Website(s): www.McDonaghCommunications.com, www.patrickmcdonagh.net
Description: Award-winning writer and editor, specializing in making the complex understandable.
Expertise: Clear, accessible writing about science and technology, as well as travel, history, arts and culture.
Alex Roslin
E-mail: aroslin1@yahoo.ca
Telephone: 450-242-1517
Website(s): www.albloggedup.com, www.cotstimer.blogspot.com, www.bestoftheeasterntownships.blogspot.com
Description: Award-winning journalist and writer, vice-president of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, investigative reporter and researcher, translator and linguistic reviewer, editor, market analyst and active trader.
Expertise: Investigative research, health, the environment, justice, scuba diving.
Nathalie Ross
E-mail: info@nathalieross.com
Telephone: 514 912 0026
Website(s): www.nathalieross.com, LinkedIn; https://twitter.com/#!/NathalieRoss1
Description: Former research scientist, freelance writer since 1997, fully bilingual, hands-on experience in the public and private sectors, effective and flexible project manager, expertise in the pharmaceutical industry, environment, and food/nutrition.
Expertise: Scientific writing: grant proposals, research papers, book chapters; Regulatory writing: investigator’s brochures, product monographs, clinical trial applications, new drug submissions, new substances notifications, requests for orphan drug designation; Conference coverage: abstracts, slide presentations, posters, proceedings; Journalistic writing: articles for trade magazines.
Sarah Sookman
E-mail: sarah@neuronwriting.com
Telephone: 514-792-8674
Website(s): www.neuronwriting.com, LinkedIn, tinyurl.com/ssookman
Description: Former Media Relations Specialist at Matrox Imaging in Montreal, specializes in marketing and technical communications for the high-tech sector. Over 10 years experience writing technical manuals, training materials, newsletters, technical articles, and press releases.
Expertise: Machine vision, industrial automation, image processing, software.
Marijke Vroomen-Durning
E-mail: marijke@medhealthwriter.com
Telephone: 514-295-4491
Website(s): www.medhealthwriter.com, medhealthwriter.blogspot.com, www.montrealonthecheap.com
Description: A registered nurse, Marijke is an experienced print and Internet health and medical writer, web site editor and publisher, and blogging network co-founder, hired by clients around the world.
Expertise: Health, medicine, death and palliative care, social issues, seniors, quilting, pets, local Montreal events.
