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Full Episode: Novelist PAMELA MULLOY on Historical Fiction from interesting times
This episode features novelist Pamela Mulloy and the challenges of writing historical fiction about uncertain times, as well as Tanis MacDonald and Frances Roberts Rei...
Madhur Anand: Poet, scientist, memoirist... Governor General's Award winner
We talk with poet, scientist, and memoirist Madhur Anand about living by rivers, about blending art and science in writing, and about her recent Governor General’s Awa...
Emily Urquhart: On MEMOIR AND MYTH in "The Age of Creativity"
We talk with nonfiction writer Emily Urquhart about her new book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me, featuring her father, abstract expressionist p...
Luke Hathaway: From Waterloo Region roots to INTERNATIONAL REACH
We talk with writer and editor Luke Hathaway about love and radical transformation, about the Waterloo Region roots and the international reach of his latest book, Yea...
Janet Rogers: Coming home to Six Nations and writing the PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
We sit down with Tuscarora writer, performer, and publisher Janet Rogers to discuss what it has meant for her to come home to Six Nations of the Grand River after deca...
Yvonne Blomer: Writing poetry for our LOCAL WATERSHEDS
We meet Yvonne Blomer, the editor of the Caitlin Press volume Sweet Water: Poetry for the Watersheds and speak with poets who are writing about and for their local wat...
Tasneem Jamal: The POWER OF FICTION to fill the cracks in history
We speak with Tasneem Jamal about her novel, Where The Air is Sweet, about a family who move to Kitchener following Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asian-Ugandans, about the p...
Mike Chaulk & Sarah Tolmie: Two local writers, TWO GREAT BOOKS
We talk with Mike Chaulk about his book Night Lunch, in which he crews on a ferry and freight vessel up the Labrador Coast. Also on the show, Sarah Tolmie introduces u...
Textile Magazine: DIVERSITY AND MENTORSHIP in local writing and community-focused art
We talk with writers and editors of Textile, a literary magazine that showcases the diversity of the Grand River region, and works to mentor emerging writers in the cr...
Janice Jo Lee: Discussing POETRY AS SONG & the art of writing a one-person musical
We talk with the multi-talented Janice Jo Lee about what it takes to write and star in a one-person musical, her tips for writing poetry as song, and her advocacy work...
Erin Bow: Exploring her "middle-school" novel, Russian folk tales, poetry and MORE!
We talk with Kitchener writer Erin Bow about her award-winning middle-school novel, Stand on the Sky, in which a young Kazakh woman trains an eagle to hunt. We also ta...