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The rom-com is made new again, fresh and sparkling, in Rebecca Fisseha's ONLY BECAUSE IT'S YOU, a novel that takes the fake relationship/marriage trope and gives it real stakes, harnessed to actual situations that people live through all the time as relationships are complicated by factors like citizenship or visas. In ONLY BECAUSE IT'S YOU, the fake marriage is not just a lark, and Miz only agrees to it because she cares about her friend Kal so much, believes in his talents as an actor, and wants to help him have his big chance. Although being anchored in seriousness doesn't mean the novel isn't also a lot of fun. In our conversation, Fisseha talks about how writing scripts was great practice for rom-com dialogue, how she started writing without knowing her story was a rom-com at all, about what she learned from Jesse Q. Sutanto's DIAL A FOR AUNTIES about interiority, and also about how heavy topics can be handled and even illuminated with humour. Sometimes you need to take a leap of faith to land exactly where you're meant to be…Miz is not the marrying kind. She's more of the no-strings-attached kind. No labels, only fun. So, when she finds a diamond ring in her casual-but-very-hot hook-up's gym bag, she immediately ends things and runs.Kal is one of Miz's best friends, an aspiring actor who moved to Toronto from Ethiopia and is on the brink of his big break. But when he's suddenly at risk of having to return home and leave Toronto forever, Miz panics. She can't imagine her life without Kal.There's only one solution: Miz will marry Kal to become his spou­sal sponsor. He'll get to keep pursuing his acting career, and she'll get to keep her best friend in the city. It'll be a quick, short only-on-paper marriage between friends, followed by a quick, easy divorce. Nothing will change, and life will go back to normal. Right?Rebecca Fisseha is an Ethiopian-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Daughters of Silence, as well as short stories, creative non-fiction, and personal essays that appear in various publications, including the anthology Addis Ababa Noir and Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Rebecca is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, the Vancouver Film School, and an alumnus of the TIFF Writers' Studio. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kerryreads.substack.com/subscribe

Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution. She uses her position as a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai to find books, has one friend she can trust, and is tormented by her older brother. After being involved in the violence of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, she loses hope in China and raises Lin, her daughter, to pursue a life in the West. Both Lemai and Lin suffer from unnamed mental anguish at various points in their life and are both haunted by the past. In Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Toronto, they grapple with people from their former lives, and Lin's attempts at erasing her Chinese identity nearly make her go mad. This is a passionate debut novel about the mother-daughter bond, Chinese cultural identity, and the struggles of being a foreigner in America. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer, born and raised in Shanghai. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire's Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest. Her plays have been performed in various festivals and theatres across Canada. More essays and fiction are forthcoming in the Toronto Star, Electric Literature, Hamilton Review of Books, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, 49th Shelf, etc. Su is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Canadian Authors Association. She devotes her interstices of time between writing and a full-time job to reading, playing the piano, nature walks, and wrestling with her children. Connect with her at https://www.instagram.com/suchangwrites/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution. She uses her position as a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai to find books, has one friend she can trust, and is tormented by her older brother. After being involved in the violence of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, she loses hope in China and raises Lin, her daughter, to pursue a life in the West. Both Lemai and Lin suffer from unnamed mental anguish at various points in their life and are both haunted by the past. In Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Toronto, they grapple with people from their former lives, and Lin's attempts at erasing her Chinese identity nearly make her go mad. This is a passionate debut novel about the mother-daughter bond, Chinese cultural identity, and the struggles of being a foreigner in America. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer, born and raised in Shanghai. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire's Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest. Her plays have been performed in various festivals and theatres across Canada. More essays and fiction are forthcoming in the Toronto Star, Electric Literature, Hamilton Review of Books, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, 49th Shelf, etc. Su is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Canadian Authors Association. She devotes her interstices of time between writing and a full-time job to reading, playing the piano, nature walks, and wrestling with her children. Connect with her at https://www.instagram.com/suchangwrites/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley's highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, where we witness Shakespeare struggling through a midlife crisis while trying to win a national play competition to secure the King's business. Hilarious hijinks ensue, with whip-smart dialogue and a captivating tale that touches on salient social issues that persist today, including equality, justice, and censorship. Humour and incisive wit combine to create a compulsively readable and thought-provoking novel from this Leacock Award long-listed author. We know RuFF will be a favourite book of the year for many. More About RuFF: Rod Carley is back with another theatrical odyssey packed with an unforgettable cast of Elizabethan eccentrics. It's a madcap world more modern than tomorrow where gender is what a person makes of it (no matter the story beneath their petticoats or tights). Will Shakespeare is having a very bad year. Suffering from a mid-life crisis, a plague outbreak, and the death of the ancient Queen, Will's mettle is put to the test when the new King puts his witch-burning hobby aside to announce a national play competition that will determine which theatre company will secure his favour and remain in business. As he struggles to write a Scottish supernatural thriller, Will faces one ruff and puffy obstacle after another including a young rival punk poet and his activist-wife fighting for equality and a woman's right to tread the boards. Will and his band of misfits must ensure not only their own survival, but that of England as well. The stage is set for an outrageous and compelling tale of ghosts, ghostwriting, writer's block, and the chopping block. Ruffly based on a true story. About Rod Carley: Rod is the award-winning author of three previous works of literary fiction: GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour, 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES, a Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy, and long listed for the ReLit Group Awards for Best Short Fiction of 2023); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines including Broadview (winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence for Best Seasonal Article from the Associated Church Press), Cloud Lake Literary, Blank Spaces, Exile, HighGrader, and the anthology 150 Years Up North and More. He was a finalist for the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize. Rod was the 2009 winner of TVO's Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition for his lecture entitled “Adapting Shakespeare within a Modern Canadian Context. He is a proud alumnus of the Humber School for Writers and is represented by Carolyn Forde, Senior Literary Agent with The Transatlantic Agency. www.rodcarley.ca. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley's highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, where we witness Shakespeare struggling through a midlife crisis while trying to win a national play competition to secure the King's business. Hilarious hijinks ensue, with whip-smart dialogue and a captivating tale that touches on salient social issues that persist today, including equality, justice, and censorship. Humour and incisive wit combine to create a compulsively readable and thought-provoking novel from this Leacock Award long-listed author. We know RuFF will be a favourite book of the year for many. More About RuFF: Rod Carley is back with another theatrical odyssey packed with an unforgettable cast of Elizabethan eccentrics. It's a madcap world more modern than tomorrow where gender is what a person makes of it (no matter the story beneath their petticoats or tights). Will Shakespeare is having a very bad year. Suffering from a mid-life crisis, a plague outbreak, and the death of the ancient Queen, Will's mettle is put to the test when the new King puts his witch-burning hobby aside to announce a national play competition that will determine which theatre company will secure his favour and remain in business. As he struggles to write a Scottish supernatural thriller, Will faces one ruff and puffy obstacle after another including a young rival punk poet and his activist-wife fighting for equality and a woman's right to tread the boards. Will and his band of misfits must ensure not only their own survival, but that of England as well. The stage is set for an outrageous and compelling tale of ghosts, ghostwriting, writer's block, and the chopping block. Ruffly based on a true story. About Rod Carley: Rod is the award-winning author of three previous works of literary fiction: GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour, 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES, a Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy, and long listed for the ReLit Group Awards for Best Short Fiction of 2023); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines including Broadview (winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence for Best Seasonal Article from the Associated Church Press), Cloud Lake Literary, Blank Spaces, Exile, HighGrader, and the anthology 150 Years Up North and More. He was a finalist for the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize. Rod was the 2009 winner of TVO's Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition for his lecture entitled “Adapting Shakespeare within a Modern Canadian Context. He is a proud alumnus of the Humber School for Writers and is represented by Carolyn Forde, Senior Literary Agent with The Transatlantic Agency. www.rodcarley.ca. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley's highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, where we witness Shakespeare struggling through a midlife crisis while trying to win a national play competition to secure the King's business. Hilarious hijinks ensue, with whip-smart dialogue and a captivating tale that touches on salient social issues that persist today, including equality, justice, and censorship. Humour and incisive wit combine to create a compulsively readable and thought-provoking novel from this Leacock Award long-listed author. We know RuFF will be a favourite book of the year for many. More About RuFF: Rod Carley is back with another theatrical odyssey packed with an unforgettable cast of Elizabethan eccentrics. It's a madcap world more modern than tomorrow where gender is what a person makes of it (no matter the story beneath their petticoats or tights). Will Shakespeare is having a very bad year. Suffering from a mid-life crisis, a plague outbreak, and the death of the ancient Queen, Will's mettle is put to the test when the new King puts his witch-burning hobby aside to announce a national play competition that will determine which theatre company will secure his favour and remain in business. As he struggles to write a Scottish supernatural thriller, Will faces one ruff and puffy obstacle after another including a young rival punk poet and his activist-wife fighting for equality and a woman's right to tread the boards. Will and his band of misfits must ensure not only their own survival, but that of England as well. The stage is set for an outrageous and compelling tale of ghosts, ghostwriting, writer's block, and the chopping block. Ruffly based on a true story. About Rod Carley: Rod is the award-winning author of three previous works of literary fiction: GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour, 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES, a Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy, and long listed for the ReLit Group Awards for Best Short Fiction of 2023); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines including Broadview (winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence for Best Seasonal Article from the Associated Church Press), Cloud Lake Literary, Blank Spaces, Exile, HighGrader, and the anthology 150 Years Up North and More. He was a finalist for the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize. Rod was the 2009 winner of TVO's Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition for his lecture entitled “Adapting Shakespeare within a Modern Canadian Context. He is a proud alumnus of the Humber School for Writers and is represented by Carolyn Forde, Senior Literary Agent with The Transatlantic Agency. www.rodcarley.ca. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

