By Claire Tacon
The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
“It's essential when we're writing non-fiction for it to be non-fiction. My experience has always been that f**king with the facts f**ks with the emotion. And so sometimes it's because you think that fudging the facts will get you to the truth faster, or will get you to the emotion faster. But often what it gets you to is a surface emotion. False facts get you to false emotion. So sticking with the facts, trying to work your way on the page with the messiness of human experience brings more nuance to that emotional truth that you're trying to get at.”
In this episode, Kim Pittaway shares strategies for writing non-fiction with emotional depth and why it’s essential for writers to learn how the publishing business works.
She discusses:
0:00 | How mentoring should equip students with their own compasses
0:40 | Her work as Executive Director of the creative nonfiction program at University of King's College and the importance of learning the business side of writing alongside the craft
3:19 | Working with Toufah Jallow on her memoir Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement
9:20 | Developing the “idea plot” alongside the narrative drive of a creative nonfiction piece
12:15 | The challenge of interviewing people about traumatic events and the best practices she’s developed over her career
15:24 | Working through a shift in perspective when encountering an emotional gap in a piece
18:30 | Her essay, “After” and challenging conventional reporting on sexual violence
22:50 | Getting to nuanced, emotional truths when writing non-fiction
Kim Pittaway is a cohort director in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King's College in Halifax, NS. She is an award-winning journalist with publication and broadcast credits that include Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Reader’s Digest, More Magazine, Best Health, Cottage Life, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, CBC Radio’s The Current, Tapestry, and others. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation (and an 8-time NMAF finalist), a co-winner of a Canadian Science Writers’ Association Award with her sister the journalist Tina Pittaway, and a finalist for the American Society of Journalists and Authors service writing award. She spent a decade working with a wide range of magazine and NGO clients developing online editorial strategies and content. She is the author, with Toufah Jallow, of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement. She is also at work on a memoir with the working title Grudge: What We Learn from What We Can't Forgive. Check out her website.
You can find Kim’s work here:
Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement
After
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Reading recommendations:
The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fiction for a New Era, by Harold R. Johnson
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos
Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ni Ghriofa
Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz
They Said This Would be Fun by Eternity Martis
How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
“What I tell my students is that, you know, when they publish someday and work with an editor, it'll be a breeze. Because if you spent two years or more workshopping your work creatively, where you've got 20 people telling you their opinions about it and what they like about it, what they didn't like about it—that's far harder. What they're doing in, in a creative writing class is far harder than working with an editor later, where you're just getting one person's opinion. And I tell them, at this point, I'm like, if somebody has a piece of advice that will make this thing better, I'm taking it. I don't have any anxiety over influence or anything like that.”
In this episode, Wayde Compton shares how he challenges conventional narrative structures and explains why it’s worth following your own particularities as a writer.
He discusses:
0:54 | How working with Betsy Warland shaped his own thinking about teaching creative writing and the importance of fostering connections between students
2:37 | Reading reference books as a child and how it influenced the development of his story collection The Outer Harbour
8:26 | His book of essays After Canaan and his work on preserving the memory of Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver
13:38 | Why having a “writing buddy” is more valuable, in the long run, than having a mentor
14:46 | Exploring woodworking through haptics and creating tactile art that complements his writing projects
17:03 | How you never know how people are going to receive your work or how it's going to be useful to them
21:33 | An exercise inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s work where he asks students to start a fiction project by drawing a map
Guest bio:
Wayde Compton is the author of four books: 49th Parallel Psalm (finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize); Performance Bond; After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award); and The Outer Harbour (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award). He has also edited two anthologies: Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award). Compton is a co-founder of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, an organization formed to raise awareness about the history of Vancouver’s Black community. He lives in Vancouver and has recently joined the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.
The music you heard on this episode was composed by Amadeo Ventura. You can hear more of his music at amadeoventura.weebly.com.
Visit TNQ.ca to access more of Wayde Compton’s writing and teaching tips, including web extras about reading local work and the importance of “finding your urgency.”
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You can find Wayde’s work here:
The Outer Harbour
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
Performance Bond; After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
49th Parallel Psalm
Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature
The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them
The Blue Road
“I always say that I learned to be a writer by teaching. I didn't take a creative writing course in high school. I didn't take any creative writing courses in university. I really credit teaching writing with my knowledge of writing, which seems kind of backward, but having to understand writing enough to teach it, I felt like I knew enough about the writing process when I started writing Kings, Queens and In-Betweens enough to get something down on paper.”
