All Episodes

Chris Labonté shares what he wishes readers knew about BC book publihsers

Laurel Dykstra on how activism is a balm for climate anxiety

Janice Lynn Mather on why she loves writing short fiction

Ian Williams talks about putting himself on the page in his book Disorientation

Chantal Gibson talks about erasure and the portrayal of Black women in culture

Gregor Craigie on Canada's unique housing problem

Celebrating community: Mary-Ann Yazedjian on the books that transformed her, and on how Amazon devalues books

Iona Whishaw on creating compelling characters like Lane Winslow that drive a murder mystery forward

Returning to King's Cove and Iona Whishaw's beloved Lane Winslow mystery series

Carleigh Baker on embracing the absurd

Marilyn Bowering on the lessons of resilience she learned from Mary MacLeod

Bill Richardson reflects on the community that inspired his book of stories I Saw Three Ships

Jenny Manzer talks about how The Glass Castle inspired here middle grade novel

Michelle Cyca on the joy of reading and "great novels"

Christopher Cheung talks about the need for conversations of race when we're talking about media

Replay: Rina Hadziev on the changing role of public libraries

Danny Ramadan talks about approaching himself as a character in his memoir

Bill Arnott talks about how seeing a place on foot offers new perspectives

Season 7 Episode 15: Revisiting Book Design with Jazmin Welch who answers the question "should we judge a book by its cover?"

Shashi Bhat talks why she worried about writing a collection focused on women's stories

Scott Alexander Howard talks about how he developed the setting of his debut novel The Other Valley

Zehra Naqvi talks about poetry helped her find her voice.

S7 E11 Shari Green, author Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams, talks about how she learned that novel writing could be a refuge

S7 E10 Li Charmaine Anne talks about how joy and comedy helps us read outside our experiences

S7 E9 Anthony Nerada talks about why we all need to be reading queer romances

S7 E8 Minelle Mahtani talks about capturing silence and the unspoken on the page

S7 E7: Kayla Czaga talks about how she uses objects as portals in her poems

S7 E6: Loghan Paylor on learning to love your story's antagonist

S7 E5: Deirdre Simon Dore on why we need messy and complicated protagonists

S7 E4: Mei Yu on how public libraries helped shape her as an author

S7 E3: Julie Wilkins on how books and bookstores build community

S7 E2: Leslie Gentile on how music helped her explore her characters

S6 Episode 38: Marion McKinnon Crook on how mysteries helped her write memoir

S6 Episode 38: Revisiting popular episodes: Roy Henry Vickers & Lucky Budd talk about oral history

S6 Episode 37: Popular past episodes: Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians, talks about humor as a decolonizing tool

S6 Episode 36: Sam George and Jill Yonit Goldberg talk about why storytelling is important in learning and education

S6 Episode 35: Revisiting our episode with the Honourable Janet Austin on how reading helps understand community.

Season 6 Episode 34: Maya McKibbin and Ellen Rooney on the magic of picture book illustration

Season 6 Episode 33: Ian Kennedy talks about why we should know the history of the Princess Maquinna

Season 6 Episode 32: Jazmin Welch answers the question "should we judge a book by its cover?"

Season 6 Episode 31: Cassie Smyth talks about how ECW began making audiobooks in Canada

Season 6 Episode 30: Christopher Patterson talks about Y-Dang Troeung's book Landbridge

Season 6 Episode 29: Jennifer Bonnell talks about the changing perspectives around conservation in British Columbia

Season 6 Episode 28: Wanda John-Kehewin talks about books that build empathy in young readers

Season 6 Episode 27: Lindsay Wong talks about horror and subverting food tropes in BIPOC writing

Season 6 Episode 26: Katherine Palmer Gordon, Geoffrey Morrison, and Jess Housty on Storytelling

Season 6 Episode 25: Kirsten Pendreigh talks about writing about death in children's books

Season 6 Episode 24: Polly Horvath talks about developing characters for her middle grade novels

Season 6 Episode 23: Recommended reads from Lindsay Wong, Lara Jean Okihiro, David Norwell, and Andrea Warner

Season 6 Episode 22: Janis Bridger & Lara Jean Okihiro on talking about Japanese Internment

