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Crow Reads Podcast
by Rayanne Haines
At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors in Canada. Crow Reads is recorded on Treaty 6 territory the traditional home of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations people. Crow Reads focuses on Alberta representation and tackles questions around social movements, cultural trends, feminism, #CanLit, and inclusion / representation. And, at the end of the day, celebrates the people who are making things happen in the literary world. The podcast is presented in partnership with Read Alberta and is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network.
Episodes
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Adriana Onita
In this episode I talk with Adriana Oniță, poet, artist, educator, translator, and researcher with a PhD in arts-based language education about her new book, DESCÂNTEC FOR MY SPLIT TONGUE, a collection that gathers English-Romanian poems that travel across generations, homelands, and dreamscapes…
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Anna Veprinska - Wound Archive
In honour of National Poetry Month, in this episode, I speak with poet and scholar Anna Veprinska about her masterfully crafted poetry collection Wound Archive. We discuss the completeness of fragments and the resistance to closure, the use of white space and punctuation, and the editing process...
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Scott Alexander Howard
In this episode we speak with Scott Alexander Howard about his award winning book, The Other Valley. Scott Alexander Howard has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his research focused on the relationship between emotion and memory.…
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Carissa Halton
In this episode I talk with author Carissa Halton about her debut novel Revolution Songs along with discussing research within place, how researching real people can help a writer with character development, the ways strategic planning can support a writer’s career, and writing historical fiction...
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Hollay Ghadery
In this episode of Crow Reads I talk with multi-genre author,podcaster and publicist, Hollay Ghadery about her multifaceted career, the pace of publishing and being in the public eye, the complexities and significance of being a literary citizen and the thing she wants every emerging writer to...
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Women Who Dig
In this episode, I talk with Trina Moyles and Anna Kuelken about their experience writing and producing the film, Women Who Dig. Originally a book by Trina Moyles, the Women Who Dig film is produced by Anna Kuelken. We talk about creative collaboration, and what it meant to share the stories of...
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Dr. Lisa Martin
After some time away to rethink, reinvigorate, and rebuild,Crow Reads is back with a new episode. This season I’m broadening our conversations into the literary world and interviewing, yes authors, as well as publishers, literary festival directors, editors, agents and more. For our…
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Leilei Chen
In this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines speaks to poet, scholar, and translator Leilei Chen about her 2023 poetry collection, I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, But Never Forsaken You (Frontenac House). They discuss Chen’s history as a writer, translator and scholar, the act of betrayal in...
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Astrid Blodgett
In this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne speaks to author Astrid Blodgett about her 2023 short story collection, This is How we Disappear, (UofA Press). The collection explores the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp…
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Natalie Meisner
In this month’s podcast Rayanne Haines speaks with playwright and poet, Natalie Meisner about her book, It Begins in Salt, a masterful collection of poems that wander the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and evolves into mothering, labours, and...
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Shima Robinson AKA Dwennimmen
In this month’s podcast Shima Robinson AKA Dwennimmen speaks to us, among other things, about finding your place in the poetry community, supporting the community while advocating for artist payment, self-publishing and self-creation, and finding the intent of the poem through performance....
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Ali Bryan
For Ali Bryan, writing is an act of imagination performed as daily ritual. For this Calgary based author, character and plot speak as one device, and she rebels against labels that diminish the value of her writing and use of humour as a tool towards story development. This award-winning author...
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Margaret Macpherson
In this episode, Rayanne speaks with Margaret Macpherson about her new book, Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood. The conversation looks at the ways the memoir touches on the racism deeply embedded in the North in the 60's and 70's and her understanding of it as a child and…
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Emily Riddle
In this month’s podcast Rayanne Haines speaks with Emily Riddle about her debut poetry collection, The Big Melt. The collection is rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events. It examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie...
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Leslie Greentree
In this episode, Rayanne Haines speaks with author Leslie Greentree about character vs plot driven stories, how short story and novel writing are shaped, writing flawed characters and controversial stories, and about career longevity in an increasingly competitive market. Leslie Greentree’s short...
