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BIO Sue Carter Flinn is a Halifax-based writer and editor. Her journalism has appeared in a variety of local and national publications and websites, including The Coast, Quill & Quire, Naked Eye, Atlantic Books Today, Halifax Magazine, maisonneuve.org, Alternatives Journal, Fuse, Canadian Art, Spinner.ca, HGTV.ca and CAA magazine. She covers mostly arts, architecture, fashion, film and music, but also has experience writing online and print news, health, travel and lifestyle features. Sue was awarded the 2007 Atlantic Journalism Award for Arts & Entertainment Reporting for her feature on photographer George Steeves, which appeared in The Coast, February 22, 2007. In 2008, she received the silver AJA for her story on rising art star David Harper and the 2009 silver award for her story on Halifax's amateur comedy scene. In 2004, Sue was hired by The Coast as their Listings Editor (2004-05), then as Special Issues Editor (2005-06), where she wrote and edited glossy restaurant and shopping guides, among other thematic issues, e.g. wellbeing, food and drink, etc. She is now employed as the alt-weekly's Arts Editor, responsible for the newspaper's Music, Movies and Arts sections. Dedicated to developing the local creative community, Sue has developed an annual holiday fiction issue, a postcard fiction contest, and popular fashion and home-style issues. Online, she's produced live-event blogs, videos, slideshows and readers' polls. Since 2o03, Sue has been editor of Visual Arts News, a nationally distributed magazine dedicated to visual art in Atlantic Canada (36 pages, tri-annual), and is the Halifax reviewer for Akimblog, the publishing arm of Akimbo.ca, which receives 27,000 page views per month. She is also an experienced researcher, hired by various arts organizations for documentation and collection cataloguing, and knows all sorts of video, audio, page layout and imaging programs. In addition, Sue has a lot of experience working with various internet and social media tools, In addition to her editing, research and writing work, Sue also serves on numerous arts juries, for worthy organizations such as the Polaris Prize, Echo Songwriting Prize, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax Pop Explosion, Nocturne Arts Festival and Music Nova Scotia, and has hosted many arts events and panels. She served on the board of directors for Eyelevel Gallery (2004-07) as co-chair, and was a founding organizer of the popular Halifax artist-studio tour, Go North! and Dear Diary, a popular reading series. Prior to her life as a journalist, Sue worked as a communications specialist for the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto, one of the country's biggest treasures. Before that, she travelled the world for a now-deceased company (R.I.P.), organizing events for show biz execs in Amsterdam, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. She's no stranger to writing grants, proposals, speeches and plans, or copyediting manuscripts, magazines, newspapers, reports and press releases. In 2007, Sue was awarded a CFAT Media Arts Scholarship and created a short animated video, the first of many to come. But really, if she had more time she'd be writing a lot more fiction and screenplays. Two of her short stories appeared in new writer anthologies by Invisible Publishing and she was chosen to attend the 2010 PEI Screenwriters Bootcamp. She is currently working on several film scripts and a non-fiction manuscript. Sue lives in a pretty house with her husband Sean, an accomplished freelance journalist, and a long-haired demon named Lucy. *** Tools: Skilled in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Flash, HTML design, ProTools, Quark, MS Office, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and various content management systems. Advanced user of social media and web analytics tools. For a complete writing, editing and research resume, email suecflinn at gmail.com. To see what she's thinking about when she leaves work, go to Not At Work. |