Season 6 Episode 21: Lara Jean Okihiro, Janis Bridger, Jordan Scott on writing about family

Season 6 Episode 20: David Norwell on the role of awe and wonder

Season 6 Episode 19: Jordan Scott on sense memories and remembering his Baba

Season 6 Episode 18: Hazel Jane Plante on the witchiness of novel writing

Season 6 Episode 17: Chelsea Wakelyn talks about communal grief during the toxic drug crisis

Season 6 Episode 16: Dominique Bernier-Cormier talks about the language of dreams

Season 6 Episode 15: Jess Housty on how her grandmother played a role in the creation of her poems

Season 6 Episode 14: Remembering Darrel McLeod with his episode about Mamaskatch

Season 6 Episode 13: Katherine Palmer Gordon on the importance of reciprocity

Season 6 Episode 12: Cathy Stonehouse talks about using object to write about her dream house

Season 6 Episode 11: Geoffrey Morrison on how poetry led him to his debut novel

Season 6 Episode 10: Colleen Brown on writing about her mother beyond her murder

Season 6 Episode 9: Francine McCabe on supporting local fibre and textile producers

Season 6 Episode 8: Darrel McLeod on how fiction changes his writing practice

Season 6 Episode 7: Bradley Peters on how he used the sonnet to write about prison

Season 6 Episode 6: Andrea Warner how she started Rise up and Sing!

Season 6 Episode 5: Julie Lawson talks about the family stories that have inspired her books

Season 6 Episode 4: Henry Tsang talks about the legacy of anti-Asian Riots

Season 6 Episode 3: Brandon Reid talks about family stories and fiction

Season 6 Episode 2: Emelia Symington-Fedy on consent and writing memoir

Season 6 Episode 1: E.G. Alaraj on the magic and challenges of board books

Season 5 Episode 32: Jackie Hoffart talks about how Massy Arts supports and reflects community

Season 5 Episode 31: Kyeren Regehr on the legacy of one of Victoria's beloved reading series

Season 5 Episode 30: Hope Lauterbach celebrating and creating space for BIPOC writers

Season 5 Episode 29: Susan Sanford Blades talks about how she started the Wild Prose Reading Series

Season 5 Episode 28: Jesse Donaldson and Erika Dyck on harm reduction and Pink Floyd

Season 5 Episode 27: Otoniya Okot Bitek on maps, cartography, and Heart of Darkness

Season 5 Episode 26: Jesse Finkelstein on what excites her about the future of publishing

Season 5 Episode 25: Monique Gray Smith on staying hopeful

Season 5 Episode 24: Billy-Ray Belcourt on how his novel allowed him to write what was unwritable

Season 5 Episode 23: Rachel Hartman talks about the world for her books she created as a kid

Season 5 Episode 22: Tsering Yangzom Lama talks about doubt and writing

S5 Episode 21: Gary Wyatt talks about the impact of Robert Davidson's art

S5 Episode 20: Susan Juby talks about how the #metoo movement inspired her middle grade novel

S5 Episode 19: Grant Lawrence talks about the journalistic approach he took in Return to Solitude

S5 Episode 18: Janice Lynn Mather on why she loves writing short fiction

S5 Episode 17: Christopher Patterson talks about the research and writing of Y-Dang Troeung

S5 Episode 16: Michael Hathaway talks about shifting cultural relationships to mushrooms

S5 Episode 15: Cecily Nicholson talks about the politics of food and poetics.

S5 Episode 14: Robin Stevenson talks about censorship and the need for queer joy

S5 Episode 13: Harrison Mooney talks about creative hygiene and false realities

S5 Episode 12: Cole Pauls talks about zines, manga, and working with youth

S5 Episode 11: Katherine Munro talks why haiku inspires her

S5 Episode 10: Eve Lazarus talks about how families need transparency around cold cases

S5 Episode 9: Emily Seo talks about how she revisited her tween years in The Science of Boys

S5 Episode 8: Jessika Von Innerebner talks about Richard Scary, and making magic in picture books

S5 Episode 7: Marion Ehrenberg talks about she merged her career as a psychologist with writing

