All Write in Sin City
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLet'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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At the end, Beginnings with Christopher Lawrence Menard
March 20, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBChristopher 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 MBFeatured 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...
The Bank Street Peeper: Stories with Inner-City Charm with Emma Odrach
February 20, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBEmma Odrach is an author and literary translator from Toronto, who now calls Windsor home. Alaska or Bust and Other Stories was published by Crimson Cloak Publishing in Missouri in 2017. Her translation of novel Wave of Terror, written by her late father, Theodore Odrach and dealing with the Stalinist occupation during WW2, was published by Chicago Review Press in 2008. She won an honorable mention from the Translation Center at Columbia University for a book of her father’s stories. Her new...
100 Episodes of All Write in Sin City – a Retrospective and Celebration
February 06, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.4 MBFeatured Guests - The Hosts! Kim Conklin, Irene Moore Davis, Sarah Jarvis On today’s episode of All Write in Sin City, we thought we’d mark and celebrate our 100 episodes so far. We’re going to look back on a few episodes that stood out for each of us in different ways. We loved all of our guests, and all of our episodes – but well, you’ll see how we’ve selected them. We’ll share some lovely feedback from former guests, and then reveal an episode that - well, knocked us all sideways wit...
Walkerville Publishing: A Taster
January 23, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBFeatured Guests: Elaine Weeks and Chris Edwards About our guests: Elaine has a B.A. in English from the University of Windsor plus two years of postgraduate studies in Visual Arts. She’s a community leader with over 30 years experience in advertising, public relations, event planning, publishing, writing, editing, photography, conservation and heritage preservation. She’s written a novel called “Time Trespasser” and is working on a sequel. Chris Edwards holds a Master of Arts in Communi...
GGLA Celebration with Tolu Oloruntoba and Aimee Parent Dunn
January 09, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBThe Occasion: In October 2021, something wonderful and astonishing happened: three authors published by small but mighty Windsor-based Palimpsest Press were nominated for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards: Sadiqa de Meijer for non-fiction, G.A. Grisenthwaite for fiction, and Tolu Oloruntoba for poetry. In November, Sadiqa de Meijer and Tolu Oloruntoba were indeed announced as two of this year’s seven English language Governor General’s Literary Award winners. Today we’re speaking ...
Running-Shaped Hole with Robert Earl Stewart
December 12, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBRobert Earl Stewart’s first collection of poetry, Something Burned Along the Southern Border (Mansfield Press), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems have been published in journals in Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain. In 2010, he received the Windsor Endowment for the Arts’ grant for Emerging Artist in Literary Arts. His poetry has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., including This, Magma Poetry, Poetry Super High...
Jim Daniels: Gun Shy
November 28, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBA native of Detroit, Jim Daniels is the author of numerous collections of poetry and short stories. He’s also written four produced screenplays, collaborated with photographer Charlee Brodsky on gallery shows and publication projects including the book street, which won the Tillie Olsen Prize, and he has edited or co-edited six anthologies. He currently lives in Pittsburgh and is the Thomas S. Baker University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon. His recent books include Rowing Inland (Way...
Truth Trumps Fiction, with Will Toffan
November 14, 2021 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBA retired history teacher and veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, William Toffan lives in Windsor, Ontario, with his wife, Laura, and children Lauren, Heidi, Oksana, and Heather. Published by Biblioasis in the fall of 2020, his first book is Watching the Devil Dance: How a Spree Killer Slipped through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System. http://biblioasis.com/brand/toffan-will/
We Hope for Better Things with Erin Bartels
October 31, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBErin Bartels is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, 2020 WFWA Star Award–winner, and a 2019 Christy Award finalist. Other books include The Words between Us, a 2020 Christy Award finalist and 2015 WFWA Rising Star Award–winner, and All That We Carried, released in January 2021. Her short story “This Elegant Ruin” was a finalist in The Saturday Evening Post 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. Her poems have been published by The Lyric and The ...
Attached to the Earth: A Conversation with Margaret Christakos
October 10, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBMargaret Christakos is a widely published award-winning poet, fiction author, critic, and creative writing instructor. Her work has won the ReLit Award for Poetry and the Bliss Carman Award, has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Award twice, and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She was appointed Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004–2005, served as Canada Council Writer in Residence at Western University in 2016–2017 and at the University of Alb...
