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Jennifer Cockrall King wins Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award
9/23/2011 12:56:04 PM
Edmonton author Jennifer Cockrall-King wins the Dave Greber Freelance Writer Book Award.
Jennifer Cockrall-King, an Edmonton Freelance writer and vice-chair of LitFest's board of directors, is the 2011 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award. Ms. Cockrall-King's submission was the ninth chapter of her first book, Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution. This 350-page book will be published by Prometheus Books in February 2012.
Ms. Cockrall-King will receive the $2,000 award at a ceremony at LitFest, to be held at CBC Centre Stage, noon on Friday, October 14th. Ms. Shirley Dunn, developer of the Dave Greber Awards, will be on hand to present the award.
The Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards, established to honour long-time freelance writer the late Dave Greber of Calgary, are unique in two ways: they provide support to working Canadian freelance writers when they need it most in their work cycle, and they give special regard to those working in the area of social justice. Excellence of writing and research are benchmarks of the awards.
Jennifer's book about food and social (food) justice grew out of a 2007 trip to Cuba to research alternative food systems and urban agriculture. As the project grew, she travelled to Paris, London, Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and New York. Urban agriculture projects in Calgary and Edmonton are also featured in the book. Her goal is to show that grassroots initiatives such as community gardens, urban farms, local food hubs and school gardens are having a profound transformative effect for the better on the cities in which we live.
Jennifer is a freelance food writer whose work has appeared in such publications as Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, the National Post, NUVO, Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, WestWorld, Chicago Sun-Times and CBC Radio. Jennifer has won a number of Western Canadian Magazine Awards. She teaches food and magazine writing at Grant MacEwan University, the University of Alberta's faculty of Extension, and the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna. She is the founder and producer of the Okanagan Food and Wine Writers Workshop. Her published work can be read online and her blog can be found at foodgirl.ca.
