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In this episode of the Thriving Authors Podcast, I had the pleasure of talking with author Traci Skuce about what she calls the impossible longing – the thing that drives us, but it doesn't resolve. It's a fascinating, layered approach to dive into the emotional heart of your characters. Whether you are writing fiction or a memoir, I think you'll really appreciate Traci's insights as she shares: The deeper motivations driving your characters' actions. Why what they want isn't enough and how to tap into the deep ache that drives their journey. Ways to explore the concept of longing in your writing. Rituals you can use to not dwell in that impossible longing for too long. Tuning into this basic human desire to belong to something that is greater than us is really key to connecting the reader to your characters on a deep and meaningful level. And remember, my new book comes out next week! Pre-order your signed copy of YOUR BOOK MATTERS on or before December 4, 2023 and get bonus gifts like a printable calendar with fun star stickers that you can use to give yourself credit for all of your writing days and keep track of your progress, bookmarks, affirmations and meditations that I've recorded and even a 1:1 call with me. Go to bit.ly/preorderyourbookmatters for all the info. About Traci: Traci Skuce lives, writes, and swims on the traditional and unceded territories of the Sahtloot, Sasitla, Ieeksun and Puntledge peoples. Her work has appeared in several literary journals throughout North America.  In April 2020, her short story collection, Hunger Moon, was released by NeWest Press and was a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Also, in 2020, Traci founded The Writing Journey, an online creative writing school for fiction and memoir writers who want to finish their stories and get them out into the world. Connect with her on Instagram at @traciskuce.thewritingjourney --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dallas-woodburn/support

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest" and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for “An Important Failure.” NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013. Her latest novel, ARBOREALITY, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in Windsor. https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/arboreality-by-rebecca-campbell/Featuring Brittni Brinn:Brittni Brinn writes science fiction. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from UWindsor. Her interests include rocks kicked up by the ocean, books from friends, and comfortable sweaters. She lives in a tower and sometimes a cottage with her husband and two cats in Nova Scotia. Her latest book is Where Long Shadows End, third in her series, The Patch Project. https://brittniinink.wordpress.com/

My guest is Frances Peck, who was an editor and ghostwriter for 30 years, but last year began her career as a novelist, with The Broken Places, published by NeWest Press. The novel received much praise and excellent reviews. Her second novel will be published later this year. We talk a little about ghostwriting, but mostly about her novel, how she engages with book clubs, and about literary fiction generally.Frances Peck's Site https://francespeck.com/NeWest Press https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the-broken-places

In this episode of the podcast, I connect with Meaghan to talk about some of her 2022 cycling highlights, including the World 24-Hour Time Trial Championships, The trans Continental Race and Mallorca 312. Meaghan Hackinen is a bikepacker, writer and adventure seeker cyclist from Kelowna, BC, whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico's high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe's highest paved roads. She is a 4X Everester as well as wells as a Transcontinental Race, Trans Am Bike Race, NorthCape4000, Alberta-Rockies700, and Paris-Brest-Paris brevet finisher. Meaghan holds the women's FKT for The Big Lonely, BC Epic 1000, and World 24-Hour Time Trial Championships. Her debut travel memoir, South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (NeWest Press, 2019) was shortlisted for two Canadian book awards; her upcoming memoir about competing in the Trans Am Bike Race is forthcoming from NeWest Press in late 2023.Meg is always a joy to talk with and I hope you enjoy this conversation.Save 15% at Redshift Sports when you use the code MB40Save 50% off your first month of coaching at Cycling 101 when you use the code MB40 at checkout.Save 25% at Dynamic Cyclist when you use the promo code MB40 at checkout.Thanks to Blivet Sports for their support.Visit Rollingdale CycleThanks to Ottalaus Inc. for their support.Thanks to Spandex Panda for their support.Thanks to Lakeside Bikes in Invermere for supporting me!

Pam catches up with Gray Television's Jon Decker in Washington. Along with protests, there is a new White House Press Secretary to meet

As part two of ShortCuts 2.9 Situating Sound—and as one of the many remembrances of Stó:lō writer and activist Lee Maracle—this ShortCuts explores how the archive remembers and who these memories serve. The audio recording for this episode is a 1988 recording of Lee Maracle and Dionne Brand, recorded for broadcast on Gerry Gilbert's radio program “radiofreerainforest” (Vancouver Coop Radio; SFU Digitized Collections). Building towards Maracle's reading of the poem “Perseverance,” producer Katherine McLeod selects audio clips from this recording in which we can hear feminist placemaking in action.  EPISODE NOTESA fresh take on sounds from the past, ShortCuts is a monthly feature on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed and an extension of the ShortCuts blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of ShortCuts on alternate fortnights (that's every second week) following the monthly SpokenWeb podcast episode.Producer: Katherine McLeodHost: Hannah McGregorSupervising Producer: Judith Burr AUDIO CLIPSAll audio in this episode is from the Gerry Gilbert radiofreerainforest Collection, held at Simon Fraser University and part of SFU's Digitized Collections. RESOURCESMaracle, Lee. I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996. Maracle, Lee. Memory Serves: Oratories. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli. NeWest Press, 2015. “radiofreerainforest 3 & 28 July and 7 August, 1988.” Gerry Gilbert radiofreerainforest Collection. SFU Digitized Collections. https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/radiofreerainforest-357/radiofreerainforest-3-28-july-and-7-august-1988 “ShortCuts 2.9: Situating Sound.” The SpokenWeb Podcast, 21 June 2020. https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/situating-sound/ Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham, N.C: Duke UP, 2003. Wilson, Michelle. “Forced Migration.” The SpokenWeb Podcast, 6 December 2021. https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/forced-migration/

