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A selection of Interviews from our shows
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The Interviews
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| Sylvia Taylor The craft and artistry of writing from both the writer's view and the perspective of editing, coaching and supporting the writer on the way to publication. The Fisher Queen - an adventure as a deck hand on board of a 40-foot fishing vessel that is tossed about in vicious storms and 100-foot waves. For more information on the author at sylviataylor.ca |
 Lawrence Hill
with hosts Art Hartmut and Radhika Yedanapudi |
Lawrence Hill wins Canada's most desirable writer's award for
the second time: the CBC "CANADA READS" contest - for his novel ' The Illegal' published in 2015, a few weeks before we recorded this interview with him. He is the first author to win this prize twice. CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is preparing a 6-episode TV-mini series based on this novel. He won this prize for 'The Book of Negroes' , published in 2007 - and the CBC made into a TV mini-series. This novel has since become one of Canada's most successful books ever. In its original publication its title was ' Someone Knows My Name '. |
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| Kristi Charish Interview |
Kristi Charish - A wealthy dragon in disguise , a grumpy
cat whose hobby is hunting vampires, and a very modern female
protagonist who sometimes speaks her mind too quickly. Listen to
Kristi talking about how a female lead character does not have
to be always likeable. See more at kristicharish.com She reads to us a section from the first of her 4-part 'OWL' series - Owl and the Japanese Circus |
| Elizabeth McLean Interview |
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| She reads for us from the second one of the eight narratives - "The Mongolian Stake" | |
| Hiromi Goto Interview | Hiromi Goto writes stories
for adults, children and those halfway between. ... her story characters often live half-way between different worlds. - Her writing career started with a bang - her first novel won the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region) for the best first book. |
| In her stories you will find many ghosts and creatures from folklore, traces of japanese heritage intertwined with life in the prairies, along the road of finding one's own identity. Follow her on Twitter at @hirganai | |
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Serena Shipp - her essay "Fishing" won the top spot in the 2015 Creative Non-Fiction contest in Room Magazine. Do the words 'harsh' and 'beautiful' go together? Beautiful in its spirit, against the harsh background of a loved-one's self-destructive behaviour. A young writer on her first foray into published literature, Serena shows a wonderful mastery of telling a hard-edged story in simple words with poetic beauty. |
| "...there are some things that I can't fully understand ... for these, I must write, write to figure it all out..." - Read more of her essays at http://serenashipp.com/ | |
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| Kerry Wilkinson | Kerry Wilkinson is one of
Amazon's top-10 bestselling Kindle authors from the UK. - Writing stories about a 16-year-old rebel lost in a warped world? Or a detective hunting criminals in a fictional Manchester underworld? - In that case, you'd better not believe in the devil's numbers : Last year, Kerry's books at libraries in the UK were borrowed 66066 times, as counted by @PLR_UK, and his first deal with a major publisher was for a series of 6 (!) books. (does he know some kind of numbers trick they don't teach us at school?) |
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| - At the start, in his first year he offered a 99
cent deal on his e-book "Locked In", and the 100,000th copy was
sold 6 months later exactly on Christmas eve. - He gives much credit for his success to his often grumpy female detective character Jessica Daniel. In the 5 years since migrating from sports journalism, he's written 14 books published around he world in print and as e-books. Writer's block anyone? see kerrywilkinson.com |
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 Non Dirmi Che Hai Paura Don't Tell Me You're Afraid Ne Dit Me Que Tu As Peur Sag Nicht Dass Du Angst hast |
Giuseppe Catozzella,
Italian journalist and author wrote a book that should not have been necessary to write, a story that ends in way that should have never happened. But it became a story we all need to know.
