Best Kim/Irene/Sarah Podcasts (2024)

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Shades of Black with Carlos Anthony 33:44

4d ago33:44

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Carlos Anthony is a screenwriter, producer, and novelist who addresses the historically silenced experiences of Black men. With a background in Advertising and Marketing, he learned effective communication and storytelling. Through diverse work experiences, he empathized with individuals from various backgrounds, observing the impact of factors lik…

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Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs with George Singleton featuring UWindsor Publishing Practicum 30:51

18d ago30:51

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George Singleton is a Southern author who has written ten books of short stories, two novels, an instructional book on writing fiction and a collection of essays. He was born in Anaheim, California and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina. In 2011 he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Singleton was ind…

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The Book of Benjamin with Ben Robinson 33:50

1M ago33:50

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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 ca…

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The Future with Catherine Leroux 25:16

2M ago25:16

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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 f…

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Sporting Justice with Miriam Wright 26:01

2M ago26:01

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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 &…

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On Community with Casey Plett 20:06

3M ago20:06

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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 Winni…

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The Blood of Five Rivers with Arjun Bedi 27:15

3M ago27:15

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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.…

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How to Build a Boat with Elaine Feeney 31:24

4M ago31:24

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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 sec…

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All Write in Sin City 2023 Wrap! 13:24

4M ago13:24

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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.buzzspro…

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Girl Country with Jacqueline Vogtman 23:10

5M ago23:10

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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 res…

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Deep Dark Secrets with Don Gillmor, Author of Breaking and Entering 14:40

5M ago14:40

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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…

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What to Count with Alise Alousi featuring Erik ETomic Johnson 26:08

5M ago26:08

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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 awar…

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The Art of Libromancy with Josh Cook 34:56

6M ago34:56

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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 li…

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Cocktail with Lisa Alward 25:53

6M ago25:53

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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 N…

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Black Scientist, Black Activist, Black Icon with George Elliot Clarke 36:50

7M ago36:50

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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…

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The African Samurai with Craig Shreve 23:05

7M ago23:05

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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 dau…

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Tales for Late Night Bonfires with G.A. Grisenthwaite 20:35

8M ago20:35

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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, E…

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Kevin Spenst Chuffed for Chapbooks Tour 12:28

9M ago12:28

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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 bo…

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Celebrating the Chatham Coloured All-Stars with Heidi L.M. Jacobs 42:06

9M ago42:06

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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 P…

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Arboreality with Rebecca Campbell featuring Brittni Brinn 30:51

10M ago30:51

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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 Mem…

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On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche 25:28

10M ago25:28

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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 lates…

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Ordinary Wonder Tales with Emily Urquhart 34:46

11M ago34:46

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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 li…

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Dioramas with Blair Austin Featuring Local Author Ben Van Dongen 34:19

11M ago34:19

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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 c…

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Love is a Place with Jade Wallace 26:41

12M ago26:41

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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,…

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The Middle Daughter with Chika Unigwe 33:50

12M ago33:50

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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 aw…

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Psych Murders with Stephanie Heit 30:57

1y ago30:57

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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 F…

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Tend with Kate Hargreaves and In the Middle Space from UWindsor Publishing Practicum 37:01

1y ago37:01

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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…

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Estates Large and Small with Ray Robertson 46:00

1y ago46:00

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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 …

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The Razor’s Edge with Karl Jirgens Featuring Matt St Amand 24:16

1y ago24:16

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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 “Coll…

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River, Diverted with Jamie Tennant, featuring CM Forest 40:21

1y ago40:21

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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 Fujir…

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Pauline Holdstock's Confessions with Keith 28:12

1y ago28:12

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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’ P…

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Raising Bean with W.S. Penn 26:57

1+ y ago26:57

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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 …

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Lucien & Olivia with Andre Narbonne Feat Edmond Gagnon 25:42

1+ y ago25:42

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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 Hal…

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Poetry Cafe from BookFest/Festival du Livre Windsor 2022 45:47

1+ y ago45:47

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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 r…

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On Property: Policing, Prisons and the Call for Abolition with Rinaldo Walcott 38:04

1+ y ago38:04

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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 nom…

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Indigenous Voice at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2022 59:36

1+ y ago59:36

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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…

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Sunset: a Celebration of Windsor's Youth Poet Laureate 1:13:32

1+ y ago1:13:32

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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 Zo…

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Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver at Biblioasis. 37:20

1+ y ago37:20

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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 mythopoe…

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At the Intersection of Race and Sports with Ian Kennedy 36:21

1+ y ago36:21

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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 Th…

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Grappling Hook with Sarah Tsiang 18:44

1+ y ago18:44

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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) …

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The Music Game with Stéfanie Clermont 19:13

1+ y ago19:13

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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 C…

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King of Hope with Kim Conklin 21:42

1+ y ago21:42

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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 rel…

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Animal Person with Alexander MacLeod 29:11

1+ y ago29:11

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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 Ra…

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Cora’s Kitchen with Kimberly Garrett Brown 21:01

1+ y ago21:01

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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 …

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Chemical Valley with David Huebert 28:44

2y ago28:44

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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 …

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BookFest Equinoxe Special 55:58

2y ago55:58

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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…

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Far Company with Cindy Hunter Morgan 41:32

2y ago41:32

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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 …

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Writer-in-Residence: Rosemary Nixon 35:28

2y ago35:28

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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; …

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There Will Be Fish with Peter Hrastovec 30:16

2y ago30:16

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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/produ…

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Community Anthology Launch & Readings 36:27

2y ago36:27

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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 C…

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