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Sandra S.G. Wong
In this episode, Rayanne speaks with author Sandra S.G. Wong about writing the lived experience, the layers of research and character development that come with crime writing, ambiguity and suspense, and how women characters are perceived and approached in novel writing. In her latest novel…
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Skylar Kay
In this episode, Rayanne speaks to Skylar Kay about her debut poetry collection, Transcribing Moonlight. Her poetry explores how surrounding environments reflect and mirror human experiences, especially her experiences as a queer transgender woman. Rayanne and Skylar discuss the Haibun form,...
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Jason Purcell
In this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews Jason Purcell, a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, Jason writes at the intersection of queerness and illness and is…
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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
In this moving, joyful and vulnerable episode of Crow Reads, I talk with author and postdoctoral fellow, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike about his short story collection Double Walhala, Double Trouble, how the tenderness of Shakespeare and other romantic poets brought him to poetry during dark times…
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Premee Mohamed
For this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne speaks with Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author, Premee Mohamed about her novel, The Annual Migration of Clouds, genre labels, climate change, finding an agent and how to know when your book is done! The Annual Migration of Clouds starts...
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Trina Moyles
In September’s episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines talks with Trina Moyles, author, writer, and wildfire lookout about her latest book. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest, is a memoir about Moyles four summers working alone at a remote lookout tower in...
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Titilope Sonuga
In August’s episode, Rayanne interviews Titilope Sonuga about her new role as Edmonton’s ninth Poet Laureate, the act of shapeshifting as a writer, artist and women, and the importance of hope and healing through poetry in these times. Sonuga’s most recent book, This is How We Disappear is...
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Micheline Maylor
In July’s episode, Rayanne interviews Dr. Micheline Maylor. Dr. Maylor was Calgary’s Poet Laureate from 2016-18. Her latest poetry collection is The Bad Wife (U of A Press, 2021). The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what...
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Ellen Kartz
In today’s episode of Crow Reads, our first podcast in partnership with Read Alberta and under our new name, we speak with Ellen Kartz, poet and small press publisher. Ellen and I talk about lived experiences as catalysts for change, chasing and catching dreams, the social landscape evolving...
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Marilyn Dumont
It is National Indigenous History month and I’m delighted to share this conversation between myself and Metis scholar and poet Marilyn Dumont. During this episode, we talk about discovery of self and place, colonization and survival, the evolution of identity, the strength of Indigenous…
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Andrea Thompson
In this episode with spoken word poet, advocate and educator and Andrea Thompson, we talk about Oral Culture, Empowerment through poetry, Mental Health, Gatekeeping and Authenticity, and Powerful Black Artist Movements. It was hard to stop talking! Andrea has been publishing and performing her…
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Jade Wallace
In this month's episode, I talk with Author, Editor and Academic, Jade Wallace. Jade Wallace's poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in journals internationally, including This Magazine, Canadian Literature, The Stockholm Review, and elsewhere. They are the reviews editor for…
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Luciana Erregue
This month's episode features Luciana Erregue. Luciana is the editor/owner of Laberinto Press, an art historian, academic, and writer. She is a Banff Centre Literary Arts Alumni, a former Edmonton Arts Council Artist in Residence, and a recipient of the EAC Cultural Diversity in the Arts Grant.…
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Ayesha Chatterjee
For our first episode we speak with poet and editor Ayesha Chatterjee. Chatterjee is the author of two poetry collections, The Clarity of Distance, and Bottles and Bones. Her work has appeared in journals across the world and been translated into French and Slovene. Chatterjee is past president…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors in Canada. Crow Reads is recorded on Treaty 6 territory the traditional home of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations people. Crow Reads focuses on Alberta representation and tackles questions around social movements, cultural trends, feminism, #CanLit, and inclusion / representation. And, at the end of the day, celebrates the people who are making things happen in the literary world. The podcast is presented in partnership with Read Alberta and is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network.
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