The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers with Marcello Di Cintio
October 03, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBMarcello Di Cintio is the author of five books. Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa won the Henry Kriesel Award for Best First Book. Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey into the Heart of Iran won the Wilfred Eggleston Prize for Best Nonfiction at the Alberta Book Awards. Walls: Travels Along the Barricades and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense were both winners of the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, with the former winning the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Po...
Uncle: Race and Nostalgia with Cheryl Thompson
September 19, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBCheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the School of Creative Industries. She is author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She previously held a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Conversation, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Spacing, Herizons Magazine, Halifax Coast, and Rabble.ca. She was born and raised in Toronto, where she currently resides. She has also lived in t...
Bronwen Wallace award winner: Alexa Winik
September 05, 2021 15:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBAlexa Winik is a Canadian poet and writer from Windsor, Ontario. She was awarded the 2020 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in various journals. She holds an MLitt in Women, Writing, and Gender and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. Winik has also served as poetry editor for the online literary journal The Scores. In 2019, she was the poet-in-residence with the At Sea Resi...
Lake Erie Blues with Nick Conrad
August 29, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBNick Conrad's poems first began to appear in national and international literary reviews in the late 70's. More than 125 poems have since appeared in a variety of journals and review in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland as well as on the web and in various anthologies. He lives in Toledo, Ohio. Nick’s most recent book is Lake Erie Blues, published by Urban Farmhouse Press. https://urbanfarmhousepress.ca/index.php?id_product=25&controller=product
Detroit Fairy Tales with Elisa Sinnett
August 15, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBElisa Sinnett is a writer and teacher and a member of the American Federation of Teachers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family, but her hometown is Detroit, Michigan. She works on her writing with author Ariel Gore and the Literary Kitchen. Sections of her book Detroit Fairy Tales have been published in or recognized by various magazines and journals. Elisa says that she is “an immigrant to the middle class and is dismayed to discover shortly after her arrival that is was being dis...
Dead of Winter: with Stephen Mack Jones
August 01, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBHammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist Stephen Mack Jones is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers AUGUST SNOW and LIVES LAID AWAY. LIVES LAID AWAY was short-listed for the CWA-UK "Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award." He has also contributed an essay to the non-fiction book WHAT NOW?: Essays On Life After Trump (2021, Wellstone Center of the Redwoods.) His new book, DEAD OF WINTER, was published in May. Stephen Mack Jones is also a published poet, an award-winning playwright,...
Celebrating Windsor’s Earliest Black Women Writers, Mary Miles Bibb and Mary Ann Shadd Cary
June 27, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this episode we are celebrating two of Windsor’s earliest and most influential women writers, both of them women of African heritage who lived in Windsor in the 1850s: Mary Miles Bibb and Mary Ann Shadd Cary. We are joined Teajai Travis, Amina Abdulle, and our own Irene Moore Davis. Teajai Travis is an Afro-Indigenous artist and activist, born and raised in Waawiiyaatanong, the last stop of the Underground Railroad. As an art practitioner, Teajai uses poetry, spoken word and traditional...
Digging Deep with Harvey Ovshinsky
June 13, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBHarvey Ovshinsky is a writer, producer, story consultant, educator, and public speaker. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the country’s oldest underground newspapers. Five years later, he become one of the county’s youngest news directors in commercial radio at WABX-FM, Detroit’s notorious progressive rock station. Both jobs placed him directly in the bullseye of the nation’s tumultuous counterculture of the 1960s and 70s. Later, as a documentary director, his wo...
100 Miles of Baseball with Dale Jacobs and Heidi L.M. Jacobs
May 30, 2021 15:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBDale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy. He is the editor of Sunday with the Tigers: Eleven Ways to Watch a Game and The Myles Horton Reader, and co-editor of A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. His academic/creative nonfiction book, The 1976 Project: On Comics and Grief, is forthcoming. He is the editor of The Windsor Review and teaches in the English Department at the University of Windsor. Heidi LM Jacob...
