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All Write in Sin City

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Let's talk about writers and writing, right here in Sin City. Before we were the Motor City, one of the nicknames we were known by was "Sin City." Maybe that's why we've got so many great stories to tell. Our Windsor-Detroit region is full of inspiring poetry, first rate fiction, outstanding non-fiction, amazing writers, and exciting publishers. At All Write in Sin City, we aim to bring them to you. Check out our shows here, or take a listen wherever you listen to podcasts.

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The Book of Benjamin with Ben Robinson

March 17, 2024 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

Ben Robinson is a poet, musician and librarian. His most recent publication is Without Form from The Blasted Tree and knife | fork | book. He has only ever lived in Hamilton, Ontario on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. His first book is The Book of Benjamin from Palimpsest Press. You can find him online at benrobinson.work. https://palimpsestpress.ca/our-authors/ben-robinson/

The Future with Catherine Leroux

March 03, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB

Catherine Leroux is the author of three highly praised novels and an innovative sequence of short stories. Her first novel, La marche en forêt (2011), was a finalist for Quebec’s Booksellers’ Prize. Her bestselling second novel, The Party Wall, a translation of Le mur mitoyen, won the France–Quebec Prize in the original and, in translation, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Award. In the United States, The Party Wall was a prestigious Indies Introduce select...

Sporting Justice with Miriam Wright

February 18, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MB

Miriam Wright is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Windsor. She teaches Canadian history, and her recent work has focussed on race and sports in Canada as well as on Chinese immigration to Newfoundland and Labrador. Miriam is one of the researchers behind the award-winning Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred “Boomer” Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars project. Her new book, released by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in Fall 2023, is Sporting Justice: The Chatham...

On Community with Casey Plett

February 04, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MB

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love, the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, and the publisher at LittlePuss Press. She has written for the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. A winner of the Amazon First Novel Award and the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and a two-time winner of t...

The Blood of Five Rivers with Arjun Bedi

January 21, 2024 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB

Arjun Bedi is a second generation Indian-Canadian writer. He was born and raised in Mississauga. Formally educated in Philosophy, with an eclectic set of experiences to follow, his aim has always been to interact with the world in a way that keeps his curiosity alive. The Blood of Five Rivers is his first novel and is published by Palimpsest Press. https://palimpsestpress.ca/our-authors/arjun-bedi/

How to Build a Boat with Elaine Feeney

January 07, 2024 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB

About our guest:  Elaine Feeney is an award-winning poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Her second novel, How to Build a Boat, is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. Previously, Feeney has published three collections of poetry, including ...

All Write in Sin City 2023 Wrap!

December 31, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.22 MB

Join our three podcasters: Kim Conklin, Sarah Jarvis, and Irene Moore Davis for a fond look at some of the titles that caught our attention in 2023.  It's not an exhaustive list as we loved all our interviews and you can find them all in our episodes. Here are links to the ones we mentioned here: The Middle Daughter  Chika Unigwe https://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/12557891 G.A. Grisenthwaite’s Tales for Late Night Bonfires https://www.buzzsprout.com/327233/13410063 Psych Murders with Step...

Girl Country with Jacqueline Vogtman

December 10, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB

Jacqueline Vogtman’s fiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Permafrost, The Literary Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Third Coast, and other journals. A graduate of the MFA program at Bowling Green State University, she is currently Associate Professor of English at Mercer County Community College. She has lived in New Jersey most of her life and resides in a small town surrounded by nature, which she explores with her husband, daughter, and dog. Girl Country is her first book. https://www.dz...

Deep Dark Secrets with Don Gillmor, Author of Breaking and Entering

November 26, 2023 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MB

Don Gillmor is the author of To the River, which won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He is the author of three novels: Breaking and Entering, Long Change, Mount Pleasant, and Kanata. He is also the author of a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and has written nine books for children, two of which were nominated for a Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at Walrus magazine, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Walrus, Saturday...

What to Count with Alise Alousi featuring Erik ETomic Johnson

November 12, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Alise Alousi’s writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Three Fold Press, Mom Egg Review, The Detroit Free Press, Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent. She is a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and has received awards and fellowships from the Knight Foundation, Mesa Refuge, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and others. Alise Alousi has worked a...

