{"id":2943,"date":"2023-10-30T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:40:04","slug":"breakfast-meeting-sept-21-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-sept-21-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting Sept 21, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deb Loughead, a Toronto author, poet and workshop leader, started writing as soon as she learned how to read. She has published more than 40 books for children and young adults. In 1977 she completed her B.A. in English at U of T, then worked as a copy editor until she decided to stay home to raise her three sons, and try to squeeze in a little creative writing on the side.<\/p>\n

From 1980 \u2013 1995 she was an associate editor for Spires Magazine in Etobicoke, writing short stories, poetry, puzzles and articles for the children\u2019s pages. And once upon a time when her sons were in elementary school, she wrote and directed children\u2019s plays for the drama club. One was eventually produced by an elementary school in Sudbury. Deb also had an opportunity to coach a group of drama students in Happy Valley \/ Goose Bay, Labrador. During the 1990s before her first book of poems, All I Need, was published, she worked as a storyteller, visiting schools around the Toronto area with her Circletime Tales.<\/p>\n

Having written extensively for the educational market over the years, her rhyming stories and plays, as well as middle grade novels, are used in classrooms across North America, as well as the UK and Australia. Many of Deb\u2019s novels written for a European book club, have been translated into seven languages.<\/p>\n

Deb has conducted workshops and held readings for children and adults at schools, festival and conferences across the country, such as the Montreal Young Authors Conference, the Labrador Creative Arts Festival, Sudbury\u2019s Rainbow Schools Authors Week, Eastern Townships Language Arts Festival, the POW Poetry Festival in Coburg, the Eden Mills Writers Festival, and the Young Adult Stratford Writers Festival. She has also taught creative writing classes for adults in Toronto. Her award-winning adult fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of Canadian publications. Deb is a Past President of CANSCAIP, the Canadian Society for Children\u2019s Authors, Illustrators and Performers.<\/p>\n

Deb doesn\u2019t write as much now\u2014her brain is tired! But never say never!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deb Loughead, a Toronto author, poet and workshop leader, started writing as soon as she learned how to read. She has published more than 40 books for children and young adults. In 1977 she completed her B.A. in English at U of T, then worked as a copy editor until she decided to stay home … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting Sept 21, 2024<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-Lt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}