All Write in Sin City

Our guest is D.A. Lockhart. He is the author of seven books, including Devil in the Woods, The Gravel Lot That Was Montana, This City at the Crossroads, Big Medicine Comes to Erie, and an essay collection called Wënchikàneit Visions. D.A. Lockhart holds degrees from Trent University, Montana State University, and Indiana University. His work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019, TriQuarterly, ARC Poetry Magazine, Grain, Belt, and The Malahat Review among others. He is also the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press and poetry editor for The Windsor Review. He is a Turtle Clan member of the Lenape people, a registered member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong on the south shore of the Detroit River (also known as the border cities of Windsor ON and Detroit MI). This year, he has published two new books, Breaking Right (with Porcupine’s Quill) and Tùkhòne: Where the River Narrows and the Shores Bend (with Black Moss Press.)
http://blackmosspress.com/d-a-lockhart/
https://porcupinesquill.ca/bookinfo6.php?index=361

G. A. Grisenthwaite is Nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation. His stories and poems have appeared in The Anitgonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, and Prism International. His work has earned a number of prizes, including the 2014 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award. He lives in Kingsville, ON. His first novel is Home Waltz, published by Palimpsest Press in 2020. 
Resources: https://palimpsestpress.ca/our-authors/g-a-grisenthwaite/

Welcome to a special edition of All Write in Sin City podcast. The podcasting elves are taking a break over the holidays, but thanks to the wonders of modern tech, we’ll be back in 2021 to bring you more great interviews and readings. 
 In this episode, we’re sharing some of the great readings we enjoyed throughout this year. All of the recordings were done safely and remotely, but you’ll certainly hear the authors’ passion and dedication. 

We loved all of our interviews, and here we have selected four readings: two of fiction; two of poetry, with authors from both sides of the Windsor – Detroit border in order to celebrate the diversity of all of our presentations at All Write in Sin City. 

So, relax, and enjoy! Each author’s reading from Fartumo Kusow, Brian Gilmore, Natalie Zina Walschots, and Margaret Noodin is preceded by the original introduction. You might even want to join in with some audience participation with Margaret! You can hear the full interviews and more at allwriteinsincity.com

Dr. Dale Jacobs teaches Composition and Rhetoric with interests in comics, composition pedagogies, literacy, and visual rhetorics at the University of Windsor, Ontario. In addition to numerous books and articles on rhetoric, he is the editor of North by North Wit: An Anthology of Canadian Humour (Black Moss Press, 2003) and Ice: New Writing on Hockey (Spotted Cow Press, 1997). He has edited Sunday with the Tigers: Eleven Ways to Watch a Game (Black Moss Press, 2015). Dale Jacobs is the new editor in chief of The Windsor Review which is published biannually by the University of Windsor Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Department of English and Creative Writing. Established in 1965, The Windsor Review features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and review essays.

The Windsor Review at 50: https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/windsor_review/issue/view/563

The latest edition of the Windsor Review Fall 2020: https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/windsor_review

Stories by Joseph Harris have appeared in Midwest Review, Moon City Review, Great Lakes Review, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Storm Cellar, and have received the Gesell, Tompkins, and Detroit Working Writers’ Awards for fiction. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Wayne State University, and a BFA from Emerson College. His collection of short fiction, You’re in the Wrong Place, is a collection of linked short stories about young people in Ferndale, Michigan, struggling to find their way after the crash of 2008. It was recently published by Wayne State University Press.
Note that there is some strong language in the reading. But it's a great story.

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/youre-wrong-place

Bob Campbell is a writer based in Flint, Mich. ​His creative nonfiction and essays have appeared in Belt Magazine, Forge Literary Magazine and Gravel Magazine. He is a contributor to Belt Publishing’s Midwest Architecture Journeys, published in October 2019. Bob was a staff writer for the Flint Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader and Detroit Free Press. He was also an electrician at AC Spark Plug, formerly a division of General Motors, before moving into journalism. ​His debut novel, Motown Man, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in November 2020.
Note that there is some strong language in the reading. But it's a great story.

https://urbanfarmhousepress.ca/index.php?id_product=27&controller=product
https://www.bobcampbellwrites.com/

Born in Ottawa, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent poetry collections are A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), with a further poetry title forthcoming from University of Calgary Press. An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (periodicityjournal.blogspot.com) and Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com). He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
rob mclennan is a BookFest / Festival du livre 2020 guest. 

Based in Vancouver, Evelyn Lau is the author of thirteen books, including eight volumes of poetry. Her poetry has received the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, and nominations for a BC Book Prize and a Governor-General’s Award. From 2011-2014, Evelyn served as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate. Her latest book is Pineapple Express.
Evelyn Lau is a BookFest / Festival du livre 2020 guest.
https://www.anvilpress.com/books/pineapple-express

Kevin Spenst, a Pushcart Prize nominee, is the author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong (both Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (Alfred Gustav Press), Ward Notes (serif of nottingham), Flip Flop Faces and Unexpurgated Lives (JackPine Press), and Upend (Frog Hollow Press: Dis/Ability series). His work has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry, been nominated for both the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has appeared in dozens of publications including Prairie Fire, CV2, BafterC, Lemon Hound, Poetry is Dead, and the Best Canadian Poetry 2019 anthology. He lives on unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver) with the love of his life Shauna Kaendo.

His latest book is Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse, released in May by Anvil Press.
https://www.anvilpress.com/authors/kevin-spenst
Kevin Spenst is also a BookFest/Festival du livre 2020 author. 

Mark Laliberte is a Canadian artist, writer, editor and graphic designer — and the creator of The 4PANEL Project. He curates the strips that appear on 4panel.ca, and, as project founder, is also an active artist-participant. Recent books include: BRICKBRICKBRICK (BookThug), Grey Supreme 01 (Koyama Press), asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press), BookBook (above/ground) and Explosive Comic (Swimmers Group).  He is the owner and operator of POPNOIR EDITIONS (established in 2016) which publishes art books, comics, zines and other creative ephemera.

PopNoir’s newest book is 4Panel 3. Mark Laliberte debuted the book at this year’s virtual BookFest Windsor on October 17th.
http://popnoir.ca/
https://www.bookfestwindsor.com/