In this episode, Tanya Boteju shares her thoughts on writing for Young Adult audiences and how teaching writing equipped her with the skills to become a writer herself.
She discusses:
1:09 | the importance of free-writing—how it’s informed her own practice and how she scaffolds the writing process for her students
3:34 | writing a book about joy and possibility set in the drag community in Kings, Queens and In-Betweens
7:57 | inviting previous students to be beta readers for both of her books (and getting feedback in emoji form)
9:31 | challenging ideas about strength in her second book, Bruised, and writing queer stories that move beyond coming-out narratives
15:54 | how writing in first-person to help you discover more about your characters and the unexpected details that can emerge from that
17:57 | balancing writing and teaching and being intentional with writing, even when you only have small chunks of time
Guest bio:
Tanya Boteju is an English teacher and writer living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada).
Tanya is grateful for her patient wife, supportive family and friends, committed educators, sassy students, and hot mugs of tea. In both teaching and writing, she is committed to positive, diverse representation.
About the podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
Credits:
Parallel Careers is produced by Claire Tacon, in partnership with The New Quarterly magazine. Erin MacIndoe Sproule is our Technical Producer and Story Editor. Music composed by Amadeo Ventura. Financial and in-kind support provided by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, St. Jerome’s University, and the Government of Canada.
The music you heard on this episode was composed by Amadeo Ventura. You can hear more of his music at amadeoventura.weebly.com.
Visit TNQ.ca to access more of Tanya Boteju’s writing and teaching tips, including web extras about professional development and figurative language.
If you like our podcast, please leave a review—it really helps other listeners find our show! Thank you!
You can find Tanya’s work here:
Bruised
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Out Now edited by Saundra Mitchell
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Boys and Girls Screaming by Kern Carter
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
The Misewa Series by David A Robertson
“I certainly see the plasticity and the infinite possibilities there are within language as a way to expand the limits of the, the quote unquote world and a way to dream of another world where liberation is possible. And to try and, in some way, approach it in language as a way of possibly immanentizing it. Some people might think that's sort of anarchical or utopian, but I think that one needs the audacity to be able to dream of these things. And that is what I'm trying to do in language.”
In this episode, Liz Howard shares her thoughts on the expansiveness of poetry and how it can be used as a tool for exploration, experimentation and interpretation:
She discusses:
1:22 | how an old copy of Macbeth entrained her ear to the rhythm of language
3:47 | coming to see her writing as a conversation with the ancestral realm
5:00 | using enjambment to interrupt anecdotal poems in her first collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, inviting the reader to pay closer attention
9:12 | invoking both Western astrophysical science and cosmology, as well as Indigenous, specifically Anishinaabe, sky knowledge in Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
11:14 | scavenging and thrifting language to produce a sort of haunting or a kind of echo within the text and how that resonates with her work in cognitive psychology
16:16 | adapting one of Dionne Brand’s writing exercises in her own classroom, inviting students to consider a sight of astonishment, an earliest memory and a moment of self-awareness
19:11 | her work at Inkwell and developing prompts from existing poems to explore situated-ness
Guest Bio:
Liz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for poetry, and was named a Globe and Mail top 100 book. A National Magazine Award finalist, her recent work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Literary Review of Canada, Room Magazine and Best Canadian Poetry 2021. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was published by McClelland & Stewart in June 2021. Howard received an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She has completed creative writing and Indigenous arts residencies at McGill University, University of Calgary, UBC Okanagan, Douglas College, Sheridan College, and The Capilano Review. She is also an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and serves on the editorial board for Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn. She is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario, she currently lives in Toronto.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
Credits:
Parallel Careers is produced by Claire Tacon, in partnership with The New Quarterly magazine. Erin MacIndoe Sproule is our Technical Producer and Story Editor. Music composed by Amadeo Ventura. Financial and in-kind support provided by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, St. Jerome’s University, and the Government of Canada.
“Mostly when I'm teaching, I am trying really hard to get out of the way of the student's own creative process. So I don't want to dictate what students make. I like to give a writing prompt that invites them to source their own material, to give them a degree of choice in how they find what they want to write about. So I trust a lot in the unconscious, that the unconscious is just going to deliver something that has value for them. Because the unconscious doesn't like to waste its time.”
In this episode, Michael V. Smith shares how he brings community-building tools into the academy and how memoir allows a writer to travel through time.