Author's website (Italian) * see Youtube - youtube news video (Italian) * see BBC (2008) - Against All Odds |
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| Samia's story |
| Ayelet Tsabari "The Best Place On Earth" |
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a book of eleven shortstories that start somewhere in the
middle and end in the middle, too. This year, 2015, the book won
the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Ayelet grew up in Israel and currently lives in Toronto. Listen as she tells us how she started a (make-belief) library when she was 8 years old. Her website is www.ayelettsabari.com |
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Michael Christie The Beggar’s Garden This collection of short stories --set in a gritty area near Vancouver’s harbour front-- was a great start. It won the Vancouver Book Prize, and was a contender for the Giller and the Writers Trust prizes. His latest work is If I fall, If I die. In this interview he tells WritingLife host Julia Vergara how he gets through the "mental marathon" of writing, and not getting distracted by the digital sea of information. Check his website for more info http://michaelchristie.net/ |
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 'The New Yorker' - 'The Atlantic' - 'National Geographic' and others published his articles. His bestseller 'The Golden Spruce' won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction (Canada). His nonfiction book, 'The Tiger' is an award-winning bestseller based on real-life events in Russia's Far East. His latest book, a novel, is 'The Jaguar’s Children' |
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Julia Vergara interviews Leslie
Vryenhoek - Author of fiction, poetry and memoir. Her books - "Scrabble Lessons", "Ledger of the Open Hand", "Gulf" explore intimate relationships to a place or to a family . She spent many years in the Canadian prairies and currently lives in Newfoundland Check out her website at http://www.leslievryenhoek.com/ |
Caroline
Adderson No, shortstory writing is not "training
wheels" for writing novels, and more insights from Caroline
Addison, useful for budding storytellers and enlightening for
readers. If the link above does not work click here (in separate page) She arrived at the studio while technicians worked frantically to deal with a power outage in the area, but our guest took it all in stride. Find out more on her website carolineaddison.com |
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Lori Shenher
with Radhika and Art |
"That
Lonely Section of Hell"
Lori Shenher tells us how she came to write this book about her extraordinary and disheartening experience as a detective for the Police department in pursuit of the worst serial killer in Canadian history who targeted sex workers in Vancouver Downtown East. |
"The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer
Who Almost Got Away"
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She had identified the suspect Pickton years before the final arrest - and many lives could have been saved - but her insights were not acted on, not given sufficient resources, information was not collected or not shared by the RCMP with the city police, or even forgotten in drawers.
We asked about her personal experiences. For the events and the murderous spree of Robert Pickton you can consult a large number of links on the internet.
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Wayde Compton
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He started writing when he was high school, and this is where
he learned the value of having a mentor.
He is now returning the favour to a new generation of students at Simon Fraser University where he is the director of the Creative Writing Program, SFU continuing studies. Find out more about Wayde - website * waydecompton.com * |
Daniel Kalla :
A
Busy Person,
or ? |
 His now complete trilogy of historical fiction moves from war time Vienna to a hospital in the brutal and surreal Shanghai of the 1940s. We asked Dr. Daniel Kalla how he writes a book a year, simultaneous with a full time career as a *** -- can you guess? And what question, do you think, he is asked most often? An author's adventure of the "lesser" kind : What happens when your author's book signing event collides with an autograph session by a group of cheerleaders? Find out this and more at on his web site * DanielKalla.com * |
Elegant Ladies mixing and mashing it at the FRINGE of a city buzzing with writerly activity, and why one would visit a writers meetup group.
A conversation with Malcolm van Delst , writer multimedia artist , and organizer
| The ladies' biographies Vancouver Writers Meetup |
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and the lovely Ukulele music supplied by two talented teenage girls in
the forest. Check
them out !
samwiebe.com
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Interview
with Susan Pieters Writer of short stories like the award winning “The Glass Curtain” ... and she knows what mysterious activities are going on behind the mountain of submissions on the desk of an Acquisitions Editor, specifically her desk at Pulp Literature Press where she is one of the founders, publishing anthologies of short stories with a mad mix of genres. She is also teaching other writers how to make editors want to read their prose and poetry. |
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John
Ayliff "BELT THREE" John tells us about writing his novel, getting hints from Dungeons and Dragons, and his thoughts about SCI FI, and how close to stay to reality while imagining a fantastic world 300 years into the future. The book is available for download. Read the first chapter at his website johnayliff.com |
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Jai Undurti is a journalist, a comic
book writer, collaborates on publishing science fiction graphic
novels, one by the title  The Robots of Dharma His first entry into this field was "Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel" created to show the character of this very large city in India. You find him on Facebook Our co-host Radhika spoke with him in Hyderabad, India |
| Aislinn Hunter |
What?
You are REAL?
The imaginary main character from her book suddenly stood in front of the author, all dressed up, real enough to poke him in the head.
