Pen for Hire is a freelance news writing, photography and communications firm based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and owned by Carmen Pauls Orthner.

Since leaving a full-time reporting job in her adopted hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan in January 2003, Carmen has worked across the journalistic and communications spectrum.

Carmen’s strongest assets – aside from her in-depth knowledge of the remote yet fascinating region in which she lived for eighteen years – are her integrity, her professional skills and her passion for talking with people and sharing their stories.