Renée D. Bondy taught in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor, where she facilitated courses on queer activism, women and religion, and the history of women's movements. Her writing has appeared in Herizons, Bitch, Bearings Online, and the Humber Literary Review. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Renée lives in Chatham, Ontario, and the book is inspired by events that happened there. [non]disclosure published by Second Story Press is her first novel. https://secondstorypress.ca/collections/renee-d-bondy

In this episode, Dr. T hosts an interview between author Rita Bozi and guest interviewer Matt Russell, as Truth Fairy is unfortunately absent. Rita Bozi is a highly experienced trauma-informed facilitator, psychedelic therapist, author, and director of Brilliant Healing, In. Matt Russell is a private practice psychotherapist and scholar with a background in Spanish Literature and intergenerational trauma studies. Matt interviews Rita about her novel “When I Was Better” which is based on her parents' experiences during and after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, blending personal and historical narratives to explore themes of trauma, survival, and healing.Rita shares her journey in writing the novel, describing it as a complex and healing process that took nine years and ten drafts to complete. Initially, she was loyal to the real-life events of her family's history, struggling to fictionalize the story, but eventually embraced creative freedom which allowed her to deepen her characters and more fully explore their experiences. The process also involved confronting and processing her own anger and trauma, facilitated by psychedelic therapies with ayahuasca and ketamine. Through these experiences, Rita was able to soften her portrayal of her parents, bringing a more nuanced and empathetic view to their characters in her novel.Matt, Rita, and Dr. T delve into the significance of the Hungarian Revolution and Rita explains the profound impact of these events on her family and her need to understand and portray this historical and emotional landscape accurately. The interview touches on broader themes of intergenerational trauma and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of oppression, highlighting the importance of kindness and empathy in healing. Through the novel, Rita aims to honor her parents' struggles while exploring the broader human capacity for both cruelty and compassion.“But it wasn't until I sat with ketamine that I felt into my essential nature and that my essential nature was kindness. And from there I started to build a practice around kindness and I started to decolonize. I started to understand what does it mean to decolonize this brutality, so that then I could, instead of commanding people or … demanding change and demanding that people heal or demand that people behave a certain way, I started to understand more deeply that we behave the way we do because of what's happened to us. In understanding that and understanding, you know, what really happened to my parents, what really happened to my brother, what really happened to my ancestors, and embodying that… then I could start developing a sense of kindness, you know?” - Rita Bozi__About Rita Bozi:Raised by Hungarian refugees, Rita is a Somatic Relational trauma and psychedelic-informed Facilitator, a multidisciplinary creator, playwright, and retired professional actor and dancer. For 25 years, her co-written play ‘52 Pick Up' was staged in Canada, the US, England, Australia, France, Iceland and New Zealand and translated into French and Icelandic. Rita has been published in The New Quarterly, FFWD Weekly, WritingRaw.com, and Unlikely 2.0. THIS Magazine awarded her 3rd Prize in their Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2012. Her travel stories have been broadcast on CBC Radio Calgary. She is an Alumna of The Humber School for Writers and a graduate of The National Ballet School. Her life practice is kindness and her life partner is Ken Cameron.Website: BrilliantHealingSystems.comBook: “When I Was Better” by Rita Bozi About Matt Russell:Matt Russell is a graduate of the MAPS MDMA Assisted Therapy Training. As a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, he trained with world renowned addiction and trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté. He is also part of the facilitation team supporting Dr. Maté in the year-long Compassionate Inquiry training for therapists.Matt has trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Buddhist Chaplaincy. He teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and his therapeutic work incorporates mindfulness and somatic/body-based methods of inquiry. Prior to becoming certified as a psychotherapist, Matt earned a PhD in Spanish Literature from UC Davis, where he researched intergenerational trauma, and taught at various universities.Contact Matt Russell__ Contact Punk Therapy:Patreon: Patreon.com/PunkTherapyWebsite: PunkTherapy.comEmail: info@punktherapy.com

