WINNER
2013 RED MAPLE
Non-fiction
Ontario Library
Association
ABOUT BILL
Bill Swan is a retired journalism professor and college administrator who
is still actively involved in writing fiction; media, promotion and web
material; and online educational material.
He has experience in the lecture hall (19 years as a journalism
professor at Durham College, Oshawa, ON.), the newsroom (10 years
as reporter, editor and manager of a daily newspaper in Woodstock,
Ont.,), and the classroom (he began his career as an elementary school
teacher, and even taught in a two-room school with a wood-burning
stove and a woodshed. [So beware!]
Swan is a native of Bright, in Oxford County, and a former managing
editor of The Daily Sentinel-Review in Woodstock, Ont. He is a former
Director of Applied Arts at Durham College, where he still co-chairs the
Academic Appeals Committee. He continues his involvement in the
college system as a communications consultant to the Ontario College
Administrative Staff Association, and teaches several courses each year
on line in journalism and business report writing to an international
market through OntarioLearn, a consortium of 22 Ontario Community
Colleges
He was a member of the 1953-54 Washington Senators, runners-up to
the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Juvenile “D” championship. This
team played out of the Plattsville Arena. He also attended the same high
school as Bobby Hull for one year. After watching Hull skate one day
following a high school noon hour skate at the Perry Street “Ice Palace”
in Woodstock, Swan gave up hockey for less physical pursuits. His love
of hockey can be seen in his two hockey novels, Deflection! and The
Enforcer.