S5 Episode 6: Kim Spencer talks about shifting her memoir to a middle grade novel

S5 Episode 5: Haley Healey & Kimiko Fraser talk about writing historical books

S5 Episode 4: Megan Fennya Jones talks about writing about experiences of the body

S5 Episode 3: Lyndsie Bourgon talks about how life histories added nuance to her book

S5 Episode 2: Sheryda Warrener talks about how her noticing practice shapes her poetry

S5 Episode 1: Danny Ramadan on how to write good sex scenes

S4 Episode 37: Editing 101 with Shaena Lambert, Cadence Mandybura, and Danielle Geller

S4 Episode 36: Rebecca Wood Barrett talks about film adaptations and the Whistler Writers Festival

S4 Episode 35: Michelle Cyca talks about the joy of reading and "great novels"

S4 Episode 34: CEO of Creative BC Prem Gill talks about supporting British Columbia book publishers

S4 Episode 33: Ingrid Love talks about the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival

S4 Episode 32: Mary-Ann Yazedjian talks about her journey to becoming a book person

S4 Episode 31: Iona Whishaw talks about how a longing for home shaped setting

S4 Episode 30: Matea Kulić talks about what sets BC book publishing apart from other regions

S4 Episode 29: Shane Goth talks about the power of collective imagining in picture books

S4 Episode 28: Angela Ahn talks about how she wrote about shame in her middle grade novel

S4 Episode 27: Fiona Tinwei Lam talks about mentorship and anthologies as literary parties

S4 Episode 26: Grahame Russel discusses why we aren't talking about Canadian mining in Guatemala

S4 Episode 25: Alix Ohlin talks about how we need new ways to tell stories

S4 Episode 24: Ian Williams talks about putting himself on the page in his book Disorientation

S4 Episode 23: Barry Gough talks about how good storytelling makes history come alive

S4 Episode 22: Karen Duffek and Jordan Wilson talk about what decolonization looks like in museums

S4 Episode 21: Susan McClelland talks about what drew her to work on Boy from Buchenwald

S4 Episode 20: Tara Borin talks about the importance of community to their writing practice

S4 Episode 19: Harsha Walia talks about drawing inspiration from those who make home and safety

S4 Episode 18: Kallie George and Elly MacKay talk about capturing wonder for their readers.

S4 Episode 17: Jenny Boychuk talks about why she wanted to explore antonyms in her book

S4 Episode 16: Carrie Jenkins talks about mental illness and its ability to silence

S4 Episode 15: Matt Rader talks about who Ghosthawk is and how it became the title of the book.

S4 Episode 14: Jordan Abel talks about how writing NISHGA impacted how he feels about home

S4 Episode 13: Ruth Ozeki talks about the role libraries have played in her life and her books

S4 Episode 12: Nancy Turner talks about what led her to ethnobotany

S4 Episode 11: David Robertson and Julie Flett talk about the power of their collaborations

S4 Episode 10: Darrel McLeod talks about memoir's ability to reclaim stories

S4 Episode 9: Barbara Nickel talks about sticking to the facts in Dear Peter, Dear Ulla

S4 Episode 8: The Honourable Janet Austin talks about how reading helps understand community.

S4 Episode 7: Tanya Christenson talks about tackling tough topics in her book A Soft Place to Fall

S4 Episode 6: shauna paull talks balancing creation and stillness in her creative process.

S4 Episode 5: Danielle Geller talks about happiness and endings in her book Dog Flowers

S4 Episode 4: Dawn Postnikoff and Joanne Sasvari talked about their cookbook Island Eats

S4 Episode 3: Cedar Bowers talks about how she explored womanhood in Astra

S4 Episode 2: Rahela Nayebzadah talks about how Monster Child was inspired by The Jade Peony

S4 Episode 1: Isabella talks about writing about place in her book Pebble Swing

S3 Episode 41: Shaena Lambert, Eve Lazarus and Michael Prior about writing the past

S3 Episode 40: Carol Shaben talks to Briony Penn and David McIllwraith about creative collaborations

