On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Šari Dale and Ashleigh Giffen and listen to them read from their upcoming chapbook BC Bitches. Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Cole Mash and Maddie Bishop about what words have been inspiring us

Content Warning: This podcast contains themes of underage substance use. Listen discretion is advised.

Find Šari Dale on Instagram: @sari.docx

Find Ashleigh Giffen on Instagram: @galaxiiee_

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We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

On this LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the November 2020 Open Mic event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on November 5th 2020.

Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Bronwyn Berg and listen to a segment of her reading her short story Get Well Soon (And Best Wishes). Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Cole Mash and Matthew Rader about a document that’s inspiring us: Carmen Papalia’s Open Access Tenets.

Content Warning: This podcast contains themes of death of a parent during childhood and terminal illness. Listen discretion is advised

Preorder the March Issue of Room Magazine at www.roommagazine.com 

Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com 

Find Carmen Papalia’s work at https://carmenpapalia.com

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

On this LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the October 2020 Open Mic event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on October 8th 2020.

Credit Notes: "In Celebration of my Breasts: Call and Response, with Anne Sexton’s “In Celebration of My Uterus”" by Lesley-Anne Evans

Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Michael V. Smith, hear a few poems from his collection Bad Ideas, and talk about the magic of poetry. Then, we talk with Inspired Word Café Collective Member (and Board President!) Rikki Bassett about what we’ve been reading this month that’s inspiring us.

Content Warning: Please note that this episode contains references to violence, death, and childhood sexual abuse.

Find Michael at www.michaelvsmith.com

See Michael’s show Have I Told You the One About? at www.youtube.com/michaelvsmith71

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

On our first Special LIVE episode of Inspired Word Café, we take a listen to our highlights and favourite moments from the 2020 Kickoff Classic Slam event, originally at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on September 17th 2020.

Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

Please note: this content was recorded live and has not been censored for sensitive content. Listener discretion is advised.

In our first episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down and hear Erin Scott read from her new chapbook Atrophy , as well as talk about her process about writing it. Then, we chat with Inspired Word Café Collective Members Mackenzie (Ken) Shaw and Henry Greyson about what’s inspiring them this month.

Content advisory: this episode references miscarriage.

Buy Atrophy at www.kalamalkapress.ca

Find Erin at www.erinhscott.com, on Instagram, or on Facebook

Find Ken at www.kendontcry.bigcartel.com, or on Instagram

We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org

This podcast is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the City of Kelowna.

This is a podcast that brings all the excitement of the written, and spoken words of the Inspired Word Café home to your headphones! Whether you’ve been to one of our reading events, poetry slams, or workshops before — or even if this is your first time hearing about the Inspired Word Café — we’ve got a little something to scratch your writerly-readerly-literary itches! Every month, we’ll be bringing you a well caffeinated dose of poetry, prose, and all the fresh brewed goodness of the written word. Here, we’ll be shining our coffee house spotlight on local writers from in and around the Okanagan Valley. Plus, stay tuned for our special episodes of Inspired Word Café LIVE events which we’ll be dropping while they're hot!

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