All Write in Sin City

A special episode for you in the midst of the Fall Literary Festival Season! The wonderful poets Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver recently appeared at Biblioasis Bookstore. 
Their publisher, Dan Wells introduces them. Episode edited for length. Enjoy these dynamic readings!

Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and theatre maker. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new choral works by Colin Labadie, James Rolfe, and Zachary Wadsworth, among others, and to the folk opera The Sign of Jonas, a collaboration with Benton Roark. 

He is the author of four books of poems, one of which (Years, Months, and Days, 2018) was named a Best Book of the Year in the New York Times. 

He works with Daniel Cabena as part of the metamorphosing ensemble ANIMA to create and commission new works inspired by early music sources.

He teaches creative writing and English literature at Saint Mary's University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He also appeared at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor in October, 2022.

http://biblioasis.com/brand/hathaway-luke/

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Let the Empire Down ( 2016), and Hail, the Invisible Watchman (2022). Her libretto for From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, conceived in conjunction with composer Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham, was performed by Continuum Music in Toronto in December, 2017. Oliver is a past co-editor of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman’s Library/Random House, 2015) as well as of the formalist journal The Rotary Dial. She has performed her work for CBC Radio and NPR, as well as at The National Poetry Slam and a murder of festivals and conferences. Oliver holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program and a Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. She lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband and son.

http://biblioasis.com/brand/oliver-alexandra/

A resident of Erie Beach, Ontario, Ian Kennedy is a secondary school teacher and journalist with a passion for sport and storytelling. In 2011, he founded CKSN (Chatham-Kent Sports Network), an online news outlet covering both amateur and professional athletes. His reporting has been featured on radio, in newspapers and publications that include The Hockey News, Canadian Horse Journal and Outdoor Canada magazine. He holds degrees in Kinesiology and Education from the University of Western Ontario. His new book is On Account of Darkness: Shining Light on Race and Sport.
https://www.tidewaterpress.ca/ian-kennedy/

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is a poet, children’s writer, and all-around generalist when it comes to writing. Her books for children run the gamut from board books, Toesy Toes to YA Breathing Fire, with a whole bunch of picture books in-between. Her poetry books Sweet Devilry (winner of the Gerald Lampert) and Status Update (nominated for the Pat Lowther) are a mix of traditional forms, lyric, and invented forms. She is the Creative Director at Poetry In Voice. Her new book is Grappling Hook, a poetry collection published by Palimpsest Press. Sarah will be appearing twice at this year’s BookFest Windsor/Festival du Livre on October 17th and we are pleased to have her with us on the podcast now.
https://sarahtsiang.com/
https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/grappling-hook/

Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Stéfanie Clermont travelled throughout Canada and the United States, working at a wide variety of jobs, before settling in Montreal in 2012. Le jeu de la musique, her first book, was published in 2017. For this work, she won the prestigious Prix Ringuet of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council’s prize for a new work by a young artist, and le Prix Adrienne Choquette for short stories. It was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and was included in Le Combat des livres, the French-language counterpart of Canada Reads. Le jeu de la musique has been released in English translation as The Music Game, published by Biblioasis Press. Stéfanie Clermont will be appearing twice at this year’s BookFest Windsor/Festival du Livre, as part of a French language panel on October 14th and an English language panel on October 15th.
http://biblioasis.com/brand/clermont-stefanie/

Kim Conklin is a writer, filmmaker, and podcaster. Kim’s stories, poems and films have appeared in journals, anthologies, and film festivals. Her journalism has appeared in broadcast and print, and her communications work has received more than 15 awards, including a Clio and a NY International Film Festival award. Her first novel, King of Hope releases in October, 2022 with Palimpsest Press, and Kim will appear at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor on October 14. Originally from Michigan, she lives in Windsor, Ontario.
https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/king-of-hope-kim-conklin/
BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor 2022

ALEXANDER MacLEOD was born in Inverness, Cape Breton, and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is the author of two internationally acclaimed books of fiction: Light Lifting, with Windsor’s Biblioasis, a winner of an Atlantic Book Award, and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, and the Commonwealth Book Prize. His latest book is Animal Person, which includes the O. Henry Award-winning story “Lagomorph,” originally published in Granta. MacLeod holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame, and McGill. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.
Editor's Note: when Alex refers to his "Dad," that is of course the late Dublin Impac Award winning author Alistair MacLeod.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/667155/animal-person-by-alexander-macleod/9780771029882
http://biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/light-lifting-2/

Former Detroiter Kimberly Garrett Brown is the Publisher and Executive Editor of Minerva Rising Press. Her work has appeared in Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, The Feminist Collective, Compass Literary Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman, Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus and elsewhere.

 Cora’s Kitchen is her first novel, due out in September 2022 from Toronto’s Inanna Publications. It was a finalist in the 2018 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the 2016 Louise Merriweather First Book Prize. She earned her MFA at Goddard College, and she currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida.
https://kimberlygarrettbrown.com/
https://www.inanna.ca/product/coras-kitchen/

David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David’s work has been published in magazines such as The Walrus, Maisonneuve, enRoute, and Canadian Notes & Queries, and anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. His second collection, Chemical Valley, is largely set in Sarnia, and deals with the ecological legacy of the oil and gas industry which seems to seep into every aspect of the characters’ lives. Also published by Biblioasis, Chemical Valley has recently been nominated for two Atlantic Book Awards. He joins us from Atlantic Canada.
http://biblioasis.com/tag/david-huebert/

On April 22, 2022, Literary Arts Windsor and BookFest Windsor with funding from the Canadian Heritage Canadian Arts and Performance Fund celebrated a new outdoor and although very cool and rainy, well-attended event at Lanspeary Park in Windsor: BookFest Equinoxe. We welcomed wonderful musicians, but for rights issues, you’ll just hear the fabulous poetry and conversation with Alex-Andrei (Alexei) Ungurenaşu, Windsor’s Youth Poet Laureate and BookFest / Festival du Livre Planning chair during this episode. 
This event was made possible by generous funding from Canadian Heritage CAPF. 

 You’ll hear a selection from: 

Kate Hargreaves,
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch,
Nick Hildenbrand,
and
Jovan Stefanov

All of whom kindly read at the launch and allowed us to record their performance.
https://www.literaryartswindsor.ca/tag/equinox-2022-artists/

We encourage you to check out the music from Flower Face here: https://www.flowerface.com/

 And Madeline Doornaert here: https://www.soulcitymusiccoop.com/madelinedoornaert

Cindy Hunter Morgan is the author of Harborless, a book of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, which was published by Wayne State University Press. It was a 2018 Michigan Notable Book and the winner of the 2017 Moveen Prize in Poetry. Apple Season won the Midwest Writing Center's 2012 Chapbook Contest, and The Sultan, The Skater, The Bicycle Maker won The Ledge Press 2011 Poetry Chapbook Award. She writes regularly for Murder Ballad Monday, a blog devoted to the exploration of the murder ballad tradition in folk and popular music. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Tin House Online, Passages North, Salamander, Sugar House Review, The Pinch, and West Branch. Cindy Hunter Morgan writes occasionally for Murder Ballad Monday, a blog devoted to the exploration of the murder ballad tradition in folk and popular music. She is a co-founder of Filmetry: A Festival of Film and Poetry. For several years, Hunter Morgan taught poetry and book arts at Michigan State University. She now heads up communications for Michigan State University Libraries. Her new poetry collection, Far Company, will be released by Wayne State University Press in May 2022.
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/far-company

https://www.cindyhuntermorgan.com/