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Truth Is, Artistic Director of Guelph Spoken Word By Kim Davids Mandar Guelph is host to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW)— happening from October 28th until November 3rd. This is Guelph’s first time hosting in its fifteen year run. There are eighteen teams competing from across Canada. Artistic Director, Truth Is, joined Bookish…

Stephen Henighan is the author of no less than sixteen books of fiction, criticism, and nonfiction, most recently  the short story collection Blue River and Red Earth and his translation of the Angolan writer Ondjaki’s novel Transparent City. He is a novelist and short story writer, journalist, translator and professor of Latin American literature at the University of Guelph….

David Chariandy – Brother by Kim Davids Mandar Gryphons Read is an extra-curricular book club at The University of Guelph. The program began last year, for first year students, with Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People. This year, the scope of participation was broadened beyond first year students, and we all read Brother, by…

Dr. Brian Goldman — The Power of Kindness by Anna Bowen Dr. Brian Goldman is the much-beloved CBC host of the program White Coat Black Art which he has hosted since 2007.  White Coat Black Art is  a multi-award-winning show on CBC Radio that reveals what goes on behind hospital doors. Dr. Goldman’s recent nonfiction…

An interview with Katie McGarry, by Kim Davids Mandar Katie holds an MSc in Mathematics from McMaster University and is a recent graduate of The Writer’s Studio Online through Simon Fraser University. Originally from Toronto, Katie lives in Waterloo and works as a Mathematics Lab Coordinator at Wilfrid Laurier University. Katie reads from some recently…