My guest on this episode is Denise Da Costa. Denise is an author and visual artist who studied Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is an alumna of the Humber School of Writers and the Diaspora Dialogues mentorship program. Her debut novel, And the Walls Came Down, was published in 2023 by Dundurn Press. Author Zalika Reid-Benta called And the Walls Came Down  “a beautiful exploration of memory and perception and will linger in the minds of readers long after they've finished." Denise and I talk about how she learned the public side of being a writer reciting poetry in church as a child, how her colleagues in the corporate sales world reacted to the launch of her first book, and how she is looking forward to having written and published enough books that she starts to forget what's in each of them.   Denise Da Costa: denisedacostaauthor.com Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission. Contact Nathan Whitlock at nathanwhitlock.ca/contact

Shane Joseph will be revisiting Fika with Vicky this week, as we focus on two more of his novels, The Ulysses Man and Milltown. Never afraid to delve into the difficult subjects with gritty realism, Shane Joseph takes us into the lives of Sri Lanka immigrants forging new lives in Canada while healing old traumas and facing new challenges. He understands what he writes, The Ulysses Man being an autobiographical novel, and takes us to a place of more understanding. Shane's Bio Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. Shane's second novel, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, released in 2009, won the Write Canada Award for best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated, he has a monthly column in The Sri Lankan Anchorman journal, and is the Book Reviews Editor for Devour Art & Lit Magazine. His most recent novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in September 2022. Shane is the owner and publisher of Blue Denim Press (www.bluedenimpress.com), a literary press he founded in 2011. He is responsible for editing, formatting, cover design, production, distribution, and promotion at his press. To date, the press has published over 40 titles (fiction and non-fiction) in paperback and e-book formats. In particular, Shane loves editing to release the story from within the words. More details on Shane's work, blog and book reviews can be found on his website at www.shanejoseph.com. He maintains an active presence on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linked-In, Twitter and Goodreads. He has a growing collection of YouTube videos produced by him on book launches and author discussions.

Shane Joseph will be revisiting Fika with Vicky this week, as we focus on two more of his novels, The Ulysses Man and Milltown. Never afraid to delve into the difficult subjects with gritty realism, Shane Joseph takes us into the lives of Sri Lanka immigrants forging new lives in Canada while healing old traumas and facing new challenges. He understands what he writes, The Ulysses Man being an autobiographical novel, and takes us to a place of more understanding. Shane's Bio Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. Shane's second novel, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, released in 2009, won the Write Canada Award for best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated, he has a monthly column in The Sri Lankan Anchorman journal, and is the Book Reviews Editor for Devour Art & Lit Magazine. His most recent novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in September 2022. Shane is the owner and publisher of Blue Denim Press (www.bluedenimpress.com), a literary press he founded in 2011. He is responsible for editing, formatting, cover design, production, distribution, and promotion at his press. To date, the press has published over 40 titles (fiction and non-fiction) in paperback and e-book formats. In particular, Shane loves editing to release the story from within the words. More details on Shane's work, blog and book reviews can be found on his website at www.shanejoseph.com. He maintains an active presence on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linked-In, Twitter and Goodreads. He has a growing collection of YouTube videos produced by him on book launches and author discussions.

