Charlotte Gill | author site & blog

February 3, 2010

New look

Blogging has been sparse in recent months, as some may have noticed. I've been pushing ahead with other writing. My second book is about my long career planting trees in the clearcuts of western Canada. I planted 1,000,000 trees. It might be double that, actually--I stopped counting at a million. It will be published in 2011, by Greystone, who make beautiful, forest-friendly books about nature and the environment.

I'll be retiring the blog soon to make way for a reboot. Site redesign is in the works. Stay tuned.

December 13, 2009

Colombia

Photos from a recent trip to Colombia. Beautiful Bogota:

And Cartagena:

October 20, 2009

Treeplanting Tuesday

A coupla visual treats from the world of planting trees:

Liz Rubincam's photo series, Millions of Seedlings, with a nice little sidebar that answers the question: "What the hell is treeplanting?" Some of you may recognize Scooter from Replant in there--many of the photos were taken in his camp.

And THEN! A video to a song, "Treeplanters' Waltz," which is making the rounds on the interwebs these days:

Courtesy of our pal Baba Brinkman, who you can see above rapping shirtless. I believe that's Baba's dad, Dirk, making an archival cameo in the first few segments, planting trees in the '70s.

September 29, 2009

Vancouver launch of CABIN FEVER

Wednesday, September 30 at 8pm
The Brickhouse, 730 Main Street

Join us tomorrow night for the launch of CABIN FEVER + a birthday party celebrating 20 years of literary journalism at the Banff Centre.

About the anthology:

CABIN FEVER offers the finest creative non-fiction written by participants from the past six years.

CABIN FEVER: THE BEST NEW CANADIAN NON-FICTION
Edited by Moira Farr and Ian Pearson; introduction by Marni Jackson

Contributors:
*Taras Grescoe
*Jeff Warren
*Megan Williams
*Bill Reynolds
*Charlotte Gill
*John Vigna
*Margaret Webb
*Jaspreet Singh
*Jeremy Klaszus
*Deborah Ostrovsky
*Jonathan Garfinkel
*Penney Kome
*Andrew Westoll

Published by Thomas Allen

More:

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre, CABIN FEVER presents a selection of the finest creative non-fiction written by participants from the past six years.

This anthology includes essays on a strikingly original and global range of topics by some of the best non-fiction writers in the country.

Taras Grescoe goes in search of "pure" absinthe; Jeff Warren examines the way whales think; Megan Williams takes driving lessons in Rome; Bell Reynolds writes about the joys and dangers of riding a bicycle; Charlotte Gill gives us the dirt on her eighteen years as a tree planter; John Vigna confronts his relationship with a troubled brother; Margaret Webb takes a sexy road trip to find oysters; Jaspreet Singh ruminates on life in Kashmir in the age of plutonium; Jeremy Klaszus gets to know his grandfather, a former Hitler Youth who is obsessed with Google Maps; Deborah Ostrovsky explores bilingualism and the "grammar of relationships" after she marries into a Quebecois family; Jonathan Garfinkel goes to Israel to find a house occupied by an Arab and a Jew; Penney Kome writes about a family friend in Chicago who helped invent the atomic bomb; and Andrew Westoll gives up love in order to hunt for a rare frog in Suriname.

Unique, engaging and enriching, Cabin Fever is a testament to the literary talents of each individual and a tribute to the longevity and excellence of The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program over the past twenty years.

Cabin Fever
Edited by Moira Farr and Ian Pearson
Introduction by Marni Jackson
Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-88762-476-6
$24.95

*Special thanks to our onsite bookseller, Duthie Books.

September 12, 2009

Calgary reading this Thursday

For friends in Colberta, I'll be reading this Thursday in Calgary with incoming U of C writer-in-residence, Marcello Di Cintio:

Thursday, September 17 @ 7:30pm.
Engineered Air Theatre, Epcor Centre
205 8th Ave. SE

See you there!