Mark L. Winston is the recipient of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction for his book Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive, and an Independent Publishers 2019 Gold Medal “IPPY” Award for his book Listening to the Bees. One of the world’s leading experts on bees and pollination, Dr. Winston is also an internationally recognized researcher, teacher and writer. He directed Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue for 12 years, where he founded the Semester in Dialogue, a program that creates leadership development opportunities equipping and empowering students to address community issues.
As a consultant and thought leader, Dr. Winston partners with universities, corporations, NGOs, governments and communities to advance communication skills, engage public audiences with controversial issues through dialogue, and implement experiential learning and community engagement in educational institutions. As an award-winning writer and editor, he works with students, scientists, other professionals and writers to develop compelling non-fiction, from proposals and newspaper opinion pieces to manuscripts and books.
He currently is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow in Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and was the SFU Library’s inaugural Nonfiction Writer in Residence (2020-2021).
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I’ll be offering a one-day writing workshop 4 November in Vancouver through SFU Continuing Studies, “Personalizing the Impersonal,” focused on bringing a bit of yourself into nonfiction writing about topics of public interest. It will be hands-on, and an opportunity to work on whatever writing you have going at the moment: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/personalizing-the-impersonal-tickets-728959867587?_gl=11d8rne9_gaMTE4NTI3ODg5Mi4xNjc1Mzg0NjIy_ga_R4BCVYL1QF*MTY5Njc5NjQ5NC4zNzcuMS4xNjk2Nzk3MjU4LjUzLjAuMA..
Article in 26 August 2022 Tyee about the primary care crisis in British Columbia: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/08/26/Breaking-Primary-Care-Logja
New opinion piece in the Tyee: My Doctor Dumped Me
Excited to be a mentor for my fourth year in Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, an in-depth program that pairs writers with a professional author to develop their manuscripts to their fullest potential. Applications now being accepted