The Art of Libromancy with Josh Cook

October 29, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

Josh Cook is a bookseller and co-owner at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder and his fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous leading literary publications. He grew up in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. His latest book is The Art of Libromancy with Biblioasis Press.  https://www.biblioasis.com/brand/cook-josh/

Cocktail with Lisa Alward

October 15, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MB

Lisa Alward grew up in Halifax during the 1960s and 70s. She worked in literary publishing in Toronto in the 80s and began writing fiction at 50. Her stories have won The Fiddlehead Prize and the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award and have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, as well as literary journals such as The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, untethered, Prairie Fire, and Exile. She lives with her husband, John, near the Wolastoq River in Fredericton.  Cock...

Black Scientist, Black Activist, Black Icon with George Elliot Clarke

October 01, 2023 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB

Poet, novelist, playwright, and critic Dr. George Elliott Clarke is a native of Windsor, Nova Scotia. He is a seventh-generation Canadian of African American and Mi'kmaq Indigenous descent. He earned his BA from the University of Waterloo, MA from Dalhousie University, and PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (which is where I first met him.) Clarke has served as both Poet Laureate of Toronto, Ontario and Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, and he teaches Canadian literature a...

The African Samurai with Craig Shreve

September 17, 2023 15:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB

Craig Shreve was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad. He is a descendant of Abraham Doras Shadd, the first Black person in Canada to be elected to public office, and of his daughter Mary Ann Shadd, the pioneering abolitionist, suffragette, and newspaper editor/publisher who was inducted posthumously into the National Wom...

Tales for Late Night Bonfires with G.A. Grisenthwaite

September 03, 2023 15:00 - 20 minutes - 13.3 MB

G. A. Grisenthwaite is Nlaka’pamux [Ing-khla-kap-muh], a member of the Lytton First Nation. He was a graphic designer in Vancouver and Kelowna before completing his master’s in English literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor. His stories and poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, FreeFall, Exile Quarterly, ndnCountry, Offset 17, Prism International, and Bawaajigan: Stories of Power. Grisenthwaite’s work has earned a number of prizes, ...

Kevin Spenst Chuffed for Chapbooks Tour

August 13, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.58 MB

In a special summertime "minisode" of All Write in Sin City, we connect with our friend and poet Kevin Spenst to find out what can happen on a no-holds-barred poetic romp across Canada. When he visited Windsor, he performed at the City of Windsor's birthday celebrations with our Poets Laureate, at the Art Windsor-Essex Gallery, and at Biblioasis bookstore. He was recorded live by Kim Conklin and interviewed by Irene Moore Davis. Kim Conklin and Sarah Jarvis did the editing (Kim did most of t...

Celebrating the Chatham Coloured All-Stars with Heidi L.M. Jacobs

July 23, 2023 15:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

Dr. Heidi L.M. Jacobs was born and raised in Edmonton. A graduate of the University of Alberta, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Western University, she is currently a librarian at the University of Windsor as well as an award-winning writer and documentary producer. Her previous books include the novel Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear (NeWest Press, 2019), which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 2020, and 100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One...

Arboreality with Rebecca Campbell featuring Brittni Brinn

July 09, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MB

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest" and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for “An Important Failure.” NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013. Her latest novel, ARBOREALIT...

On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche

June 25, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MB

Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books, and has written opinion pieces and essays for The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Walrus, and many others. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children. On Writing and Failure is his latest book, and it is the latest in a series of essays call the Field Notes published by Biblioasis. http://www.stephenmarche.com/ https://www.biblioasis.com/brand/marche-steph...

Ordinary Wonder Tales with Emily Urquhart

June 11, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MB

Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared in Longreads, Guernica, and The Walrus, and elsewhere, and her first book was shortlisted for the Kobo First Book Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontari...

Dioramas with Blair Austin Featuring Local Author Ben Van Dongen

May 28, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

Blair Austin was born in Michigan. A former prison librarian, he is a graduate  of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan where he won Hopwood awards for Fiction and Essay. He lives in Massachusetts. Dioramas is his first novel. It won the Dzanc Prize for Fiction in 2021. https://www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p/dioramas In a city far in the future, in a society that has come through a great upheaval, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, in...

Love is a Place with Jade Wallace

May 14, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

Jade Wallace is a writer from the Niagara fruit belt, currently living just south of the Detroit River and just north of Lake Erie. Wallace’s writing has won the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize and Coastal Shelf’s Funny & Poignant Poetry Contest, placed third in the Ken Belford Poetry Contest, been a finalist for the Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Prize, and been nominated for The Journey Prize. They are the author of several solo and collaborative chapbooks, the reviews editor for CAROUSEL Magazi...

