Watershed Writers w/ Tanis MacDonald
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.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
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 Reilly discussing the summer in boo…
00:59:56 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
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 Award for "This Red Line Goes Strai…
00:58:07 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 painter and sculptor Tony Urquhar…
01:00:00 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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, Years, Months, and Days, and about …
00:59:30 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 decades away, her dreams as a litera…
00:59:31 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 watersheds. With Gary Barwin and La…
00:59:31 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 power of fiction to fill in histo…
00:59:59 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 us to her book, Check, about conf…
00:59:31 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 creation of community-engaged art.
00:59:31 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 with young writers.
00:48:47 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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 talk about Russian folk tales and …
00:59:31 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
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