Welcome
WRITER
Sylvie Hill is known around Ottawa-Hull (Canada) for writing “Shotgun,” a hip and hilarious column that was featured in The Ottawa XPress, an arts and entertainment weekly for Canada’s Capital City.
She wrote alot about music, books and art for the paper.
Recent writing included a brief run with a new column called “Charger,” for Ottawa’s fantastic arts & culture magazine, Guerilla.
Sylvie the spoken-word poet has also published a book of spoken-word poetry called Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-night Stands. Her 2001 book launch was made into a documentary.
PERFORMER
Sylvie hosted season two of the romantic television dating series, The Letters: Rediscovering the Art of Courtship for CHUM Television. It aired on Book TV, Canadian Learning Television, Access Alberta and continues to air regularly on BRAVO television throughout 2009 and 2010.
She has emceed at several local events, including Westfest, and was host of the Ottawa chapter of Mustaches for Kids’ annual fundraising (Make a Wish Foundation) “‘Stache Bash Event” for 2007, 2008 and 2009.
www.sylviehill.com features some of Sylvie’s work, including the entire Shotgun column collection. Take a seat and have a read!