{"id":10153,"date":"2025-10-30T22:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:09:16","slug":"writing-from-the-shadows-canscaip-pyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/writing-from-the-shadows-canscaip-pyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing from the Shadows\/CANSCAIP PYI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was an honour and an angst to be asked to give the final keynote at this year’s Packaging Your Imagination Conference. I attended my first PYI way back in 1993 and it inspired and focused me to such an extent that I was able to revise and submit several children’s book manuscripts I had on the go, and within months, I had a yes for my first picture book, Silver Threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final keynote is a memorial lecture, honouring Claire Mackay, who was a founding member of CANSCAIP, a force to be reckoned with (in a very good way) — and she was funny, brilliant and kind. The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundation sponsors this award. Here’s a pic with Elly Daniels, a woman who does tremendous things in support of arts in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My talk was very well received. The audience gave me a standing ovation. Many hugs and tears followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I sat in on fantastic and inspiring speakers all day long, which probably wasn’t the best way to prepare for doing a keynote, but heck, how could I not? It was a stellar lineup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jean E. Pendziwol gave a moving opening speech.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caroline Pignat’s extremely useful tips on creating character.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Julien Chung brought his graphic design and illustration techniques together in this fascinating talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mary Beth Leatherdale gave a useful and insightful talk on research for kids’ nonfiction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lorna Schultz Nicholson giving a stellar presentation on writing action scenes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I grabbed some screenshots taken by friends and posted on social media (must learn to speak without flailing my arms around!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was an honour and an angst to be asked to give the final keynote at this year’s Packaging Your Imagination Conference. I attended my first PYI way back in 1993 and it inspired and focused me to such an extent that I was able to revise and submit several children’s book manuscripts I had … Continue reading “Writing from the Shadows\/CANSCAIP PYI”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[966,991,986,994,990,989,988,987,984,985],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-canscaip","tag-caroline-pignat","tag-claire-mackay","tag-jean-e-pendziwol","tag-julien-chung","tag-lorna-schultz-nicholson","tag-mary-beth-leatherdale","tag-peter-and-eleanor-daniels-foundation","tag-pyi2025","tag-writing-from-the-shadows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10179,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}