BookShorts are three minute dramatized films, adapted from fiction or non-fiction, broadcast simultaneously through many outlets -- television and the Internet, in bookstores and theatres, at film festivals and live readings -- to coincide with a book’s publication. Each BookShort has additional behind-the-scenes features, which together with the film explore the terrain of the book, characters, author and filmmakers.

We believe any book can inspire a BookShort. The best time to submit a title is while the book is in manuscript stage. That way we can co-ordinate production of the BookShort at the same time as the book production, and have the BookShort ready for the book publication date. We are happy to discuss your book with your agent or publisher too!

Job Title: Writer

Project Code: SM-7024-MK

Location: Oakville, Ontario

Role Focus:
The main challenge of this position is to execute client projects in a manner that ensures achievement of client goals and objectives. The role includes writing for advertising, promotional, direct and web-based marketing projects.

The Company:
Our client is a dynamic young agency offering a full slate of integrated marketing solutions for their clients including advertising, promotional marketing, direct marketing, web-based/interactive campaigns and loyalty programs. The firm has a culture of high respect for both clients and employees and they aim to foster the talent of their team; the people who drive each and every project.

Primary Responsibilities:
- Create and deliver persuasive, results-oriented marketing communications materials
- Partner with art directors to execute on creative briefs
- Contribute to "big idea" development, rollout and client presentation
- Develop marketing concepts, simplify complex information and tailor messaging for specific audiences for both B2B and B2C marketing campaigns

Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 2-3 years of writing experience
- Some experience in writing for pharmaceutical clients would be an asset
- Strong conceptual thinker
- Strong command of English language, grammar and sentence structure
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple creative projects
- Highly client focused with a genuine desire to deliver high quality creative solutions to clients
- High energy, outgoing, professional attitude - enjoy working in a collaborative creative environment

For additional information about the role and our client, please contact:

Stefanie Cali
Executive Search Consultant
Madison MacArthur
Tel: (416) 920.0092 ext. 231
Fax: (416) 920.0099
Toll Free: 1-800-506-7797
stefanie@mmsearch.com
www.mmsearch.com

2008 - 2009 International Writers Project Fellowship

The Brown Graduate Program in Literary Arts and Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies are seeking applications and nominations for the 2008 - 2009 International Writers Project Fellowship.

The fellowship, which is sponsored by the William H. Donner Foundation, provides institutional, intellectual, artistic and social support to writers who face personal danger, oppression, and/or threats to their livelihood in nations throughout the world. Each academic year, the fellowship is granted to one writer who is unable to practice free expression in his or her homeland. Deeply practical in nature and intention, the academic-year fellowship covers the costs of relocation and the writer's living expenses in the U.S., and also provides an office on the campus of Brown University for ten months.

International Writers Project Director Robert Coover points out that, while the Literary Arts Program at Brown has been providing freedom-to-write fellowships since 1989 and has a long history of engagement in freedom of expression issues, "not in recent history has the basic principle of free expression been under such worldwide threat as right now, in 2007, making fellowships like this one a top priority for any writing program or university. Not only does the fellowship provide needed support and sanctuary to an individual writer, it also signals a commitment to the principle of freedom of expression and, through its association with cultural programs, seeks to heighten awareness of that principle's vulnerability and the need for international solidarity in its protection."

The 2007 - 2008 IWP Fellow is Zimbabwean novelist Chenjerai Hove. Previous IWP Fellows have included Iranian novelists Moniro Ravanipour, Shahryar Mandanipour, and Shahrnush Parsipur, and Congolese playwright and novelist Pierre Mumbere Mujomba.

The IWP Fellowship is open to established creative writers (fiction writers, poets, or playwrights) who are persecuted in their home countries or who are actively prevented from pursuing free expression in their literary art. Writers interested in applying for the fellowship should send a letter, providing publishing history and explaining need, a writing sample, and a resume, to the Graduate Program in Literary Arts, Box 1923, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, or they may email materials to iwp@brown.edu. Persons wishing to make the IWP aware of a writer in need, or wishing to nominate a candidate, should also contact the program as noted above. The IWP will be accepting applications until February 1, 2008. More information about the IWP is available on the Literary Arts Program website, www.brown.edu/cw (click on IWP).

Contact: Lori Baker (401) 863 - 3276