Michelle Good's debut novel,"Five Little Indians" won the Governor General's Award, The Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award. It’s an intimate, chilling and sometimes disturbing story about five residential school survivors. The interview was recorded live on stage at this summer’s Writers at Woody Point Literary Festival in the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi'kmaq. *A warning that some may find the content of this program disturbing.

This week on Atlantic Voice, Emma Davie looks at the pandemic’s impact on summer camps like Big Cove and Camp Kadimah. For the second summer in a row the sounds of swimming, archery, canoeing and fun may be replaced with zoom calls.

Waiting for the Time is about a lullaby writing project at a women’s prison. Lullabies are deceptively simple songs... usually a statement of love or connection between a parent and child. The International Lullaby Project is using the songs to build hope in places

where that may be lacking: refugee camps, neo-natal units, drop-in centres and prisons.

Angela Antle attended the Canadian premiere of the Lullaby project at the Clarenville Corrections Centre for Women. Newfoundland’s only women’s prison.

A Hollywood dog and his owners teach us to let go of judgement and live a good life. When CBC Producer Gavin Simms watched the Disney movie Togo, he couldn't shake the feeling that he had seen the star sled dog before. Not just anywhere but in his own tiny hometown of Hermitage, Newfoundland.

The Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK) is growing. Artist Pam Halls started the project a decade ago on Newfoundland's Northern peninsula. The newest edition co-authored with Jerry Evans shares some of the rich knowledge of the Mi'kmaw community of Miawpukek near Conne River.

Long Lost sisters tells the story of an amateur genealogical sleuth who helped reunite two sisters who didn’t know about each other. Separated by the Atlantic ocean and seven decades. Sheila and Carol Ann meet face to face for the first time here.

In light of the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin and the global focus on racism and policing, I am re-airing an interview with poet and activist El Jones, She was asked by the Halifax Board of Commissioners to define defunding the police. The chair said El Jones with the contacts she has in the community will give us the information we need.

This week on Atlantic Voice, CBC New Brunswick’s Myfanwy Davies brings us the story of Laura Stairs

- a loving and generous young woman and by all accounts an incredible hugger. This is the story of her heart and how it brought together two families.

Shaina Luck takes us into a dry cell. It’s a windowless prison cell with no working plumbing. The lights are always on and there’s 24-7 monitoring. Guards wait and watch for days, even weeks for prisoners to expel suspected contraband from their bodies. Some consider dry cells torture.

Today on Atlantic Voice, I'll speak with Wendy Bergfeldt who is launching a new CBC series called “Ready and Able" about the Nova Scotia government’s commitment to make the province fully accessible to all - by 2030.

Wendy is going to introduce to some of the advocates behind this progressive new legislation.