Bookish Radio

By Tamara Jong On today’s Bookish Radio episode, we talk to writer Sanchari Sur about our mutual love of FOLD, what energizes her writing, her early work, her writing process and what she’s working these days. Oh and a heckuva reading midway through the interview. Sanchari Sur is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow. Her work…

  This week, we’re offering a few book recommendations to get you through these cold winter nights from some voices in our community including artist aislinn thomas, author and artist Barbara-Helen Hill, publisher and writer Jeremy Luke Hill of Gordon Hill Press, Andrea Patehviri, Marketing & Outreach Director at CFRU 93.3FM, and poet-farmer-philosopher Karen Houle. The…

By Kim Davids Mandar Quoting a favourite movie, Ashley shared a line: “Sometimes you make choices and sometimes choices make you…” and said that “writing is one of those choices that has made me.” Today’s episode features a conversation with Poet Ashley Hynd and her daughter, Autumn. We had a rich exchange in studio together,…

By Tamara Jong Today on Bookish Radio we talk to writer Carrianne Leung. She is the author of two fiction books, The Wondrous Woo (Inanna Publications) and That Time I loved You (Harper Collins Canada). She writes fiction, nonfiction and is an educator. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies from OISE/University of…

Today’s espisode features a conversation with Author and Creative Writing Teacher, Mahak Jain. Mahak completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and was previously the Managing Editor at Owlkids and at Lobster Press. Mahak’s story, Maya, was published as a picture book with illustrations by Elly Mackay. Winning multiple awards, both…