He discusses:
0:55 | the benefits of valuing process over product in writing courses
3:43 | reconciling masculinity while writing My Body Is Yours
6:21 | the difference between the book you intend to write and the book you’ve actually written
8:38 | the impact of the slogan “silence equals death,” and how writing helps keep us alive
13:00 | queering the academy and embodying a brave space in the classroom
16:35 | his oral history project Soundtrack and capturing lived history on a scale that is often erased
22:03 | adapting a Lynda Barry exercise to help students build a setting and generate narrative
Guest bio:
Michael V. Smith is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and Associate Professor teaching Creative Writing in the interdisciplinary department of Creative Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, BC. Smith is an MFA graduate from UBC’s Creative Writing program.
Smith has won a number of awards for both his writing and his short film work. His novel, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Smith won the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He’s won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Journey Prize.
His videos have played around the world, and he has screened work at the British Film Institute, at the Lincoln Center with the New York Video Festival, and in the Vancouver International Film Festival. As a performer, Smith has played dozens of cabarets and festivals, including the 2011 Performance Studies International Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, and an intervention with the Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
In this episode, Eufemia Fantetti describes how she approaches teaching with compassion, outlines the challenges of writing about emotional trauma, and shares how she uses humour as a superpower and a shield.
She discusses:
0:52 | teachers who take their frustrations out on students and why it’s important to provide practical tips in every lesson
4:34 | writing food and complicated relationships in her short story collection A Recipe for Disaster and Other Unlikely Tales of Love
8:44 | finding the narrative frame for her memoir My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me and how the “fool’s journey” provided a useful template
11:46 | watching true-crime documentaries during the pandemic and the insights it gave her into writing about family
14:01 | helping students enrich their creative non-fiction by “mapping the personal and charting the global”
17:15 | sharing the Molisan dialect with her father and how her fascination with language led to the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language
21:14 | working on the Humber Literary Review, imagining rejection as a four-burner oven and embracing writing as a life-long pursuit that you can always improve at
Guest bio:
Eufemia Fantetti is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU and the University of Guelph’s MFA in Creative Writing. Her fiction, nonfiction and plays have been published in the anthologies Love Me True, Exploring Voice and Body & Soul. Her work has also appeared in The New Quarterly, Event and the Globe and Mail. She is a winner of the Event Magazine Non-Fiction Contest, and a three-time winner of the annual Accenti Writing Contest. Her work has been nominated for the Creative Nonfiction Collective Readers' Choice Award and was listed as notable in Best American Essays (2009).
Eufemia’s memoir, My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me was released in October 2019 by Mother Tongue Publishing. Her first book, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue, 2013), was runner up for the 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, a winner of the 2014 F.G. Bressani Prize.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
"I think it's really important, even if you are not, you know, not gonna be a writer, to still acknowledge that you have right to creative production. There's nothing that says that you have to stop drawing or, or painting after middle school or high school. Celebrate your capacity to make something out of nothing."
In this episode, Ian Williams discusses tackling complicated ethical issues in his writing and finding ways to maintain lifelong creativity.
He discusses:
0:50 | Examining thorny moral and ethical questions through a mathematical model in his poetry collection Word Problems
5:10 | Sticking his poems on the wall and the point in the writing process where he “surrenders to the work,” giving it precedence over the comfort of closure
6:45 | Asking his students to write every day and how he adapts the assignment to different course levels
8:33| His essay collection Disorientation, about what it feels like to be a Black man moving through the world, and writing directly to the reader without the filter of fiction
13:00 | Taking his book draft out to dinner and the importance of recovering joy in the writing process
16:41 | Accruing a character through a repertoire of physical gestures
18:29 | Decentring the “I” by asking students to write an autobiographical poem without any people or pronouns in it
20:20 | Why it’s critical to make plans for our creative lives and how creativity is not a failure because it's a part of your life rather than all of your life
Guest bio:
Ian Williams is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His latest book, Disorientation, considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people.
His novel, Reproduction, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was published in Canada, the US, the UK, and Italy. His poetry collection, Word Problems, converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster Award. His previous collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Williams completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. After several years teaching poetry in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Williams returned to the University of Toronto as a tenured professor of English. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Program. In 2022, he will be the Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and pract
“The other thing I say in Out of Line after ‘if you don't have community, art will break your heart’ is your heart will be broken anyway, eventually, but it's better with community. You will recover faster and you won't die of heartbreak if you have community.”
In this episode, Tanis MacDonald encourages us to challenge the voices in the canon that do not satisfy, and examines her changing relationship with both walking and art.
She discusses:
1:06 | How poetry attracts people with its strangeness and makes space for two disparate ideas to sit alongside each other.
1:58 | Writing about a female experience of the city in her poetry collection Mobile.
