A L U M N OT E S magazines across Atlantic Canada, including the Chronicle Herald, Our Children, and East Coast Living. Stuart Woods (BAH ’05) is editor of Quill & Quire magazine. He was responsible for selecting the 2012 shortlist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award winner. Prior to working as a print journalist, Stuart was an editor at the Montreal publishing house Price-Patterson. Sam Worthington (BJH ’05) has received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Warwick in England. Paul Brothers (BJ ’07) is one of three new co-hosts of The Morning News on Global Maritimes, which went live at the end of January.
Shannon Fay (BJH ’09) won the 2013 James White Award, a contest for new short story writers that is administered by the British Science Fiction Association. Her winning story is called “You First Meet the Devil at a Church Fete”. Ariel Nasr (BAH ’05) was nominated for an Academy Award in the best Live Action Short Film category for “Buzkashi Boys”. He also received a Canadian Screen Award for “The Boxing Girls of Kabul”.
Madeleine Goldsmith (FYP ’07) and Anna Mancini (BA’10) met playing rugby at King’s and are both currently studying at the University of Ottawa. They have also teamed up to fundraise for Plan’s “Because I am a Girl Campaign” by participating in an Iron-distance triathlon in Dartmouth in June. Jennifer Wilson (BJH ’07) has recently made a career change, joining the team at
Rogers, where she is the editor of the Red Board blog and also working with their social media properties. She previously worked in journalism, beginning her career at CBC news in Toronto, where she had interned as a student. After leaving CBC, she joined the Toronto Star as editor of the yourhome.ca website and took over Toronto.com in the autumn of 2011. Outside the March director Mitchell Cushman’s (BAH ’08) Toronto-based theatre company was one of three companies staging Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play” in June at Toronto’s Crow’s Theatre. King’s alumna Bryn McLeod (BAH ’12) assistant stage managed. Liam Hyland (BJH ’08) has spent the last year working at the Los Angeles bureau of CTV National News. He was recently nominated for a Canadian Society Cinematographers Award (CSC) for his in-depth coverage of Hurricane Isaac in New Orleans, Louisiana as well as the RTNDAs. He is also celebrating his third wedding anniversary to his wife Reagan Hyland. They are living in Los Angeles with their dog, London. Liam can be contacted at liamhyland2@gmail.com. Jill Mader (BJH ’08) joined the Halifax digital marketing agency VERB Interactive
Jonathan Robart (BAH ’05) graduated from Osgoode Law School in 2009 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2010. “After completing my articles at a downtown Toronto litigation firm, I chose to pursue a career in public-interest/poverty law,” he writes. “I’ve been very fortunate to work with several legal aid clinics across Toronto. I’m currently a lawyer with the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, which is a specialty legal aid clinic that works on law reform projects, test-case litigation, community organizing, and provides duty counsel services to Landlord and Tenant Board locations across Ontario. I find the work very challenging and even more rewarding.” Heather Sawers Clarke (BJH ’05) and her husband Michael welcomed their second child, Charlotte Rose, into their family on 25 April 2012. Two-year-old big brother Dexter is very proud of his little sister. Heather continues to freelance for newspapers and 56
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William Stewart (BA ’09) graduated with distinction from the MA Directing, Film, and TV course at the University of Westminster in December 2012. His film “Touch,” produced for the course, was selected for the Short Film Corner 2013 — Festival de Cannes. He can be reached at stewarwd@dal.ca.