Suzanne Gardner

Below is just a small sample of my writing from over the past five years. My topic specialties include entertainment news and reviews (especially in the areas of books, music, and movies), lifestyle/culture articles, and profiles.

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Quill & Quire
International fall preview
(Quill & Quire, July/August 2009) [pdf]
Is literary translation a dying art?
(Quill & Quire, September 2009) [pdf]
The Carnivore book review
(Quill & Quire, September 2009) [pdf]
Tyranny book review
(Quill & Quire, September 2009) [pdf]
Guernica, OAC at odds over funding
(Q&Q Omni, August 14, 2009) [link] [pdf]
Litmag editors scramble for alternate funding
(Q&Q Omni, August 11, 2009) [link] [pdf]
Moritz, Wright win Griffins
(Q&Q Omni, June 5, 2009) [link] [pdf]
TDSB clarifies book-ban “miscommunication”
(Q&Q Omni, July 21, 2009) [link] [pdf]

Imprint
TNQ celebrates 100 issues
(Imprint, October 27, 2006) [link] [pdf]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book review
(Imprint, July 27, 2007) [link] [pdf]
Vagina Monologues slams into glass walls
(Imprint, February 9, 2007) [link] [pdf]
Ontario Community Newspapers Association Better Newspaper Award in Student News Writing, Honourable Mention, 2007

Sweetspot
Dough for it
(Sweetspot, December 29, 2009) [link]

i heart
Canada’s hit new show that you need to be watching: Being Erica
(i heart, February 2, 2009) [link] [pdf]
Bra “Secrets” revealed
(i heart, January 28, 2009) [link] [pdf]

Other creative ventures

In my spare time I maintain a blog devoted to the hit TV show Glee: Gleeks United. I also own a photoblog dedicated to the art of bathroom graffiti: Stall Wall Poetry.

I created a series of book club discussion questions for Chantel Simmons’ upcoming novel Love Struck, to be published by Key Porter Books in February 2010: Love Struck Book Club Discussion Questions.

I laid out and organized the content for Imprint’s special pull-out section for the Federation of Students Election 2007 as part of my duties as news editor at Imprint Publications: Federation of Students Election 2007 – Special Pull-out Section [pdf].

In my fourth year at the University of Waterloo, I completed a creative semiotic analysis of Apple’s “Get a Mac” advertising campaign for my Introduction to Semiotics course: Mac vs PC analysis [pdf].

Also in my fourth year at UW, I created a literary journal as my final project for my Contemporary Canadian Literature course: The Terpstra Review [pdf].