The Middle Daughter with Chika Unigwe

April 30, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria. She was educated at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the Catholic University of Leuven prior to earning PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She now lives in the United States and teaches at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her work has been widely translated and has won multiple awards. Unigwe’s previous publications include the poetry collections Tear Drops and Born in Nigeria, novels The Phoenix, On Black Sisters’ Street, ...

Psych Murders with Stephanie Heit

April 16, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MB

Trigger Warning: Stephanie Heit speaks and writes courageously and frankly about her own mental health issues and treatments, which included ECT shock therapy. Stephanie Heit is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space. She is a psych system/shock survivor, bipolar, a mad activist, Zoeglossia Fellow, and a member of Olimpias, a disability performance collective. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on Three Fires Confederacy territory and...

Tend with Kate Hargreaves and In the Middle Space from UWindsor Publishing Practicum

April 02, 2023 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.4 MB

Kate Hargreaves is the author of the poetry collection, Leak, as well as Jammer Star, a roller derby novel for young readers, and Talking Derby, a book of prose vignettes. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, where she received the Governor General's Gold Medal in Graduate Studies. Her work has appeared in literary journals across Canada, the US, and the UK. As a book designer for numerous Canadian presses, Hargreaves has received honours from the A...

Estates Large and Small with Ray Robertson

March 19, 2023 15:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MB

Ray Robertson is the author of nine novels, four collections of non-fiction, and a book of poetry. His work has been nominated for several awards and have been translated into many languages. His non-fiction work, Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live has been made into a film. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives in Toronto. Estates Large and Small is his latest book, published by Windsor publisher Biblioasis.  http://biblioasis.com/brand/robertson-ray/ https://rayrobertson.com/ Note:...

The Razor’s Edge with Karl Jirgens Featuring Matt St Amand

March 05, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB

Karl Jirgens, Professor Emeritus, former English Department Head and former Chair of the Creative Writing Program (University of Windsor), is author of three books of fiction and two scholarly books (Coach House, Mercury, ECW and The Porcupine’s Quill Presses). He edited two books (on painter Jack Bush, and poet Christopher Dewdney), plus the “Collaborations” issue of Open Letter magazine with Beatriz Hausner. His scholarly and creative works are published globally. Jirgens edited and publis...

River, Diverted with Jamie Tennant, featuring CM Forest

February 19, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Jamie Tennant is a writer, author, broadcaster, and Program Director at McMaster’s radio station, 93.3 CFMU FM. He has covered music pop culture both locally and nationally. He also co-founded the Hamilton Independent Media Awards and became engaged in projects such as the 2015 JUNOs, the Polaris Prize, and Japan`s Fujirock Festival. His debut novel The Captain of Kinnoull Hill was released in 2016. On CFMU, Jamie hosts the weekly books and literature program and ...

Pauline Holdstock's Confessions with Keith

February 05, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB

Pauline Holdstock is an award-winning Canadian author, originally from the UK. She writes literary fiction, essays, and poetry. Her novels have been published in the UK, the US, Brazil, Portugal, Australia, and Germany. In Canada, her work has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Best First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Pauline’s essays and book reviews appear in Canada’s national newspapers and have been broadcast on CBC radi...

Raising Bean with W.S. Penn

January 22, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB

W. S. PENN is a mixed-blood Native American (Nez Perce) who was a Washburn Distinguished lecturer and has won the distinguished Faculty Award at Michigan State University. He is the author of two novels, The Absence of Angels and Killing Time with Strangers; a collection of short stories titled This Is the World; and two collections of essays, All My Sins Are Relatives and Feathering Custer. He has won many literary awards including the North American Indian Prose Award and a Critic’s Choice...

Lucien & Olivia with Andre Narbonne Feat Edmond Gagnon

January 08, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

A marine engineer by first trade, André Narbonne was living out of his duffel bag when he arrived in Halifax on a damaged tanker in the mid-eighties. He completed two degrees in English at Dalhousie University – where he was a Killam Scholar – and his Ph.D. in Canadian literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is a former chair of the Halifax chapter of the Canadian Poetry Association. His short stories have won the Atlantic Writing Competition, the FreeFall Prose Contest, and the ...

