Valerie Bean has a Professional Writing Certificate from Centennial College and a Technical Writing Certificate from Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

A seasoned technical writer, Valerie also enjoys writing features, profiles, and general-interest articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers. She contributes content to a variety of online publications and blogged for three years for Metroland Media Group Ltd., a TorStar Digital property.

Valerie currently edits articles for Minor.Hockey.Life., an online resource of informative articles for minor hockey parents, to which she also contributes.

Print

Newspapers, Magazines, Periodicals

• ArtsForum‡
• Bread ’n Molasses‡
• Byline
• Canadian Stories
• Canadian Writers’ Journal
• Contact
• Durham Parent
• Habitat for Humanity Canada
• Mississippi Crow‡
• Outreach Connection‡
• Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
• Poemata‡
• The Authors‡
• TheatreBooks’ The Organizer/The Actor’s Organizer‡ (2000-2010)
• Word Weaver‡

Books, Anthologies

• Author of Total Life Chocolate, a collection of essays from A Creative Way Out of Work. Available on Scribd.
• Author of Seeking Representation: A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a Talent Agent in Canada. Available for purchase at Theatre Books.
• Contributing writer to Super Seniors: 65 and Fully Alive, “Retired Nurse Brings Aboriginal Stories to Light.”
• Contributing editor to Invisible Women WWII Aboriginal Servicewomen in Canada; by Grace Poulin.

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Online

Web Publications, Sites

• Actor’s Organizer
• Bread ’n Molasses
• Markham Village Writers
• Minor Hockey Life
• NYC Midnight
• The Glass Hammer
• Women Bloom

Visit Valerie's Portfolio page for direct links to articles on the Web sites listed above.

Digital Content, Weblogs

• Blog maven for Raiders Bantam "AAA" (96) Travel Blog for a Canadian minor hockey team's three-country, eight game European hockey tour, 2010-11
• Webmistress for Ajax-Pickering '96 AAA Raiders, 2009-12
• Blogger at "People, Places, and Things" for Durhamregion.com, 2007-10

To read some of Valerie's non-fiction work online, visit her blog Another Writing Project.

Professional Associations

• Editors and Writers Network (EWN)
• Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (NOWW)
• The Writers’ Circle of Durham Region (WCDR)

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