100 Miles of Baseball with Dale Jacobs and Heidi L.M. Jacobs
May 30, 2021 15:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBDale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy. He is the editor of Sunday with the Tigers: Eleven Ways to Watch a Game and The Myles Horton Reader, and co-editor of A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. His academic/creative nonfiction book, The 1976 Project: On Comics and Grief, is forthcoming. He is the editor of The Windsor Review and teaches in the English Department at the University of Windsor. Heidi LM Jacob...
Measuring out in Thimbles with Vanessa Shields
May 16, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBVanessa Shields is a poet, writer and workshop facilitator in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her first book, Laughing Through A Second Pregnancy – A Memoir, was published by Black Moss Press in 2011 to rave reviews. In April 2013, Shields edited a poetry anthology entitled, Whisky Sour City (Black Moss Press). I Am That Woman (Black Moss Press), her first book of poetry, was published in 2014, Look At Her (Black Moss Press) in 2016. In 2017, Shields was part of a Group of Seven poets published i...
Poetry Is a Piece of Cake, with Ellie Csepregi
May 02, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBEllie Csepregi has been a cultural worker since 1972… a nomad who is currently situated in Windsor, Ontario, who graduated from the University of Windsor, and who has taught high school for over twenty years. Her work has been performed by dance and theatre companies in Vancouver and has appeared in several publications including The Windsor Review, Rampike, Ash (Oxford University Press), Spittoon (Beijing), Cranberry Tree Press Anthologies, and Whisky Sour City Anthology (Black Moss Press.)...
The Exit Strategy with Lainey Cameron
April 18, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBLainey Cameron is a debut author who has achieved great success with her novel, The Exit Strategy. It’s the winner of the 2020 Readers’ Favorite Award for women’s fiction and #1 Amazon Bestseller in Feminist books. The book has also been honored with: • A Gold Medal in the 2020 Readers Choice Awards (for women's fiction) • A Finalist designation in the 2020 Best Book Awards by American Bookfest • A nomination as a notable indie for 2020 by Shelf Unbound • And it wa...
A Poetic Environment with Cecily Nicholson
April 04, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBCecily Nicholson is the author of Triage, and From the Poplars, which won the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. Her most recent book, Wayside Sang, won a Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She volunteers with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. Her performances, talks and residencies have been hosted by educational spaces such as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Centre for Indigenous Research Creation at Queen's University, Woodland Pattern Book Cent...
Writing, Editing, and Collaborating with Jade Wallace
March 07, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBJade Wallace’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been published, or are forthcoming, in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand, and India. They are the author of several chapbooks, most recently the collaborative ZZOO (Collusion Books, October 2020) and Test Centre (ZED Press 2019), and the solo Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther Press 2018). Jade’s most recent chapbook is Southern Ontario Gothic Tour in 2020. Their writing has won the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize and the Anita...
Catching Up with Christopher Paul Curtis
February 21, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBIt has been twenty five years since Christopher Paul Curtis first earned a Newbery Honor as well as an Honor from the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, his critically acclaimed debut novel which was subsequently adapted for a Hallmark TV movie. In 2000, he became the first African American man to win the Newbery Medal for his 1999 novel Bud, Not Buddy, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award. His books Bucking the Sarge (2004), Mr. Chickee’s Fun...
A Tribute to Detroit Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett
February 07, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBThis podcast is a little different than our usual programs. Dr. Naomi Long Madgett, the Detroit Poet Laureate, had been on our interview “wish list” for some time. Last fall, we tried to interview her here on the podcast about her latest book, You Are My Joy and Pain. That did not work out, and sadly, a few weeks later, she passed away. Today, we’ll be paying tribute to Madgett’s career as a poet, publisher and Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2020. We’re talking with two people in the Detroit lit...
D.A. Lockhart: Poems and Essays
January 24, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBOur guest is D.A. Lockhart. He is the author of seven books, including Devil in the Woods, The Gravel Lot That Was Montana, This City at the Crossroads, Big Medicine Comes to Erie, and an essay collection called Wënchikàneit Visions. D.A. Lockhart holds degrees from Trent University, Montana State University, and Indiana University. His work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019, TriQuarterly, ARC Poetry Magazine, Grain, Belt, and The Malahat Review among others. He is also th...
