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Richard Levangie

Richard Levangie runs Best Coast Editorial in partnership with Kristina Robinson. They work with talented people in a variety of fields so that The Best Coast Group can be a one-stop shop for all your new media and promotional needs.

After graduating from Dalhousie University with a science degree in 1981, Levangie spent close to a decade in the hospitality and wine industries, managing several notable Halifax dining rooms, and running his own wine importing and consulting agency. In 1989, Levangie returned to school, graduating from the University of King's College with a bachelor of journalism degree. He was awarded the Governor-General's Medal for academic achievement and student leadership.

Over the next four years, he wrote weekly wine and food columns, and arts and health features for The Halifax Daily News.

Since then, he's worked as a freelance writer based in Halifax. He is one of a handful of Canadian wine writers who has helped the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa choose the Canadian wines that are served in our embassies abroad. Levangie, 51, has published articles in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Montréal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Mail Star, and The Saint John Telegraph-Journal.

He's also taught classes on writing to high school students through Nova Scotia's Writers in the Schools program. In addition to his newspaper work, he has also reviewed restaurants for enRoute, Air Canada's in-flight magazine, and written articles for (Britain's) WINE magazine, Wine Access, The Crafts Report and Dalhousie-The Alumni Magazine. He has also sold two travel features and six shorter literary essays to Endless Vacation — a U.S. travel magazine with more than 1.5 million readers — that have promoted tourism in Atlantic Canada. Just one of these travel features was estimated to have boosted Nova Scotia's tourism business that year by $20 million.

His article, Sickness or Sham won a national writing award from the Council for the Advancement of Education, while about a dozen stories have been nominated for national and international writing awards by various editors.

He lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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