Fika with Vicky's guest this week is Shane Joseph. We'll be focusing on his novels Empire in the Sand and Circles in Spiral, as well as delving into the story of his Blue Denim Press. Yes, Virginia. There are still publishers that accept manuscripts without an agent. Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. Shane's second novel, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, released in 2009, won the Write Canada Award for best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated, he has a monthly column in The Sri Lankan Anchorman journal, and is the Book Reviews Editor for Devour Art & Lit Magazine. His most recent novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in September 2022. Shane is the owner and publisher of Blue Denim Press (www.bluedenimpress.com), a literary press he founded in 2011. He is responsible for editing, formatting, cover design, production, distribution, and promotion at his press. To date, the press has published over 40 titles (fiction and non-fiction) in paperback and e-book formats. In particular, Shane loves editing to release the story from within the words. More details on Shane's work, blog and book reviews can be found on his website at www.shanejoseph.com. He maintains an active presence on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linked-In, Twitter and Goodreads. He has a growing collection of YouTube videos produced by him on book launches and author discussions.

Fika with Vicky's guest this week is Shane Joseph. We'll be focusing on his novels Empire in the Sand and Circles in Spiral, as well as delving into the story of his Blue Denim Press. Yes, Virginia. There are still publishers that accept manuscripts without an agent. Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. He is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. Shane's second novel, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, released in 2009, won the Write Canada Award for best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over the world. His blog at www.shanejoseph.com is widely syndicated, he has a monthly column in The Sri Lankan Anchorman journal, and is the Book Reviews Editor for Devour Art & Lit Magazine. His most recent novel, Empire in the Sand, was released in September 2022. Shane is the owner and publisher of Blue Denim Press (www.bluedenimpress.com), a literary press he founded in 2011. He is responsible for editing, formatting, cover design, production, distribution, and promotion at his press. To date, the press has published over 40 titles (fiction and non-fiction) in paperback and e-book formats. In particular, Shane loves editing to release the story from within the words. More details on Shane's work, blog and book reviews can be found on his website at www.shanejoseph.com. He maintains an active presence on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linked-In, Twitter and Goodreads. He has a growing collection of YouTube videos produced by him on book launches and author discussions.

In the novel, Stillwater, by noted Canadian writer, Darcie Friesen Hossack, sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother. In this conversation with her, profound Adventist author Trudy Morgan-Cole, joins me as we explore food, religion, Canadian regional lit, and what it's like to create Adventist characters.  Darcie Friesen Hossack is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers with roots in the Mennonite and Seventh-day Adventist communities. A career food writer and editor of the online WordCity Literary Journal, her short story collection, Mennonites Don't Dance (Thistledown Press), was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 92 of The Johnny Rogers Show I talk with stand up comedian Garrett Jamieson. His choice of word for the episode was capitulate, we dive into his own experiences surrendering to new life experiences and his obsession with words like capitulate. We also talk about Garrett starting comedy, his worst on stage bomb, his favorite show ever, what it was like to work on the show Heavy Metal Hitchhiker, his comedy influences and so much more. Garrett Jamieson has been professionally performing Comedy for over a decade. Graduating from The Humber School of Comedy he is one of the founding members of the Canadian Award Winning sketch troupe (skit gang) "The BOOM" Garrett is currently part of the Comedy Records family which is Canada's first comedy record label (www.ComedyRecords.ca). His “Stand Up Musical” style comedy with the band Sprattacus saw his debut album “SuperDrunkGnome” nominated for Best Comedy Album. “Garrett Jamieson and Sprattacus” won a Canadian Comedy Award for best Variety Act. Be sure to check out their second live album “Born Crying Die Laughing” Most recently Garrett & Sprattacus just released an album called “Hellooo & Happy Holidays” with Raptors voice Jack Armstrong. Get into the holiday spirit today. Proceeds go to Special Olympics Canada. Garrett has toured internationally performing comedy (Europe/Australia/South East Asia/USA) and been a part of numerous comedy festivals both as a stand up and sketch performer. He can also be seen opening for Juno winning metallic noise rock band, KEN mode. You can also catch him on CBC Comedy with his own web series called “THAT GUY”, and check him out on Sirius XM, MTV Canada, MUCH, Comedy Network, Etalk Canada and The Hard Times News. Lastly checkout “Heavy Metal Hitchhiker” web series with Banger Films. EP #92 - The Johnny Rogers Show LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE: PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Thejohnnyrogers APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-johnny-rogers-show/id1652119790 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SeYAHbIbsxTf8UChBAUIy YOUTUBE: /@TheJohnnyRogersShow + everywhere podcasts are available Follow Garrett on social media https://www.garrettjamieson.com/ https://www.instagram.com/gjpartyhugs/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdjp8mJ5S8 (Heavy Metal Hitchhiker) Follow Johnny Rogers on social media https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyrogersshow/ https://www.twitter.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.facebook.com/TheJohnnyRogers https://www.tiktok.com/@johnnylatenight https://www.twitch.tv/thejohnnyrogers https://www.spoti.fi/3uGt9U9

Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it.Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a closed door or written in a notebook stowed away. Cassandra has always been curious, and when a death in the family means she has to return home to Toronto, it seems like the perfect opportunity to finally discover what it is that no one else will talk about.But uncovering the past will never be easy when it has stayed hidden for so long. And with every new revelation, Cassandra realises that there is a reason that her family has never been good at grieving…A powerful meditation on memory and loss, Wild Fires is a beautifully crafted novel from a stunning new literary voice.Sophie Jai's debut novel WILD FIRES was the winner of the 2019 Borough Press x The Good Literary Agency Prize. The novel is shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and was longlisted for the 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. Jai has been a Writer-in-Residence & Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and an Artist-in-Residence at Sangam House in India. She is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers where she studied under Olive Senior. She is currently working on her second novel of short stories at the University of Oxford. 

This week on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Jessica Hamilton. Jessica was born in Australia but grew up in Canada. She has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, Taiwan, India and Japan. She studied writing at the Humber School for Writers as well as George Brown College. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband, son, and daughter. Her debut novel is titled What You Never Knew, her second novel titled, Don't You Dare, are both thrillers and published by Crooked Lane Books. Copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio network #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #jessicahamilton #dontyoudare #crookedlanebooks

This week on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Jessica Hamilton. Jessica was born in Australia but grew up in Canada. She has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, Taiwan, India and Japan. She studied writing at the Humber School for Writers as well as George Brown College. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband, son, and daughter. Her debut novel is titled What You Never Knew, her second novel titled, Don't You Dare, are both thrillers and published by Crooked Lane Books. Copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio network #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #jessicahamilton #dontyoudare #crookedlanebooks

This week on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Jessica Hamilton. Jessica was born in Australia but grew up in Canada. She has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, Taiwan, India and Japan. She studied writing at the Humber School for Writers as well as George Brown College. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband, son, and daughter. Her debut novel is titled What You Never Knew, her second novel titled, Don't You Dare, are both thrillers and published by Crooked Lane Books. Copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio network #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #jessicahamilton #dontyoudare #crookedlanebooks

Nan Williamson is a teacher, artist and author living in Peterborough. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, 2013. Her chapbook, leave the door open for the moon, was published by Jackson Creek Press in 2015. Always interested in the verbal-visual connection, she plays with shapes, colours, and texture to wed form and content in paint and poetry. More than 80 of her poems have been published in juried literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and the UK. Her poem, Interlude was one of six set to music by Alain Keyser for her album, One Sky, 2017 She is also the illustrator for Delicate Impact, a Canadian anthology of poetry, A Beret Days Book, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2018. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

Catherine Graham's book Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric *Finalist for the Trillium Book Award* *Finalist for the Toronto Book Awards* now out with Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books. The Most Cunning Heart (novel), Spring 2022, Palimpsest Press. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We're Dead: New and Selected appears Spring 2023, Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books. Graham now lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches creative writing, mentors privately, leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors Book Club, is an interviewer for Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts / Toronto International Festival of Authors By the Lake Book Club and the Writers' Trust of Canada The Re-Read. She is also an Editor for Watch Your Head and the anthology Watch Your Head: Responding to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books). Graham, along with Jessica Outram, hosts The Hummingbird Podcast: Conversation & Inspiration. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram and The Hummingbird Podcast. What do you think about the podcast so far? I would love to hear from you. Drop me a message here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

On this week's show I sit down and talk to Rob Trick. Rob was one of my teachers when I was at The Humber School of Comedy and taught me a lot about listening to your inner self and to take risks when you perform.Rob now is a Comedy Coach and continues to help people grow and become better performers and speakers.Rob's Link:https://www.facebook.com/robtrickcomedycoachArtwork: The Great Geraldohttps://www.instagram.com/the_great_geraldoMusic: Mikey Bingo Beats https://www.instagram.com/mikeybingobeatshttps://www.instagram.com/signsbybaker

