CRAIG SILVERMAN

Well, this has been a rewarding week. On Tuesday, for the second year in a row, I was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Then, yesterday, I discovered that my second book is nominated for Canada’s best non-fiction crime book. The CBC has a story about the Crime Writers of Canada’s annual Arthur Ellis Awards: Crime Writers of Canada, the …

I came home from my regular Tuesday night boxing class at Blue Cat to discover that I had been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Yeah, welcome home to me. This being 2009, I found out via Twitter thanks to a message from Kim Pittaway. (She’s nominated for three awards! I’m a total underachiever.) Here’s the full list of nominees. …

I recently discovered that one of the world’s leading experts in procrastination is based in Ottawa. His name is Dr. Timothy Pychyl and he runs the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University. I wrote an article about him for The Globe And Mail, and you can read it below. This story looks at some of Dr. Pychyl’s most recent research. …

I finally got my hands on a PDF of an article I wrote for Maisonneuve magazine last year. It’s a a personal story that recounts the dépanneur owners I’ve dealt with since moving to Montreal, and it’s one of my favorite pieces of work from the past year or so. You can download a PDF of the piece here, or …

PWAC Quebec is putting on two workshops for Montreal writers in March and April. I’m currently the Quebec Regional Director for PWAC and am a big supporter of the organization. These two workshops are free for PWAC members (join up!) and are also open to non-members. All the info is below. Email Giancarlo La Giorgia if you want to attend. …

Starting in March, I will be teaching an eight-week workshop about freelance writing. The course is presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation and costs $170 ($150 for QWF and PWAC members). All the details are below. You can reserve a spot by contacting the QWF office at 514-933-0878 or info@qwf.org. PITCH, PUBLISH AND GET PAID: HOW TO SUCCEED AS A …

If Regret the Error doesn’t satisfy your interest in media errors and corrections, you should read my new weekly column for Columbia Journalism Review Daily. It’s called — surprise — Regret the Error and runs every Friday on CJR.org. I’ve written eight columns so far, and you can read them all here. This column is a chance for me to …

I’ve been pretty quiet about my second book, but it’s time to start talking. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been working with Michael “Mafiaboy” Calce to write a book about his story. The resulting work is Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken. Here’s the book’s website, which was just launched. It will hit …

Contained in today’s Globe And Mail is the latest issuse of TQ, the paper’s quarterly technology magazine. I wrote the cover story about wireless security hacker Brad “RenderMan” Haines. He’s a talented white hat hacker based in Edmonton, and the profile raises a lot of important issues about wireless security. The full text is up on the Globe’s website, and …

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