All Write in Sin City

In this podcast, you'll hear a live and lively recording of a special event in Windsor. Today, you’ll hear Part One of a recent interview with award-winning fiction author Casey Plett, recorded at Biblioasis bookstore. Windsor poet Vanessa Shields is the interviewer.

Casey Plett is the author of the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love  and the novel Little Fish, which won this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Lamda Literary Award. It was also short-listed for the 2019 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.

Casey's also co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Plenitude, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction, a finalist for this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a was a past finalist for the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.

Check out Little Fish on the publisher's website: arsenalpulp.com/Books/L/Little-Fish

This episode was recorded in the cozy library at All Saints’ Church in downtown Windsor. It usually has the advantage of being quiet, intimate, and full of actual books, however today we shared the hallway with excited folks from the Arts Collective Theatre (ACT) company which also rents space from All Saints’. It’s all part of being embedded in the lively Windsor-Essex arts scene! 

Josef Bastian, the Detroit-based creator of the Folktellers universe brings his media partner Steve Sadler to talk about their unique trans-media project around Josef’s fantasy series, and the first book in the series, Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook Book 1: Phases of the Moon.

Joseph F. (Josef) Bastian is an award-winning, master storyteller. He's spent the past 25 years helping people tell their stories, specializing in broad-based international workforce development, corporate learning programs and public education initiatives. 
 
 Josef’s career began in the automotive industry. Josef moved into large government, healthcare and corporate education programs, where he designed and developed blended learning programs for Fortune 500 clients.
 
 Joe holds advanced degrees in instructional design and learning technology from Oakland University, the University of Detroit/Mercy and Oxford University in England. Mr. Bastian is also an award-winning, internationally published author and poet with fifteen books currently in print, with a new storytelling series set for film and television.

Dive into the Folktellers universe at folktellers.com. The link for the literacy fundraising golf tournament is here.

Josef tells us about an initiative to have students create videos about the Folktellers Universe. Here’s a link to Josef’s blog announcing the Awards shortlist. 

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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. 

This episode launches our mobile studio, and we talk to an Essex County native who writes for money and for love, and a powerful speculative fiction writer. We recorded this show in the cozy library at All Saints’ Church in downtown Windsor.

Essex County native Van Waffle drops by from his home in Waterloo to talk about his writing. Van makes his living writing freelance for various nature and health publications, but also writes poetry and fiction. We hear a sample of a novel underway. Author Brittni Brinn also chats with us about genre writing and reads from her latest book, The Patch Project. 

Catch Van’s Speed River Journal blog at vanwaffle.com and find out more about Brittni at brittnibrinn.com.

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This podcast is a wide-ranging, extended conversation with M.L. Liebler, an internationally known and widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer, and also an editor. M.L.’s work has received many awards, but most recently, Heaven Was Detroit, the anthology that he edited about the history of the Detroit music scene from jazz to hip-hop and beyond won a PEN/Oakland award. Liebler brought the book to BookFest Windsor in October of 2018.

This interview was recorded in his office at Wayne State University, where he talks about the book and how it came to be, and also about what he’s seen happening in the Detroit music and arts scene over the last four decades. He also talks about a companion poetry anthology, Respect, due out summer 2019. During the conversation, you’ll also hear some excerpts from the musical performance of Heaven was Detroit with the Coyote Monk Band performed earlier at the Aretha Jazz Café at The Music Hall. Liebler and the band also give a shout-out to the rock-and-roll history of Windsor. 

Find out more about M.L. Liebler on his website, mlliebler.com, and more about the book on the Wayne State University Press website, wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/heaven-was-detroit

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On this episode, we talk with two of Windsor’s favorite genre authors Christian Laforet and Ben Van Dongen. These authors have a special relationship: They’re friends, they’re both genre authors, and they are both publishers at Adventure Worlds Press, based here in Windsor. 

Christian and Ben have worked hard at hand-selling books, and they’ve been successful at it. Today, they’ll both talk about how they approach the writing process for their respective genres. Christian specializes in horror, and Ben in science fiction, but they do sometimes take on projects together. They also run ChiSeriesWindsor, a part of The Chiaroscuro Reading Series national reading series. 

Find out more about Christian and Ben and their latest adventures at adventureworldspress.com.

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This episode of All Write in Sin City features Windsor poet Vanessa Shields. She talks about her new book of poetry, now in production with Windsor-based publisher Palimpsest Press. She also shares her process for writing poetry, and talks a bit about her new venture, Gertrude’s Writing Room, a place where writers of all ages and interests can come hone their craft and get inspired.  

We’ll also feature author Cecil Foster talking about his new book, They Call Me George, and  how African Canadian railway workers changed our national history. His book is the first in a new history series of publications coming out from Windsor’s own Biblioasis press. 

Find out about Vanessa Shields and her work at vanessashields.com, and see what’s happening at Gertrude’s at gertrudeswritingroom.com. And learn more about Cecil Foster and his book at http://www.cecilfoster.ca/ or http://biblioasis.com.

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New York Times bestselling author Elly Blake stops by to talk about her Frostblood trilogy in our first show. We also feature  Sarah, Irene and Kim telling the short story about how All Write in Sin City began,  and we reveal the Spring List of Recommended local books, curated by Juniper Books in Windsor. 

Elly Blake’s books, Frostblood, Fireblood, and Nightblood, are widely available, and you can find out more and where to follow her on www.ellyblake.com. 

You can find the complete Spring List posted on the Show Notes on our website, allwriteinsincity.com. Books are available at Juniper Books and other local bookstores, or through the author’s websites. 

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