Anne Wheeler stopped by for a Skype chat to talk about her first book of creative non-fiction, TAKEN BY THE MUSE, as well as the oddities of releasing a book during a pandemic, growing up in Alberta in the 1950s and more. To pick up your own copy of TAKEN BY THE MUSE, check it out on the NeWest Press site here: https://newestpress.com/books/taken-by-the-muse-on-the-path-to-becoming-a-filmmaker

On our July 2020 episode of CJSW Writer’s Block, poet Bertrand Bickersteth talks about his collection The Response of Weeds, (Newest Press) which explores what it means to be Black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical; and Doreen Vanderstoop discusses her bestselling debut novel, Watershed, (Freehand Books), a spellbinding "cli-fi" (climate fiction) story set in the drought-stricken Alberta of 2058.

Daybreak's books reviewer, Angie Abdou (The Bone Cage, Home Ice) returns for the month of June to peer inside the pages of a new works of fiction, Jaclyn Dawn's "The Inquirer" from Newest Press.

Nick and Sarah are joined by Bruce Cinnamon to deep dive his debut novel, The Melting Queen, 2019 from NeWest Press.For more on Bruce, head over to https://www.brucecinnamon.com/Winner of The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards honour both emerging and distinguished artists. Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category (winner should be announced some time in June 2020). Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howell is also on the short list... be sure to check out our episode on OPD and our interview with Niall.Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen—a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city’s spirits up over the following winter. But this year, something has changed: a genderfluid ex-frat brother called River Runson is named as Melting Queen. As River's reign upends the city's century-old traditions, Edmonton tears itself in two, with progressive and reactionary factions fighting a war for Edmonton's soul. Ultimately, River must uncover the hidden history of Melting Day, forcing Edmonton to confront the dark underbelly of its traditions and leading the city into a new chapter in its history.

On our November 2019 episode of CJSW Writer’s Block, we have an in-depth interview with Jaclyn Dawn about her funny and poignant debut novel, The Inquirer, set in a small town somewhere in Alberta, and we also chat with Wendy McGrath, about Broke City, the final novel in her Santa Rosa prairie gothic trilogy, both published by Newest Press.

Peter Midgley came by the NeWest Press office to talk about his latest poetry collection let us not think of them as barbarians, a book which grapples with history, legacy and atonement.

In this episode, we'll talk with author and University of Windsor faculty member, Heidi Jacobs about her new novel inspired by the historic Daniel Defoe novel, Moll Flanders. We'll also hear a clip of Christian Laforet of Adventure Worlds Press reading from his new novel at the ChiSeries Reading at Windsor's premier downtown music venue, the Phog Lounge. Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Heidi L.M. Jacobs completed her Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees in English at the University of Alberta. She also holds a Mater’s of Library and Information Science from Western University, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently the English and History Librarian at the University of Windsor and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Scholarship. And she’s a superb writer. Her new novel is Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass & Purveyor of Fine Footwear: Her History and Misadventures, released just this spring by NeWest Press.

Audrey Whitson joins us at the NeWest Press office to talk about her new novel THE DEATH OF ANNIE THE WATCHER WITCHER BY LIGHTNING, as well as some dark periods in Alberta history as well as growing up in small towns.

Bruce Cinnamon joins us at the NeWest Press office to talk about cities with chips on their shoulders and how sometimes civic spirit can go wrong. Check out THE MELTING QUEEN in stores and online in April!

Collin Doyle joins us at the NeWest Press office to talk about his play collection THE MIGHTY CARLINS, as well as some hairbrained get-rich-quick schemes and the subtleties of stage directions.

