On this special episode we will be featuring our first year creative writing students showing us their wonderful works of poetry! We will also be having some discussions with them as well, talking about where they draw their inspiration and what their poetry means to them.

Host - Vlad Tanasescu

First Years:

Jess Treijs

Ana Cano Bates 

Jordyn Baird 

Logan Hale 

Second Year interviewers:

Elizabeth Nolasco

Meenakshy Balaraju

Alexandra Bryanton 

Vlad Tanasescu

Theme Music: “Kooteney Mystery” by Vlad Tanasescu

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On today's episode we will be delving in to the fascinating world of the lesser known sub genres in literature. We will be talking about things like Cosmic Horror and Dark academia featuring some works like Call of Cthulhu or Solaris. Stay tuned to learn more about your favourite sub genre!

Host - Vlad Tanasescu

Podcast Producer - Vlad Tanasescu

Co-Host - Elizabeth Nolasco

Participants:

Gabrielle Asbell

Amelia Higgins

Alexandra Bryanton

Vlad Tanasescu

Elizabeth Nolasco

Theme Music: “Kooteney Mystery” by Vlad Tanasescu

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On this episode of This Black Bear Has 28 Minutes we are going to be talking about our favourite characters and why we relate to them as readers. We will be having some characters from famous books and shows like The Martian and Game Of Thrones as well as plenty of other compelling ones as well. Why do we appreciate them, relate to them, maybe even make a fan club for them? Tune in to find out!

Host - Vlad Tanasescu

Podcast Producer - Vlad Tanasescu

Co-Host - Elizabeth Nolasco

Participants:

Samuel Maffioli

Amelia Higgins

Alexandra Bryanton

Vlad Tanasescu

Elizabeth Nolasco

Theme Music: “Kooteney Mystery” by Vlad Tanasescu

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HOSTS

Lazarus Reise and Jack Steer

This episode contains:

Conversations with Writers: An open discussion between guests from Selkirk College's second and first year creative writing students who are passionate about world building. What are their favourite examples of world building, what are the most important elements and some advice on how to world build.

Readings: Vlad Tanasescu and Lazarus Reise read excerpts from their short stories with immersively built worlds.

PRODUCTION:

CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2024-2025

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Lazarus Reise and Jack Steer

Guests: Liam Borhaven and Vlad Tanasescu

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS

Liam Borhaven and Jack Steer

This episode contains:

Interviews: Creative writing students Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson interview Selkirk College students on how they find themselves procrastinating.

Conversations with Writers: An open discussion between guests from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class on procrastination. Do they procrastinate? How do they procrastinate? Do they think deadlines help or hinder them?

Readings: Helen Patterson and Jack Steer read works that they created while procrastinating on school work.

PRODUCTION:

CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2024-2025

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Liam Borhaven and Jack Steer

Guests: Helen Patterson, Lazarus Reise and Leesa Dean.

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HOSTS

Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson

This episode contains:

Conversations with Writers: An open discussion between guests from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class on finding and building writing communities. Have they found any before? Are they a part of any now? How do these communities help them in their writing?

Fandoms as Writing Communities: Angelica Dale is interviewed on how belonging to a fandom space and writing fanfiction can help one in their writing and in finding other like minded writers to work with.

Writers Resources: Jack Steer gives three helpful online resources for writers to help motivate, and inspire their writing efforts.

LINKS:

Reedsy Prompts: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/ 

Write the World: https://writetheworld.org/#/dashboard 

NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/

CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2024-2025

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson

Guests: Angelica Dale, Hannah Macza, Jack Steer, and Leesa Dean.

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS

Angelica Dale and Daelen Clark

This episode contains:

Writer's Strike Interview: Helen Patterson interviews Jack Steer on the ending of the 2023 WGA strike. What were the issues? What were the concessions? What problems still persist?

Conversations with Writers: An open discussion unfolds between many guests on their views on artificial intelligence in creative fields. How does it threaten creatives? When can it be used ethically?

PRODUCTION
CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2023-2024

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Angelica Dale and Daelen Clark

Guests: Bee Cummings, Helen Patterson, Jack Steer, Krista Love, Leesa Dean, and Liam Borhaven

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS

Liam Borhaven and Helen Kissinger

This episode contains:

~Spooky Stories Special~

Readings: Writers from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class came up with spooky prompts and wrote some poems and short stories based on them.

Conversations With Writers: Writers from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class discuss what makes spooky stories and themes special to them, and a theme most of them coincidentally shared in their writing.

PRODUCTION
CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2023-2024

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Liam Borhaven and Helen Kissinger

Guests: Bee Cummings, Jack Steer, Lauren Strong, Rhydian Neufeld

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HOSTS

Angelica Dale and Helen Kissinger

This episode contains:

Readings: Writers Anne DeGrace, Josh Massey, Leesa Dean and Liam Borhaven were given a set of awkward and usual writing prompts to work with for 15 minutes. Here they are read and discussed.

Teatime: a radio play written by Krista Love

Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven

Hosting: Angelica Dale and Helen Kissinger

Guests: Anne DeGrace, Josh Massey, Krista Love, Leesa Dean, and Liam Borhaven

HOSTS

This episode contains:

Conversations With Writers: At your age and stage, why did you decide to take a creative writing class? Featuring Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

Poetry Readings by Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

PRODUCTION

Sound and Editing: Cas Haskins

Hosting: Jennifer Hammersmark and Cas Haskins

Guests: Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

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