Hi friends, Today I am Arts Calling Norm Reynolds! Norm Reynolds is a Toronto-based playwright and actor. He is adapting Anne Tyler's "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" for the stage. “An October Crisis” is slated for the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival. "Gay Positive" was short-listed for the Short & Sweet Festival (Sydney, Australia). "Two-Hander" played at the inaugural Newmarket National Ten Minute Play Festival. A hit at the first Summerworks Festival (CBC Radio, NOW Magazine), "Put Up Your Hand" was performed by the author in Toronto at the Red SandCastle Theatre. "The Good-bye Play" was staged at the Playwrights of Spring Festival and at TheatreStarts (Aurora, Ontario); it was originally workshopped at the Humber School for Writers with Edward Albee. Reynolds has published short fiction in the United States and Canada, and book reviews in the Canadian national press. He is a thirty year member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Norm's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/13LPH Check out Norm's work on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/47644/norm-reynolds The Playwrights Guild of Canada: https://playwrightsguild.ca/paupress/profile/norm-reynolds/view/ Tune in for Craft Bites this February 18th 1pm! https://playwrightsguild.ca/craft-bites-event-page/ Norm's Blog: https://adaylikealldays.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NormReyn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nreyn21/ Thanks again for your time, Norm. Looking forward to continuing our conversation in the future!! j -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. If you like the show: consider reviewing and sharing the podcast, your support truly makes a difference! Check us out for more podcasts about the arts and original content! Make art. Much love, j

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Joanna Lilley. Joanna is a Yukon poet who won the 2021 Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution. In their conversation Joanna shares her reaction to hearing she'd won the Borealis Prize, and her advice to writers trying to get their work published. ABOUT JOANNA LILLEY: Joanna Lilley's fifth book and third poetry collection, Endlings, was published by Turnstone Press in 2020 and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Joanna is also the author of a novel, Worry Stones (Ronsdale Press), which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, and a short story collection, The Birthday Books (Hagios Press). Joanna's other poetry collections are If There Were Roads (Turnstone Press), and The Fleece Era (Brick Books) which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Joanna has an MLitt degree in creative writing from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and is a Humber School for Writers graduate. Born in the south of England, Joanna lived in Wales and Scotland before moving to Canada and has given reading and workshops as far afield as Alaska and Iceland. She now lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she's on the board of Yukon Words and is very grateful to reside on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in The Puritan, Untethered, Invisible publishing's invisiblog, This Magazine and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book titled Head Over Feet: The Lasting Heartache of First Loves. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the traditional territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

For our 16th episode, I sit down with novelist, actor, director & professor Rod Carley to talk about the practices he incorporates into his day to channel his creativity. We discuss leadership, the creative process, released and upcoming novels, the joy of teaching, his journey as an artist and the real value of finding your authentic voice. Rod Carley's second novel, KINMOUNT, won the Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the 2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards and was one of ten books long-listed for the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medallion for Humour. His first novel, A Matter of Will, was a finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in Cloud Lake Literary, Blank Spaces Magazine, the non-fiction anthology 150 Years Up North and More, and HighGrader Magazine. Latitude 46 Publishing is releasing his new interconnected collection of short stories, GRIN REAPING, in the Summer of 2022. Rod is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and is currently the Artistic Director of the Acting for Stage and Screen Program for Canadore College. He recently directed All in the Timing for Theatre Canadore. He is also a part-time English professor at Nipissing University. Rod has directed over 125 productions to date, both nationally and internationally, ranging from the classics to the development of new Canadian work. He was the 2009 winner of TVO's Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition. Rod was the first recipient of the Stratford Festival's Jean Gascon Director's Award and received four Tyrone Guthrie Awards over his career. Film/television acting credits include 3 seasons on Hard Rock Medical (TVO), Cardinal (CTV), and Carter (Sony Pictures). He was inducted into the North Bay Musicians and Entertainers Hall of Recognition in 2015. Please Enjoy! Help support Richard Fortin Presents by sponsoring us on our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/richardfortinpresents) to allow us to continue sharing the stories of those who are re-shaping the entertainment industry. Richard Fortin Presents is a video and podcast show for, and about, the people re-shaping the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY and making, creating, producing impactful ART work. Shot and Edited by Darren Summersby Connect with Richard Fortin Presents: INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/richardfortinpresents/ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/richardfortinpresents BLOG: http://www.rfpmedia.org/richardfortinpresents PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/richardfortinpresents YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgcruSPw-t3E8UifSB-VM7A PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/richardfortinpresents EMAIL: info@rfpmedia.org