Playwright Collin Doyle visits the studio for a candid chat on the eve of NeWest Press's publication of The Mighty Carlins and Other Plays. We cover The Zoo Story, Mill Woods, the gold Jesus, the best set reveal YEG theatre has ever seen, and what it's like to lose the Sterling to Sheldon Elter (again). Join us, and enjoy! Doyle's book launch of The Mighty Carlins and Other Plays will be held on October 16 at The Almanac on Whyte Avenue, with special guests reading from the plays featured in the collection. I Don't Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. The Well-Endowed Podcast is running a listener survey this month. Find it here. If you like our podcast and value media coverage of the arts in Edmonton, please consider becoming a Patron. And thanks for listening! https://idontgetityeg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/S5E2-The-Mighty-Collin-Doyle.mp3 Become a Patron!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Playwright Collin Doyle visits the studio for a candid chat on the eve of NeWest Press’s publication of The Mighty Carlins and Other Plays. We cover The Zoo Story, Mill Woods, the gold Jesus, the best set reveal YEG theatre has ever seen, and what it’s like to lose the Sterling to Sheldon Elter (again). Join […]

Reading West features Canadian writers talking about their books...specifically writers who live in Western Canada.  On November 21, Lisa dropped in on the Vertigo Reading Series in Regina, Sask. Vertigo features writers and musicians performing for an artist. The series is produced and hosted by Tara Dawn Solheim. This episode features Walter Hildebrandt reading from his poetry collection Documentaries, published by NeWest Press. Charles Noble also reads from his latest collection, Mack the Naïf, published by Ekstasis Editions. Kate Sutherland takes a look at wildlife-human interactions in How to Draw a Rhinoceros (BookThug, 2016). And finally we had original music by Myla. Check out her music on Soundcloud. Theme music is Flax Flower Blue by Best Kept Secret Girlfriend.  This podcast features Western Canadian authors reading from their novels, short fiction, poetry, memoirs, or non-fiction. It is created and hosted by Saskatchewan novelist Lisa Guenther. Reading West is open to featuring published authors from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. For the most part, the podcast focuses on literature, but writers working in other genres are welcome to inquire. For more information on submitting, visit lisaguenther.com/reading-west-podcast/  You can also check out the show on Facebook at www.facebook.com/readingwest/

Reading West features Canadian writers talking about their books...specifically writers who live in Western Canada.  This episode features Saskatchewan author and Reading West host Lisa Guenther reading from her novel, Friendly Fire. Friendly Fire was published by NeWest Press in Oct. 2015. It is available at https://alllitup.ca, as well as many fine bookstores and Amazon.com.  Theme song is Flax Flower Blue by Saskatoon's Best Kept Secret Girlfriend. Hear more of her music at https://bestkeptsecretgirlfriend.bandcamp.com/releases This podcast features Western Canadian authors reading from their novels, short fiction, poetry, memoirs, or non-fiction. It is created and hosted by Saskatchewan novelist Lisa Guenther. Reading West is open to featuring published authors from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. For the most part, the podcast focuses on literature, but writers working in other genres are welcome to inquire. For more information on submitting, visit lisaguenther.com/reading-west-podcast/  You can also check out the show on Facebook at www.facebook.com/readingwest/

This week's podcast features the audio from our meetup on how to get good sound, featuring multimedia photojournalist Ryan Jackson of Full Circle Visuals and podcaster and video editor Chris Sikkenga. We gathered at Variant Edition Comics and Culture in June to learn more about why sound is so important, how to control the room to improve the conditions for recording, how to work the microphone to avoid common errors, how to monitor your sound along the way, and what, if anything, you can do after the fact to fix it up if you mess up. The irony is not lost on me that the sound for this is not pristine, as it was recorded on a snowball mic on a table in a room with a lot of hard surfaces. And it occurred to me after re-listening to the recording that I still haven't mastered their advice for good microphone technique. It's not terrible, but there's room for improvement. Do as they say, not as I do.  This episode is also available in iTunes, on Google Play, on SoundCloud or on Stitcher. Be sure to follow Full Circle Visuals on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And please listen to, subscribe to and rate Chris's podcasts, Montreal Sauce and Film Frown. Thanks again to Variant Edition for technical assistance, the room and a door prize; to NeWest Press for another door prize; and to CafeRista for delicious treats. Our next meetup will be held at CafeRista (14213 103 Ave.) on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 1 pm. Save the date, and watch for details on the Edmonton Podcasting Meetup page. Here is some of the gear that Chris brought along for show and tell: Behringer XENYX 802 eight-channel compact audio mixer Rolls Pro switchable microphone mute/talk switch Shure SM58-LC vocal microphone Pyle Pro PHA40 four-channel stereo headphone amplifier Zoom H4nSP four-channel handy recorder A lot of that is next-level stuff. If you're just looking for gear to get started, previous podcast meetup guest Justin Jackson recommends this setup: Microphone: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Pop filter: "Find one that will work with your mic. This one is a good start." Headphones: Sennheiser HD 202 II Editing software: Garage Band (for Mac) and Audacity (for PC) This week’s Seen and Heard in Edmonton is brought to you by Podcast Canvas, a tool to help businesses and organizations that want to start a podcast figure out who to reach, what to say, and how to make it happen. If you want to start a podcast, want to help your company start a podcast, or keep getting asked "How do I start a podcast?", visit podcastcanvas.com for a free planning tool and guide.  Musical credits: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, played by Daniel Veesey, from freemusicarchive.com.  

Edmonton poet Walter Hildebrandt stopped by the NeWest Press offices to talk about his new collection DOCUMENTARIES, as well as the difference between writing poetry and history, and his ever-evolving poetic process.