Waltzing Home with G.A. Grisenthwaite
January 10, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBG. A. Grisenthwaite is Nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation. His stories and poems have appeared in The Anitgonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, and Prism International. His work has earned a number of prizes, including the 2014 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award. He lives in Kingsville, ON. His first novel is Home Waltz, published by Palimpsest Press in 2020. Resources: https://palimpsestpress.ca/our-authors/g-a-grisenthwaite/
All Write in Sin City Holiday Special
December 27, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWelcome to a special edition of All Write in Sin City podcast. The podcasting elves are taking a break over the holidays, but thanks to the wonders of modern tech, we’ll be back in 2021 to bring you more great interviews and readings. In this episode, we’re sharing some of the great readings we enjoyed throughout this year. All of the recordings were done safely and remotely, but you’ll certainly hear the authors’ passion and dedication. We loved all of our interviews, and here we have s...
A Fresh Look at The Windsor Review
December 13, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBDr. Dale Jacobs teaches Composition and Rhetoric with interests in comics, composition pedagogies, literacy, and visual rhetorics at the University of Windsor, Ontario. In addition to numerous books and articles on rhetoric, he is the editor of North by North Wit: An Anthology of Canadian Humour (Black Moss Press, 2003) and Ice: New Writing on Hockey (Spotted Cow Press, 1997). He has edited Sunday with the Tigers: Eleven Ways to Watch a Game (Black Moss Press, 2015). Dale Jacobs is the new e...
Finding Meaning in Detroit with Joseph Harris
December 06, 2020 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBStories by Joseph Harris have appeared in Midwest Review, Moon City Review, Great Lakes Review, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Storm Cellar, and have received the Gesell, Tompkins, and Detroit Working Writers’ Awards for fiction. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Wayne State University, and a BFA from Emerson College. His collection of short fiction, You’re in the Wrong Place, is a collection of linked short stories about young people in Ferndale, Michigan, strugg...
Exploring Buick City with Bob Campbell
November 29, 2020 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBBob Campbell is a writer based in Flint, Mich. His creative nonfiction and essays have appeared in Belt Magazine, Forge Literary Magazine and Gravel Magazine. He is a contributor to Belt Publishing’s Midwest Architecture Journeys, published in October 2019. Bob was a staff writer for the Flint Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader and Detroit Free Press. He was also an electrician at AC Spark Plug, formerly a division of General Motors, before moving into journalism. His debut novel, Motown Man...
Byward with rob mclennan
November 22, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBBorn in Ottawa, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent poetry collections are A...
Pineapple Express: Evelyn Lau
November 15, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBBased in Vancouver, Evelyn Lau is the author of thirteen books, including eight volumes of poetry. Her poetry has received the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, and nominations for a BC Book Prize and a Governor-General’s Award. From 2011-2014, Evelyn served as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate. Her latest book is Pineapple Express. Evelyn Lau is a BookFest / Festival du livre 2020 guest. https://www.anvilpress.com/books/pineappl...
Running Amok with Kevin Spenst
November 08, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBKevin Spenst, a Pushcart Prize nominee, is the author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong (both Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (Alfred Gustav Press), Ward Notes (serif of nottingham), Flip Flop Faces and Unexpurgated Lives (JackPine Press), and Upend (Frog Hollow Press: Dis/Ability series). His work has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry, been nominated for both the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has appe...
Collaboration and Curation with Mark Laliberte
November 01, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBMark Laliberte is a Canadian artist, writer, editor and graphic designer — and the creator of The 4PANEL Project. He curates the strips that appear on 4panel.ca, and, as project founder, is also an active artist-participant. Recent books include: BRICKBRICKBRICK (BookThug), Grey Supreme 01 (Koyama Press), asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press), BookBook (above/ground) and Explosive Comic (Swimmers Group). He is the owner and operator of POPNOIR EDITIONS (established in 2016) which publishes ...
Writing as a Tool of Activism: Ava Homa
October 25, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBAVA HOMA is a writer, journalist and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. Born and raised in the Kurdistan Province of Iran, Homa now divides her time between Toronto and San Francisco. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor. Her collection of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada–Humber College...