Poetry Cafe from BookFest/Festival du Livre Windsor 2022

December 25, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Welcome to a live session presented by BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2022 featuring Luke Hathaway, David Ly and Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. Moderated by Windsor poet Dorothy Mahoney. Sarah Jarvis, wearing two hats as podcaster and president of Literary Arts Windsor, the charitable organization that runs BookFest, introduces the sessions. This was recorded live at Fionn MacCool's, Windsor, so there are background noises and the occasional dropping spoon.  Occasional mature content.  Luke H...

On Property: Policing, Prisons and the Call for Abolition with Rinaldo Walcott

December 11, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

Recorded at the BookFest Windsor/Festival du livre Books and Brunch presentation, this live recording features a thought-provoking conversation between author Rinaldo Walcott and University of Windsor professor Natalie Delia Deckard about Walcott's much-discussed book, On Property: Policing, Prisons and the Call for Abolition. The book has been nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award, longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards, and selected as both a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and one...

Indigenous Voice at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2022

November 27, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MB

This live event was recorded on October 15, 2022 at the Chimczuk Museum in Windsor, Ontario as part of the BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2022 literary festival. You will hear a conversation with moderator Gord Grisenthwaite and Louse Bernice Halfe Skydancer, Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Joseph Kakwinokanasum, and Tyler Pennock. The event has been edited for sound and length. There are some mature subjects and language. It's all great. Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer was raised on Sad...

Sunset: a Celebration of Windsor's Youth Poet Laureate

November 13, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MB

A vibrant live event courtesy of the City of Windsor's Poet Laureate & Storytellers' Program, held on September 17, 2022 in the Coach House of Willistead Manor, Windsor, Ontario. Featuring and presented by outgoing Youth Poet Laureate, Alexei Ungurenaşu With contributions by:  Poet Laureate Emeritus Marty Gervais, Victoria Hecnar,  Mbonisi Zikhali Zokhonto, Serafina Piasentin, Past Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern,  Peter Hrastovec, Chidera Ikewibe, Nick Hildenbrand, Jade Wallace, Christopher ...

Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver at Biblioasis.

October 30, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

A special episode for you in the midst of the Fall Literary Festival Season! The wonderful poets Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver recently appeared at Biblioasis Bookstore.  Their publisher, Dan Wells introduces them. Episode edited for length. Enjoy these dynamic readings! Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and theatre maker. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new choral works by Colin Labadie, James Rolfe, and Zachary Wadsworth, among others, and to the folk opera The...

At the Intersection of Race and Sports with Ian Kennedy

October 16, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

A resident of Erie Beach, Ontario, Ian Kennedy is a secondary school teacher and journalist with a passion for sport and storytelling. In 2011, he founded CKSN (Chatham-Kent Sports Network), an online news outlet covering both amateur and professional athletes. His reporting has been featured on radio, in newspapers and publications that include The Hockey News, Canadian Horse Journal and Outdoor Canada magazine. He holds degrees in Kinesiology and Education from the University of Western On...

Grappling Hook with Sarah Tsiang

October 02, 2022 15:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is a poet, children’s writer, and all-around generalist when it comes to writing. Her books for children run the gamut from board books, Toesy Toes to YA Breathing Fire, with a whole bunch of picture books in-between. Her poetry books Sweet Devilry (winner of the Gerald Lampert) and Status Update (nominated for the Pat Lowther) are a mix of traditional forms, lyric, and invented forms. She is the Creative Director at Poetry In Voice. Her new book is Grappling Hook, a poet...

The Music Game with Stéfanie Clermont

September 18, 2022 15:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Stéfanie Clermont travelled throughout Canada and the United States, working at a wide variety of jobs, before settling in Montreal in 2012. Le jeu de la musique, her first book, was published in 2017. For this work, she won the prestigious Prix Ringuet of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council’s prize for a new work by a young artist, and le Prix Adrienne Choquette for short stories. It was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre d...

King of Hope with Kim Conklin

September 04, 2022 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MB

Kim Conklin is a writer, filmmaker, and podcaster. Kim’s stories, poems and films have appeared in journals, anthologies, and film festivals. Her journalism has appeared in broadcast and print, and her communications work has received more than 15 awards, including a Clio and a NY International Film Festival award. Her first novel, King of Hope releases in October, 2022 with Palimpsest Press, and Kim will appear at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor on October 14. Originally from Michigan,...

