We are please to announce that Joy Gugeler will be joining us as a panelist for The Symposium on the Book.
Joy Gugeler is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Orato.com, an international online magazine with the tagline “Speak from experience.” She has been in book, magazine and online publishing for 17 years as an in-house and freelance literary editor where she edited the memoirs My Father Came From Italy, Mamma Mia (anthology), Glenn Cochrane’s Toronto, and Cool to be Kind (Call to Arms US edition). She has also written profiles and conducted interviews for CBC, Bravo!, the Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen and Room, Quarry and ARC literary magazines. Gugeler has taught editing since 1998 at Ryerson and SFU, where she is completing a PhD in publishing.
The Symposium on the Book: From Memories to Memoir
They say we all have a story within us. Each life is a story, but usually not one offered up to public scrutiny. In this one-day symposium we will consider many examples of the memoir: from the collection of short pieces from Marion Farrant’s early years; the edge of crime from Sharon Butala; the socially aware memoir of Leilah Nadir; the assisted memoir from Jim Taylor; and the intensely private revelations of Philip Lee and Keith Maillard.