The Gentler Side of SuperVillains with Natalie Zina Walschots
October 18, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBNatalie Zina Walschots, originally from Essex County, is a writer and game designer whose work includes live action role-playing game (LARP) scripts, heavy metal music journalism, video game lore, and weirder things classified as "interactive experiences." Her writing on the interactive adventure The Aluminum Cat won an IndieCade award, and her poetic exploration of the notes engine in Bloodborne was featured in Kotaku and First Person Scholar. She is also an accomplished poet, publishing: T...
Creating Community, with Kristyn Dunnion
October 11, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBKristyn Dunnion grew up in Essex County, the southernmost tip of Canada, and now lives in Toronto. She is the author of six books, including Tarry This Night and The Dirt Chronicles, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her short fiction is widely published, most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2020, Foglifter, Orca: A Literary Journal, and Toronto 2033. Dunnion works supporting adults with mental illness, and has been a healthy food advocate for marginalized communities. Her latest book is S...
Nice to Meet You, David Ly
October 04, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 7.9 MBDavid Ly is a writer and poet based in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in World Literature, English, and Creative Writing, and a Master of Publishing degree from Simon Fraser University. He is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn (2018.) His poetry has appeared in an array of magazines and anthologies, including The Puritan, carte blanche, The Maynard, Pulp Literature, PRISM international, and The /tƐmz/ Review. David has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been long- ...
Affirmations for the Real World with Hana Shafi
September 27, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBHana Shafi is a writer and artist who illustrates under the name Frizz Kid. Both her visual art and writing frequently explore themes such as feminism, body politics, racism, and pop culture with an affinity to horror. A graduate of Ryerson University’s Journalism Program, she has published articles in publications such as The Walrus, Hazlitt, This Magazine, Torontoist, Huffington Post, and has been featured on Buzzfeed India, Buzzfeed Canada, CBC, Flare Magazine, Mashable, and Shameless. Kn...
Deep Dark Secrets with Shani Mootoo
September 20, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBShani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and lives in Canada. She holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Mootoo’s critically acclaimed novels include Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki’s Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea, and Cereus Blooms at Night. She is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the James Dugg...
Deep Dark Secrets with Shani Mootoo
September 20, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBShani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and lives in Canada. She holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Mootoo’s critically acclaimed novels include Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki’s Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea, and Cereus Blooms at Night. She is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the James Dugg...
A Conversation with Multidisciplinary Artist Carol Rose GoldenEagle
September 13, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBCarol Rose GoldenEagle is a novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist, and musician. She is the author of the award-winning novel Bearskin Diary, published by Nightwood Editions in 2015, which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for its French translation in 2019. A sequel, The Narrows of Fear, will be published in October 2020 by Inanna Publications. Her novel, Bone Black was released by Nightwood Editions in 2019, and her poetry collection, Hiraeth, a finalist for the 2019 Rasmussen, Rasmusse...
Words and Numbers with Alice Aspinall
September 06, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.42 MBAlice Aspinall is a high school mathematics educator and author who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She loves spending time with her husband and two children reading books, playing math games, and exploring the outdoors. She is a strong advocate of the growth mindset. She is continually looking for ways to build young people’s confidence in math and to make math fun, challenging, and satisfying, including through her YouTube channel, “MrsALovesMath.” Alice is also a champion for females in STEM, ...
What the Chickadee Knows with Margaret Noodin
August 30, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBMargaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as the director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education. She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and Weweni (Wayne State University Press, 2015), a collection of bil...
A Fine Canopy: New Environmental Poetry
August 23, 2020 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBThe first full-length collection from poet and environmental activist Alison Swan, A Fine Canopy, will be released in October by Wayne State University Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and Here: Women Writing on the Upper Peninsula. Her work has also bee...
The Wicked Sister: New Thriller from Karen Dionne
August 02, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBKaren Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel, The Marsh King’s Daughter. It was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Karen has been active in the writing community for over twenty years. She co-founded the online writers community Backspace, organized the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York and the Bahamas, and served on the board of directors of the International Thriller Writers organization. Originally from ...