Animal Person with Alexander MacLeod

August 21, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

ALEXANDER MacLEOD was born in Inverness, Cape Breton, and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is the author of two internationally acclaimed books of fiction: Light Lifting, with Windsor’s Biblioasis, a winner of an Atlantic Book Award, and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, and the Commonwealth Book Prize. His latest book is Animal Person, which includes the O. Henry Award-winning story “Lagomorph...

Cora’s Kitchen with Kimberly Garrett Brown

August 07, 2022 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MB

Former Detroiter Kimberly Garrett Brown is the Publisher and Executive Editor of Minerva Rising Press. Her work has appeared in Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, The Feminist Collective, Compass Literary Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman, Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus and elsewhere.  Cora’s Kitchen is her first novel, due out in September 2022 from Toronto’s Inanna Publications. It was a finalist in the 2018 William Faulkner-William Wisdom ...

Chemical Valley with David Huebert

June 26, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MB

David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David’s work has been published in magazines such as The Walrus, Maisonneuve, enRoute, and Canadian Notes & Queries, and anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Pri...

BookFest Equinoxe Special

June 12, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MB

On April 22, 2022, Literary Arts Windsor and BookFest Windsor with funding from the Canadian Heritage Canadian Arts and Performance Fund celebrated a new outdoor and although very cool and rainy, well-attended event at Lanspeary Park in Windsor: BookFest Equinoxe. We welcomed wonderful musicians, but for rights issues, you’ll just hear the fabulous poetry and conversation with Alex-Andrei (Alexei) Ungurenaşu, Windsor’s Youth Poet Laureate and BookFest / Festival du Livre Planning chair durin...

Far Company with Cindy Hunter Morgan

May 29, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

Cindy Hunter Morgan is the author of Harborless, a book of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, which was published by Wayne State University Press. It was a 2018 Michigan Notable Book and the winner of the 2017 Moveen Prize in Poetry. Apple Season won the Midwest Writing Center's 2012 Chapbook Contest, and The Sultan, The Skater, The Bicycle Maker won The Ledge Press 2011 Poetry Chapbook Award. She writes regularly for Murder Ballad Monday, a blog devoted to the exploration of the murd...

Writer-in-Residence: Rosemary Nixon

May 15, 2022 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB

Rosemary Nixon is a short story writer, novelist, editor and creative writing teacher. She has served as the Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2011. Recently she returned as Writer in Residence in January and February of 2022.  Nixon’s first collection of short stories, Mostly Country, was shortlisted for the Howard O’Hagan Award; she won it with her second collection, The Cock’s Egg. Her novel Kalila was shortlisted for the George Bugnet Award for Fiction. Her most recen...

There Will Be Fish with Peter Hrastovec

May 01, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB

Born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Peter Hrastovec is the author of two books of poetry, In Lieu of Flowers and Sidelines. He was also a contributor to the writing project Because We Have All Lived Here. Peter practises law, advocates for his community and embraces the joys of grandparenthood with his wife, Denise https://blackmosspress.com/product/there-will-be-fish/ https://www.fitzhenry.ca/Search-Results?q=Hrastovec&LEAP_SearchSubmit=Submit

Community Anthology Launch & Readings

April 03, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

On March 19, 2022, a virtual launch was held for a wonderful project called the Community Anthology, published by A Beautiful Place Publishing House, a part of Gertrude’s Writing Room owned by our friend Vanessa Shields.  With poetry from 65 contributors from three continents, eight countries, four Canadian provinces, and four American states, the Community Anthology is a great celebration of what we mean by community today. It was compiled and edited by Vanessa Shields and our own Irene Mo...

At the end, Beginnings with Christopher Lawrence Menard

March 20, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

Christopher Lawrence Menard is a writer of stage, screen, fiction & poetry, actor, producer, director, and singer. He was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario where his love and work with local arts and artists led him to his career as the City of Windsor’s Cultural Development Coordinator where he works to support the efforts of the arts, culture, and heritage communities in Windsor. He is a proud member and supporter of the LGBTQ2S+ community. As a writer, Christopher’s original stage plays...

Writer by Trade, Warrior by Necessity – with Rochelle Riley

March 06, 2022 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Featured Guest: Rochelle Riley About our guest:  Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as an award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. She now guides the city’s investment in the creative economy and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. She offers commentary on MSNBC and NPR and contributes to Essence and Ebony magazines.  She received the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journali...

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