4:40 | Reclaiming the “Crazy Jane” trope and writing about a character who is struggling to leave capitalism and colonialism behind.
7:06 | Considering questions of mobility in her forthcoming book Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.
11:24 | Being vulnerable with students and using her own work to teach revision strategies.
14:26 | Her book Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City and how to measure success as a writer.
Guest Bio:
Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. Her essay “Mondegreen Girls” won the Open Seasons Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2021. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
Credits:
Parallel Careers is produced by Claire Tacon, in partnership with The New Quarterly magazine. Erin MacIndoe Sproule is our Technical Producer and Story Editor. Music composed by Amadeo Ventura. Financial and in-kind support provided by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, St. Jerome’s University, and the Government of Canada.
If you like our podcast, please leave a review—it really helps other listeners find our show! Thank you!
You can find Tanis’s work here:
Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female
Mobile
Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City
GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times
Rue the Day
The music you heard on this episode was composed by Amadeo Ventura. You can hear more of his music at amadeoventura.weebly.com.
Visit TNQ.ca/parallel to access more of Tanis MacDonald’s writing and teaching tips.
“I don't believe that I would be a writer if I wasn’t Deaf. I think that being born deaf kind of derailed me from the kind of path that, that the men in my family tend to take. My dad worked for CN Rail, and my brother worked for CN Rail, and my dad's dad worked for CN Rail. So being Deaf kind of took me away and steered me away from, from that path and down a more artistic and imaginative path.”
In this episode, Adam Pottle shares the importance of believing in the story you want to tell and how creativity is a necessity for a disabled life. He discusses:
Guest Bio:
Adam Pottle's books include the award-winning novels The Bus and Mantis Dreams, along with the critically acclaimed memoir Voice. His plays include the groundbreaking piece The Black Drum, the world's first-ever all-Deaf musical. He is the only Deaf person in a hearing family, and all his work focuses on disabled characters. He is currently working on the script for a new graphic novel while shopping his new novel Apparitions. He lives in Saskatoon.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Parallel Careers features writers with diverse practices and points of view—writers who are at the top of their game in both craft and pedagogy. Tune in to hear the big ideas and practical tips they take into their classrooms. Take their insights into your own class or craft.
Credits:
Parallel Careers is produced by Claire Tacon, in partnership with The New Quarterly magazine. Erin MacIndoe Sproule is our Technical Producer and Story Editor. Music composed by Amadeo Ventura. Financial and in-kind support provided by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, St. Jerome’s University, and the Government of Canada.
If you like our podcast, please leave a review—it really helps other listeners find our show! Thank you!
Visit TNQ.ca to access more of Adam Pottle’s writing and teaching tips, including web extras about mentorship and cultural appropriation.
You can find Adam’s work here:
Voice. Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness
The Bus
The Black Drum
Beautiful Mutants
“I think that there's something inspiring to students about knowing that I don't come from an academic background. My career experience in my thirties—I was a waitress and a house cleaner. So I think that that's actually a good balance to have in an institute that teaches something creative.”
In this episode, Ayelet Tsabari discusses writing about contested places, giving voice to her community and how stories can resonate in unexpected ways. She discusses:
Guest Bio:
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She wrote her first story in English in 2007. She is the author of The Art of Leaving, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Memoir, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, finalist for the Vine Awards for Nonfiction, and an Apple Books, CBC Books, and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won both the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, and has been published internationally. Her translations appeared in the New Quarterly, Berlin Quarterly, Paper Brigade, and Mantis. She teaches creative writing at The University of King’s College MFA, the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA, and at Tel Aviv University. She lives in Toronto.
About the Podcast:
Parallel Careers is a monthly podcast about the dual lives of writers who teach.
Few writers make their living from publication alone; many fill the gaps with teaching in both academic and community settings. Much of the work is precarious, and there are few opportunities for professional development.
Credits:
Parallel Careers is produced by Claire Tacon, in partnership with The New Quarterly magazine. Erin MacIndoe Sproule is our Technical Producer and Story Editor. Music composed by Amadeo Ventura. Financial and in-kind support provided by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, St. Jerome’s University, and the Government of Canada.
If you like our podcast, please leave a review—it really helps other listeners find our show! Thank you!
Visit TNQ.ca to access more of Ayelet’s writing and teaching tips, including web extras about the vulnerability required by creative non-fiction, and her new anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language.
You can find Ayelet’s work here:
The Art of Leaving
The Best Place on Earth
Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language
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Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Meander Spiral Explode by Jane Allison
The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.