1. OBJECTIVE
A compelling writer with 16 years’ professional experience seeks opportunity in
creative communication planning
• Driven to share people’s passions and stories with integrity
• Builder of collaborative relationships
WENDY GOLDSMITH
cell:
778 919 5359
email:
wendygoldsmith@rocketmail.com
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Feature writing
• Custom content
• Blogs and web copy
• Project management
• Story development
• Financial services
• Home and garden design
• Interviewing
• Troubleshooting
PEOPLE ARE SAYING
On “Gastown Loft Living”
for BCLiving.ca
www.bcliving.ca/home/gastown-loft-
living-low-on-privacy-rich-with-history
Another AWESOME story. You have real talent, Wendy. I’ve read dozens of shelter
stories over the years and I can say that the odd writer or two will come close but you
pull off that storytelling with fact so well on these pieces. It’s obvious that you ask
questions that I’d never THINK of asking. … And, of course, doing the research to give
us some wonderful anchoring history. Makes my editor’s heart sing!
- Janet Gyenes, then editor of BC Home
On “Strings Attached”
for Vancouver
Foundation Magazine
www.vancouverfoundation.ca/whats-
new/strings-attached
Thank you for the marvelous job you did in your article about Catherine and her Fund
for the Vancouver Foundation. Thank you so very much for your very moving and
sensitive work – and for the marvelous way you captured Catherine and the spirit of her
story. Thank you for all the time you took talking to me that evening …and for the care
you took in consulting with me later about how some of the paragraphs should go.
- Carolyn, client of non-profit Vancouver Foundation
Regular Enterprise contributor on robo-advisors, financial literacy, pre-paid credit cards,
banking apps, marketing to millennials and employee engagement
Strong interview, research and story-development skills
WORK HISTORY
Freelance Writer
Vancouver
May 2011 to present​
Print
• Enterprise
• BC Home
• Alberta Home
• GardenWise
• The Canadian Cooperator
• WestWorld Alberta
• BCBusiness
Digital
• BCLiving.ca
• Enterprise
• Tourism Vancouver
• Central 1
• USAA
• Channel 4 Ideasfactory

2. Grocer Today ​
• Managed 40-page trade magazine
• Generated story ideas, wrote articles,
hired freelance writers, sourced art,
arranged interviews with clients
• Attended conferences in Saskatoon,
Quebec City, Toronto, Bangkok and
Vancouver to foster relationships
with food industry influencers
GardenWise
• Coordinated editorial between off-site
editor and design
• Repurposed GardenWise stories
for web
Cannor Nurseries
• Edited newsletter for largest custom-
content client
BCBusiness
• Project-managed and edited custom-
content features
Enterprise
• Assigned and wrote columns for work
life department
BCLiving.ca
• Kept Vancouver culture blog during
2010 Olympics
WORK HISTORY
Editor
Canada Wide Media Ltd.
January 2008 to July 2011
Freelance Journalist​
CalgaryInc, RedPoint Media
2006 to 2007
Mount Royal College, 2001 Professional Writing Certificate
University of Calgary, 1998 BAs in English and Political Science
EDUCATION
VOLUNTEER AND OTHER WORK
• Plan and teach free weekly yoga class for mothers and caregivers at Cedar Cottage
Neighbourhood House.
• Grant proposal consultant for Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society
• Keep a memoir-style blog about mental health at mywendyhouse.me
• Wrote business travel news, a time-and-money saving column and profiles of amazing
entrepreneurs.
Content Analyst
Critical Mass, Calgary
2006 to 2007
• Wrote online copy for banking and investment client, USAA, including retirement
advice articles, budget tools, and banner ads
Copyeditor
AEGON – Creative Services
Edinburgh
2005 to 2006
• Earned bonus for quick turnaround on a high-profile pension product launch,
including a new concept for a 15-page client guide and copyediting over 40
supporting financial brochures
• Successfully pitched concepts and copy at creative meetings
Freelance writer
Edinburgh and Glasgow
2004 to 2006
• Restaurant reviews in The List’s Eating and Drinking Guide to Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Profiles of up-and-coming musicians, artists and directors for Channel 4’s
Ideasfactory website