A podcast dedicated to interviewing local writers practicing their art and craft in the Grand River region. You can listen to the show every Saturday morning at 10am on Midtown Radio KW. Supported by the Waterloo Region Arts Fund.
Latest Episodes
WLU Writer in Residence NASSER HUSSAIN on his work's playfully seriousness
Join host Tanis MacDonald this week on Watershed Writers when she talks to Nasser Hussain — Wilfrid Laurier University's 2024 Edna Staebler Writer in Residence — about...
Kitchener poet CHRIS BANKS on the speed of life and humour as an author's tool
Tanis MacDonald is joined by the celebrated and prolific Kitchener poet Chris Banks to discuss the speed of life in the 21st Century, writing metaphors for anxiety, an...
Hamilton writer ANUJA VARGHESE on her Governor General's Award winning collection "Chrysalis"
Host Tanis MacDonald brings us Anuja Varghese, winner of this year’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction to discuss her genre-bending use of gothic elements in the fa...
Waterloo writer CARRIE SNYDER on real-life fiction
Tanis MacDonald spends an hour talking with author and mentor Carrie Snyder on her career writing through real-life FRICTION — and how her writing is informed by her b...
Paris, Ontario author ALISON FISHBURN on purity culture and fellowship
Tanis MacDonald sits down with Alison Fishburn to talk about purity culture, writing about class and finding fellowship as an author, and her award-winning performance...