Author Sandra Phinney will be visiting the high school on Friday, March 23rd, for the day. She is coming through the Writers In The Schools (WITS) program of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, and we are very excited to have her come and speak to students in 5 different classes.
Here is a blurb about Ms. Phinney from her WITS profile:
"It's been said that Sandra Phinney can find a story in a stump. She's written hundreds of magazine articles, tons of scripts for videos and two books. One of the techniques she uses for both her fiction and non-fiction is a tool called "clustering". She loves to teach students how to cluster and from this, they come up with some amazing tales. The focus of her sessions is on finding the "story" and discovering how to give the story a pulse and make it jump off the page. For younger classes, she gets them to cluster verbally or by drawing pictures to tell their stories. If time permits, Sandra will read from her latest book, Pierre Elliott Trudeau: The Pranskter Who Never Flinched, and field a discussion about writing books."
Sandra Phinney's book Risk Takers and Innovators: Great Canadian Business Ventures since 1950 is available for loan at the PRHS library, and you can read some selected works (including articles) on her website.
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