S3 Episode 39: Rina Hadziev talks about the changing role of public libraries

S3 Episode 38: Carly Rigby talks about using Instagram to find a book community

S3 Episode 37: Hilary Atleo talks about genre fiction and Internet book retailers

S3 Episode 36: Zoe Grams talks about book publicity and publishing in BC and Yukon

S3 Episode 35: Kerry Clare talks about why we should be reading Canadian books

S3 Episode 34: Rob Bittner talks about how we LGBTQ literature in readers' hands

S3 Episode 33: The Commissioner of Yukon Angélique Bernard talks about the Borealis Prize

S3 Episode 32: Joanna Lilley talks about what inspired her to write poems about extinct species

S3 Episode 31: Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd on finding the music in storytelling

S3 Episode 30: Billy-Ray Belcourt talks about feeling vulnerable in essays

S3 Episode 29: Shaena Lambert talks about the role of imagination in creative writing

S3 Episode 28: Melanie Siebert talks about the need for decolonization in mental health practices

S3 Episode 27: Valerie Mason-John talks about the influence of James Baldwin on her writing

S3 Episode 26: Jordan Scott talks about maintaining a child-like wonder of language

S3 Episode 25: Joel Bakan talks The New Corporation and what scares corporations

S3 Episode 24: Rina Singh and Ellen Rooney discuss the real story that inspired Grandmother School

S3 Episode 23: Dan Bar-El on the characters in the Very, Very Far North series who are like him

S3 Episode 22: Briony Penn talks about the friendship with Cecil Paul that led to two books

S3 Episode 21: Annabel Lyon talks about how Crime and Punishment influenced her book

S3 Episode 20: David McIlwraith talks about the history of anti-Asian racism and erasure in BC

S3 Episode 19: Tanya Lloyd Kyi talks about youth activism and privacy in Me and Banksy

S3 Episode 18: Benjamin Perrin talks how writing about the opioid crisis changed him.

S3 Episode 17: Sara Cassidy talks about writing about the joy of eating in Genius Jolene

S3 Episode 16: Joseph Dandurand talks about the writing process for his books.

S3 Episode 15: Liz Levine talks about chasing the emotional thread of a story

S3 Episode 14: Grant Buday talks about the memorable characters that inspired his book

S3 Episode 13: Michael Prior talks about poetry as a medium for asking questions

S3 Episode 12: Bonnie Sherr Klein talks about representing disability in picture books

S3 Episode 11: Eva Holland talks about immersing herself in the science of fear

S3 Episode 10: Eve Lazarus talks about untold histories and giving a voice to victims

S3 Episode 9: Susan Sanford Blades talks about mother daughter relationships in Fake it So Real

S3 Episode 8: Linda Bailey, author of Princesses vs. Dinosaurs, talks about tropes in picture books

S3 Episode 7: Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians, talks about humor as a decolonizing tool

S3 Episode 6: Claudia Cornwall talks about the lasting effects of BC's 2017 forest fires

S3 Episode 5: Robert Amos talks about how E.J. Hughes documented BC's changing landscape

S3 Episode 4: Junie Désil talks about using source material in eat salt | gaze at the ocean

S3 Episode 3: Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes about writing high-low novels like Ride Home

S3 Episode 2: Aislinn Hunter talks disconnection and limbo in her novel The Certainites

S3 Episode 1: Danny Ramadan talks about food memories and home in Salma the Syrian Chef

S2 Episode 43: Angie Abdou talks about the writing community in the Kootenays

S2 Episode 42: Greg Bechtel talks about being at the Berton House for over a year

S2 Episode 41: Joanna Lilley talks about Yukon Words a new society focused on Yukon word artists

S2 Episode 40: Terri Potratz talks about Salt Spring Island's Paper Covers Rock Festival

S2 Episode 39: Leslie Hurtig talks about her favourite Vancouver Writers Fest moments

S2 Episode 38: Jonathan Manthorpe talks about the challenges he faced writing Claws of the Panda

S2 Episode 37: Ann-Marie Metten talks about the legacy of the Historic Joy Kogawa House

S2 Episode 36: Alix Ohlin talks about love stories, research and twinship

S2 Episode 35: Alex Van Tol talks about the challenges of working on the road and wild places

S2 Episode 34: Jennifer Croll talks about men in high heels and how men have used fashion to rebel

S2 Episode 33: Wendy Wickwire talks about the research that brought James Teit to life.