We are joined by David Bezmozgis on the podcast this week. David is an award winning author, the host of the writing podcast Love and Defiance, and the creative director of the Humber School for Writers, and he speaks to us about all avenues of his career. He tells us about the different writing opportunities he's had, how he got involved in the Humber School for Writers and what the mentor-based program involves, and he tells us about his podcast and how he hopes it can inspire aspiring writers. Learn more about this episode!

For the inaugural edition of the podcast I have a very special guest. One of the biggest names in Canadian stand-up comedy, as well as someone I am happy to call my friend, Nikki Payne! Nikki Payne was educated at Truro Community College, Humber School of Comedy and The Second City Conservatory. Nikki's comedy work has earned her accolades. She is the recipient of 3 Canadian Comedy Awards as best stand-up newcomer in 2003 and as best female stand-up for 2005 and 2008. She was nominated twice for Gemini Awards. She has appeared on CTV's Comedy Inc special, in Nikki Payne's Funtime Show, The National Film Board of Canada's The Next Big Thing and Much Music's Video on Trial. She was also semi-finalist on the American television show The Last Comic Standing and currently the voice of Becky on Teletoons "Bagel and Becky" In this Episode Nikki tells us about... Overcoming destructive thinking and how to stand out The ups and downs of stand-up comedy Defining success for yourself The importance of enjoying what you do and fun How to produce material when you don't really have ideas How Nikki walked away from what others might have thought was success in Toronto and Los Angeles

Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto's Portuguese community and attended The Humber School for Writers and now heads the English department and directs the creative writing program at a high school for the arts. His latest novel is "Children of the Moon," an historical drama set in Tanzania and Portuguese-controlled Mozambique. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three sons.

Originally from Stittsville, Ontario, Jessica Fitzpatrick is an actor, writer and comedian, currently living in Toronto. She is an honors graduate of the Humber School for Comedy Writing and Performance in Toronto, Ontario, where she received the prestigious Brian Linehan Scholarship Award in 2011. Jessica is best known for her high-energy characters and over the top physicality. She has toured around Canada with her self-created solo show Cupidity, which made a stop at the Atlantic Fringe Festival last year and received fantastic reviews. @iamjessfitz

Garrett Jamieson: Once worked at a dirt factory, funeral home and pornography store, he left Winnipeg (murder capital of Canada/also referred to as Winterpeg) to set the comedy wheels in motion. Graduating from The Humber School of Comedy he is one of the founding members of the Canadian Award Winning sketch troupe "The BOOM" Garrett is currently part of the Comedy Records family which is Canada's first comedy record label Comedy Records. He has toured internationally performing comedy (Europe/Australia/South East Asia/USA) and been a part of numerous comedy festivals both as a stand up and sketch performer. He can also be seen opening for Gemini award winning metallic noise rock band, KEN mode. You can catch him at the IceBreakers Comedy festival January 25th in Niagara on the lake. www.GarrettJamieson.com

DAN GALEA is a Toronto Based Comedian who hosts and produces a Variety/Talk Show at The Rec Room in Toronto called The DG Special Live!. He has done shows in Montreal, LA, New York and Vancouver. He has worked with some of the top names in Canadian and American Comedy Including Don Ferguson, Judah Freidlander, Will Sasso, The Kids in The Hall and many more. Dan Started off at the Humber School of comedy where he was voted funniest over-all by his peers. He was a founding member of The Sketchersons, Founder/producer/Head writer of the The Boom which had 4 years of sold out shows at the Supermarket in Kensington Market. Now Dan is currently the producer and creator of Primo. He's been on tv too, on shows like Much Music's Video On Trial, CBC/Comedy Central's Crawford, Cocktails, Rookie Blue, Cock'd Gunns, Comedy Bar (The Show) and Pure Pwnage! Dan Galea's website @TheRealDanGalea