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Louise Abbott
Professional Member of PWAC

Telephone:

(819) 876-5914 

Fax:

 

Address:

515 Chemin Embury

City:

Ogden

Province:

QC

Postal Code:

J0B 3E3

Company:

E-Mail:

louiseabbott7@gmail.com

Web Site:

www.studiogeorgeville.com

Subjects:

History and Heritage, Books and Literature, Environment, Natural History, Photography, Rural Living, Travel and Tourism, Agriculture

Types of Writing:

Creative Non-Fiction, Historical Projects, Film/Video Directing, Book Reviews, Scriptwriting, Travel Writing, Documentaries

Publications:

The (Montreal) Gazette, The Coast Way, Harrowsmith Country Life, The French Shore, Heritage magazine, A Country So Wild and Grand, Plaisirs de Vivre, The Heart of the Farm

Other:

Books: The Coast Way (1988), The French Shore (1996), A Country So Wild and Grand(1999), The Heart of the Farm (2008) Text and/or photos in: The Women's Daybook (1992-2010), Montréal au XXe siècle (1995), Regards du Québec (1997), Hivers (2003). Film: Writer/Director: "In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The History of Nunavik"(1993); Writer/Director: "The Pinnacle and the Poet" (1995); Writer/Assistant Director: "Le Filet vide/The Empty Net" (1995); Writer/Director/Co-Producer: "Alexander Walbridge: The Visionary of Mystic" (2002); Writer/Director/Co-Producer: "Crisscrossing Space and Time: A History of Farm Fencing"(2009); Writer/Director/Co-Producer: "Giving Shelter: Historic Barns of the Eastern Townships" (2009).

PWAC Awards:

Achievements:

Canada Council B grant for creative non-fiction writing (1996). Grants (2003, 2007) from the Townshippers' Research & Cultural Foundation and (2003) from the Bélanger-Gardner Foundation Winner (2002) of PWAC's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism and of the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Greg Clark Internship Award. "Le Filet vide/The Empty Net" named Best Documentary (Science, Technology, and Environment) at Hot Docs! '96 in Toronto, Best Public Affairs Documentary at the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan (1996); also won the Gold Plaque at the Chicago TV Festival (1997) and a Gemini award in 1998.

Etc.:

"I prefer to work on in-depth feature stories for newspapers and magazines, as well as on books and video documentaries with a focus on rural life and environment. I am currently at work on a photo book about the Cree of James Bay. Eeyou Istchee, as it is titled, will be published in the late spring of 2010.

Other Memberships:

Quebec Writers Federation (QWF), The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC), English Language Arts Network (ELAN)


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