Jennifer Cockrall-King, an Edmonton freelance writer is the 2011 winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award. Ms.Cockrall-King’s successful 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.
Award developer Shirley Dunn presents Jennifer Cockrall-King with the $2000 Dave Greber Award Freelance Writers Book Award for books on the CBC Centre Stage at the Edmonton Litfest, October 14, 2011
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 also are 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 as freelance food writer whose work has appeared in many publications such as Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, National Post, NUVO, Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, Westworld, Chicago Sun-Times and CBC Canada One. Jennifer has won a number of Magazine Awards (Western Canadian Magazine Award) and has been short listed for several others. Jennifer teaches food and magazine writing courses at Grant MacEwan University, University of Alberta's Faculty of Extension, and University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna. She is he founder and producer of the Okanagan Food and Wine Writers Workshop.
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