Talk:Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

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Hello, Your article is looking good! One suggestion that I have for you is to add categories into your article. There is lots that you could add such as Canadian writers by ethnic or national origin, First Nations literature, Canadian literature, Canadian women writers, First nation writers. I think you could also create a List of Notable people/residents to Holman Island's wiki article (which, I believe, is listed as Ulukhaktok on wiki) and link her to that.

Another thing you could add is a section on all of her awards such as the ones for Stranger at Home http://www.annickpress.com/Stranger-at-Home-A If you want you could also make a heading for one of her books and dedicate a section to it where you go into a little more detail about the story and its background.

Hey, I added links to your article for some added clarity, which I now realize I should have just suggested you do here. My apologies, obviously feel free to remove any edits I made if you do not agree with them. Other than that, Vicky covered any other changes I would have suggested. Great article! Inanoffhandway (talk) 05:42, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Hey! Your article looks great! so as i messed up and already wrote a huge article on Margaret Fenton (SO sorry about that btw!!! was not intentional at all my mind was elsewhere that day) i have a few suggestions for you! As said above i would add some headings to break up the information as well as add in a picture of Margaret instead of or aswell as the picture illustrating where she is from. Under a section called "career" you could say how her writing began and what sparked her passion.

This was talked about in http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2010-10/oct18_10sr.html when they say "Until, one day, she was driving into town with her daughter-in-law, writer Christy Jordan-Fenton. "I told her about the experience I had at the residential school and how awful it was that they called me fatty legs, and she said 'Oh my goodness, can I write a book about that?' And I said, 'no!'" Pokiak-Fenton said, explaining it took a while before she was comfortable sharing her story. "I didn't want my grandchildren to know I was naughty at one time," she laughed. "I didn't realize it (at first) but I had a weight lifted from me after having written that in print. Now two years after work on Fatty Legs first began, Pokiak-Fenton gives readings at local schools and sells the book at the Fort St. John farmer's market. It has already made its way into Whitehorse libraries and both co-authors hope to distribute it to NWT libraries since Pokiak-Fenton still has many relatives in the territory."

above edit suggestion by (Katiebentleyyy (talk) 03:22, 5 April 2016 (UTC))