Hey all! This week’s show features an interview with Roland Gulliver, the new Director at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. The festival starts today! There’s all kinds of really interesting things happening – online, of course, but the spirit remains the same. Gulliver discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by putting together a festival in such unusual circumstances. Tune in!
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GET LIT E61 with BARBARA SIBBALD
Hey all! Hope life is grand. Nothing to pre-blog about today, just trying to get stuff done. Still waking early and writing about 2500 – 3000 words a week. Is that good? I don’t know.
The show this week features journalist and author Barbara Sibbald. We talk about her collection of short stories, The Museum of Possibilities, available through Porcupine’s Quill. Hope you dig!
GET LIT E57 with DOMENICO CAPILONGO (with special guests Pasha Malla and Olga Kwak)
Hey everyone!
I want to take this moment to say I’m super excited about my own book-related things at the moment. First of all, I have finally been reviewed! The Captain of Kinnoull Hill was reviewed by the excellent Mark Sampson in the newest issue of Hamilton Arts and Letters. READ THE REVIEW HERE!!!
I also want to thank my new best friends at the Ontario Arts Council, as well as my publisher Palimpsest Press, for the Recommender’s Grant I just received. It’s my first-ever arts grant. Not sure if that makes me part of a club but it sure helps pay the bills and allows me more time to write, which is the point!
Today on the show, poet Domenico Capilongo talks about his latest, Send, out with Guernica Editions. We also hear Pasha Malla read from Fugue States, while my pal Olga Kwak reviews the latest from Jan Wong, Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy and China. Hope you enjoy!