S2, Ep. 35: Coffee Break with Sadiqa de Meijer

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Sadiqa de Meijer. You can listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube.Do you have a writer who deserves writing inspiration and a community of writers this Christmas? Give them a gift subscription to Women Writing! Help them achieve their writing goals this year.Sadiqa de Meijer is the author of the essay collection In The Field (Palimpsest Press, 2025). Her previous books include Leaving Howe Island, The Outer Wards, and alfabet/alphabet. Her work, which often explores landscape, language, inner lives, motherhood, spirituality, and the long wakes of colonialism and migration, has received the CBC Poetry Prize, Arc's Poem of the Year Award, a Jean Royce Fellowship, the Governor General’s Award for English Non-Fiction, and other honours. It has been published in Poetry Magazine, the Walrus, Brick Magazine, Poetry London, and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry, the Best Canadian Essays, and the Dutch Turing Prize series. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.Do you need time to write? So do we! The Women Writing Circle meets on the second and fourth Monday of the month from 6:30-8:00 PM EST with occasional bonus sessions. Come and write with us! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit liisakovalawomenwriting.substack.com/subscribe