Panelists include:

Chris Wood, a former Maclean's editor and correspondent, has written for many publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, and The Walrus. He won two Gold National Magazine Awards for his work on water and one of his most recent books, Dry Spring, The Coming Water Crisis of North America, followed up on work that he did in 2006 as one of the first winners of a Tyee Fellowship Fund for Investigative and Solutions-oriented Reporting.

Erin Millar is a journalist, editor, author and photographer who lives in Vancouver. She was a founding editor of Maclean's On Campus and recently co-authored with husband Ben Coli The Canadian Campus Companion: Everything a student needs to know about going to college and university in Canada. Millar has written for Reader's Digest, BC Business, The Walrus and others.

Vanessa Richmond, a former high school English teacher (and Tyee managing editor), writes about pop culture, beauty, sex, celebrity and gender for online, print and broadcast. Richmond penned the Schlock and Awe column on The Tyee and now regularly appears on CKNW's Week in Pop Culture and Global TV's Morning News.

Claudia Kwan is a journalist who covers hard news, dining, design and travel for outlets like Global BC, The Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio, as well as various food and beverage publications. She blogs about her adventures -- which most recently include judging a cooking competition -- as a "polymediathlete" here.

Sponsored by:

Canadian Freelance Union (CEP 2040) Professional Writer's Association of Canada UBC Graduate School of Journalism