S2 Episode 32: Julia Nobel talks about how friendships are vital to the stories she writes.

S2 Episode 31: Bill Richardson talks about faith and Christmas as a backdrop for stories.

S2 Episode 30: Rhea Tregebov talks about how history and sisters helped form her novel.

S2 Episode 29: Rachel Wada talks about how her identity shapes her artistic practice.

S2 Episode 28: Joseph Dandurand talks about storytelling, sasquatch and sharing his work.

S2 Episode 27: Sara Cassidy talks about complicated parent-child relationships.

S2 Episode 26: Jessica McDiarmid talks about her journey to writing about the Highway of Tears.

S2 Episode 25: Alejandro Frid talks about the need for collaboration in how we face climate change.

S2 Episode 24: Aaron Chapman talks about Tommy Chong, Glory Days and telling the story of a place.

S2 Episode 23: Julie Flett talks about the approach she takes to tough subjects in her books.

S2 Episode 22: Steven Price talks about writing happy endings and the book that inspired Lampedusa.

S2 Episode 21: Nancy Vo talks about drawing inspiration from the Coen Brothers for her picture book.

S2 Episode 20: Sonnet L’Abbé talks about identity, belonging and erasure.

S2 Episode 19: Nazanine Hozar talks about the role mothers and daughters played in her book

S2 Episode 18: Eldon Yellowhorn talks about his activist history and how it influenced his book

S2 Episode 17: Chelene Knight talks about Breathing Space Creative and author care.

Writing The S2 Episode 16: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas talks how manga inspires his books

S2 Episode 15: Briony Penn talks about activism and finding comedy in nature

S2 Episode 14: Hazel Jane Plante talks about her love letter to art, pop culture and trans femmes.

S2 Episode 13: Bob Joseph talks about why he thinks reconciliation is alive in Canada

S2 Episode 12: Roy Henry Vickers & Lucky Budd talk about the power of storytelling and oral history

S2 Episode 11: Kayla Czaga talks about the role of the speaker in her poems and getting personal.

S2 Episode 10: Ivan Coyote talks about burnout, life on the road and literary Doritos.

S2 Episode 9: Francine Cunningham talks about understanding herself through writing.

S2 Episode 8: Sabina Khan talks about the importance of diverse stories

S2 Episode 7: Kyo Maclear talks getting lost in the research and collaborating with Julie Morstad

S2 Episode 6: Chantal Gibson talks about erasure and the portrayal of black women in culture.

S2 Episode 5: Emily Lycopolus talks about the popularity of regional cookbooks

S2 Episode 4: Helen Knott talks about writing her memoir and sitting in story

S2 Episode 3: Yasuko Thanh talks about the tricks our memories play on us

S2 Episode 2: Robin Stevenson talks about the history of reproductive rights in Canada and the US

S2 Episode 1: Michael Christie talks about writing an environmental novel you didn't plan

Episode 12: Harley Rustad talks about the characters behind one of Canada's famous trees

Community Voices Ep 01: Jess Johns Talks Growing Room 2020

Episode 11: Cale Atkinson Talks about his love of ghosts which led him to Sir Simon

Episode 10: Onjana Yawnghwe talks about how language shapes identity and whose stories we tell

Episode Nine: Kathy Page talks about complicated empathy and creating characters that challenge us

Episode Eight: Darrel McLeod talks about the healing power of storytelling and nature

Minisode one: Tara Borin on what makes the literary community in the Yukon special

Episode Seven: Eve Lazarus talks about giving voices to the victims who don't get a voice

Episode six: Alex Leslie talks about writing as an uninvited visitor

Episode Five: Monique Gray Smith talks about how she found healing in her new book.

Episode Four: Laisha Rosnau talks bringing past secrets into the present through writing.

Episode Three: Lindsay Wong talks about the unifying effect of dysfunctional families

Episode Two: Shazia Hafiz Ramji talks family, addiction and being vulnerble.

Episode One: featuring Megan Cole, Sean Cranbury, and Jane Davidson