Aislinn Hunter - Her book "Stay" morphed into a movie of the same name. She tells of the long road from writing the book, and much later traveling to the village and Irish pub that she had chosen as the location of her novel, and the amazing experience of seeing the fictional characters walking about. Her book "Stay" is at major bookstores, the movie is on Netflix. Her most recent work : "The World Before Us" More about Aislinn Hunter at her website www.aislinnhunter.com Related to her books: Vancouver Sun Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Reviews of The World Before Us: The Guardian -and- New York Book Review |
| Body, mind and soul of a
writer? When your body won't stay at the writing desk, your body is not in the writing mood, or your soul is hiding in a corner Call a Writing Coach ! Insights from Dr. Melba Burns and Kathrin Lake |
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Melba Burns
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For more info
website for Dr.Melba Burns - http://inspirationwomen.com/
website for Kathrin Lake - www.kathrinlake.com |
 Now is TIME for TOUGH LOVE we asked COLIN THOMAS |
We asked the Playwrite ("Playwright") , Theatre critic for Vancouver's Georgia Straight Newspaper, and Behind-The-Scenes Editor for both emerging and established award-winning authors a question "when should you find an editor for your literary work in progress?" - and his answer was not what we expected ! * What are the biggest errors that emerging writers make? * Should your protagonist love opera? Oh, really! Really? * Are you, too, Waiting For Godot? Hey, don't touch my story plot!!! A book editor's view on editing. More about Colin Thomas on his blog - http://www.colinthomas.ca/blog |
A VERY
PERSONAL REALITY
 Emily
Urquhart (center) with hosts Art Hartmut and Julia VergaraWriter, Participant, Investigator, and Activist |
Not fiction but unsettling reality: While completing her PhD degree and pursuing folklore history in Newfoundland, and welcoming her first child into this world, a very unexpected hidden reality from a distant past re-appears in the present. We asked her about her experience as a writer of this deeply touching story.  For the story
itself read " Beyond
The Pale " The central character of BEYOND THE PALE is a lovely little girl - at this time of this interview 4 years old. More about Emily Urquhart at her website http://emilyurquhart.ca/ Related to the book: The United Nations has officially declared June 13 as "International Albinism Awareness Day". |
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Cities as
Characters? Coffee-shop Creativity?
*A Conversation with Zsuzsi Gartner and Heather O'Neill * Hosts for this episode Kathrin and Art - Gartner's shortstory collection "Better Living Through Plastic Explosives" was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and so was O'Neill's new book "The Girl Who was Saturday Night". O'Neill's first novel "Lullabies for Little Criminals" quickly became a bestseller. "... writing is a very private activity ..." |
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GARTNER
* ZsuZsi Gartner website * bon vivant storyteller * O'Neill * CBC -Girl who was... - * CBC - Heather debut novel |
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Caught you! Getting
Involved in Criminal Activity? ALMOST CRIMINAL A conversation about writing crime novels with E.R. Brown 
E.R. Brown's novel " Almost Criminal" was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis "Best First Novel" Award, and was also among the nominees for the prestigious Edgar Awards, the biggest award in the crime/mystery genre. Incidentally, one of the fellow nominees was Stephen King (who also didn't win the final prize), quite a start on a first novel. More about E.R. Brown on his website www.erbrown.com |
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When
Writing is Not About Writing
Jason Liesch -
about writing-singing-playing-recording his own songs
Georgia Hunter - about entering the realm of audio book |
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Jason on Youtube - In Between _ this interview on Youtube _ ----------------------------------------- Georgia's website GeorgiaHunterBooks.com Excerpt from Georgia's audio book Yubi and the Blue Tailed Rat |
Find
more episodes here soon - April 28 - 21 - 14 -
see CFRO download link at the top of the page
see CFRO download link at the top of the page
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Creative
Writing Programs
with
our guests Nicola Harwood
Professor
of Creative Writing, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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The article by
Ryan Boudinot which
we mentioned in this episode Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now and read the reply by one of his former students I Was the MFA Student Who Made Ryan Boudinot Cry |
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Children's Literature [1]
with guests Georgia Hunter and Kerstin Clarkson |
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Two Spoken Stories and the
Adventure of Writing
with our guests Aviva Martin and Wiley McLallan |
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The
delightfully wild cello player who I mentioned near the end
of the show,
is
Cicely Parnas like the one that appears in Aviva's story. See
her in "A Cellist Auditions" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_8yPpCjK_w
The
kind of African string instrument that over the years
morphed into the BANJO is called by various names, including
the "Akonting". Slaves still made and used them at the time
when Wiley's fictional story begins.
Watch
Sana Ndiaye play a modern version of this
instrument in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc9Y_uu1KH8 |
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