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Contact
c3n0byte@gmail.com

Website
cenobyte.ca

Audience Age Groups
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Adults
Secondary (Grades 10-12)
Middle (Grades 6-9)
Elementary (Grades K - 5)

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Jillian Bell

Jillian is a writer and freelance editor living in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan. She has been working in the publishing industry for more than 25 years. Jillian's writing has been published by the CBC, in "A Gift of the Prairie" (2014), in Prairie Dog, Planet S, and Amazing Stories Magazines, in print newspapers, and her blog content has been syndicated nationally and internationally. Her work has appeared in systems and modules for roleplaying games from video games to tabletop and Live Action. Jillian writes fiction, poetry, sci-fi/fantasy, horror, creative non-fiction, and erotica. She is actively involved in the roleplaying games and live action games community. For eleven years, Jillian hosted a radio programme, wherein she reviewed books, interviewed writers and other bibliophiles, and read classic books on air. As if that isn't enough, she's a knitter, a fledgeling quilter, a cookist, a swimmer, and a musician. Jillian has extensive experience with online content creation and social media.

Jillian is a dynamic public speaker : her recent presentations range from Pride/GSA workshops and topics to publishing workshops and seminars to storytelling and improv drama workshops and presentations. She has worked as a developmental editor on poetry, fiction (novels, novellas, flash fiction, genre work); non-fiction; gaming books and modules; and and has worked as a copyeditor and proofreader for all creative material as well as scholarly and academic manuscripts. Jillian has published a number of gaming-related materials. She is an engaging and empathetic creativity, writing, and book coach.

Workshops Offered

Collaborative Storytelling

Group Size: 5-30
Ages:
A workshop focussing on the improvisational nature of group storytelling, and collaborative writing. For older audiences, hands-on writing work; for younger audiences, group story telling. Some improv used in most workshops. Also, totally fun.

How to Storytell/Games Master a Roleplaying Game

Group Size: 5-30
Ages:
How to tell a story for roleplaying games (table top or live action). Best practices, hints and tricks, and what to do when the plot runs off with the characters and does an interpretive dance.

Publishing 101

Group Size: 5-50
Ages:
What publishers want, how to submit your work to a publisher, the language of Publishing, the business of Publishing, first steps in self publishing.

Publications

A Rope of Sand

Saskatchewan Arts Alliance Op-Ed Blog, 2015,

Editorials/Feature Articles

Prairie Dog Magazine, 2015,

OpEd Article

Wadena News, 2015,

A Gift of the Prairie

Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, 2014,

Feature Articles

Amazing Stories Magazine, 2013,

Aurelia

Freelance, 2008,

Feature Articles

New Waterfront Press, 2005,