The Write Project

Interview with Kerri Cull, poet behind Soak. Kerri Cull is from the small mill town of Corner Brook on the West Coast of Newfoundland. She has been a bartender, bookseller, waitress, administrator, radio show host, columnist, instructor, and is the creator of The Book Fridge. She currently lives in Labrador. Pick up Rock Paper Sex using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3ZFrNZq Origin...

Erin Vance is an editor and award-winning, bestselling author from Newfoundland, Canada. In 2007 she won the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters competition with her short story “Something White.” Since 2016, she has co-helmed the bestselling From the Rock series through seven volumes. Her poem, Rough Draft , is featured in the Nelson Literacy 7 Homegrown (Newfoundland Edition). She is cr...

Comics can return a long-studied writer to the purest form of reading: reading for enjoyment. Reading for the sake of reading. Today, thirteen richly talented Breakwater authors reveal their favorite comic book (or comic book character)! Rebecca Rose, President & Publisher Ainsley Hawthorne,  Land of Many Shores Kerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex: Trigger Warning Claire Wilkshire, author of...

On of the most intrepid poets in the St. John's poetry scene, Samm Joyy sits down with us to share her wit and wisdom during Write Project's poetry month celebration! Pickup Samm's debut collection, A Decade , using this link to help the channel! Originally broadcast on April 10, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Listen on CHMR...

Interview with Daze Jefferies,  author of 'TransVersing' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books and 'Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us' published through Engen Books. Pick up Land of Many Shores using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8HQ9E Originally broadcast on April 05, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. Joh...

It's poetry month! Let's kick it off with questions with Jason Normore, beloved fixture of the poetry scene in St. John's Newfoundland! Originally broadcast on April 03, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out  As Loved Our Fathers , the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB It's a...

We all have things we'd like to change about our writing style. If you could go back and whisper something to your younger writing-self, what would it be? If you could impart that to a new author in the industry, what would you say? Featuring: Rebecca Rose, President and Publisher Claire Wilkshire, author of The Love Olympics Prajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of Dwipa Gemma Hickey, author o...

 Interview with AJ Ryan, editor of Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us published through Engen Books, and author of Secret of the Ohks from the Slipstreamers series. Pick up Acceptance using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3La03Yh Originally broadcast on March 27, 2023 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.  Check out  As Loved O...

Every so often, a special book comes along that changes what we think about fiction. What it can do. What it can accomplish. These books are especially poignant for authors, at it affects how we live out lives. How we craft our stories. 8 authors share these moments with you. Featuring: Rebecca Rose, President and Publisher Daze Jefferies - Land of Many Shores / TransVersing / ' Acceptance &a...

Interview with Shannon Fay, author of External Forces , available now from 47North! From the cover: A mage for the British royals matches wits with a power-mad old foe in a beguiling novel of enchantments and daring by Shannon Fay, author of Innate Magic. London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It’s not a seamless pa...

Ainsley Hawthorn, Ph. D., (she/her) is a cultural historian, author, and multidisciplinary artist. Raised in Steady Brook, NL, and now based in St. John’s, she earned her doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. Her expertise includes sensory studies, Mesopotamian literature and religion, Middle Eastern dance, and the history of language. Hawthorn is a past fellow...

Interview with Kassie Lukeman, the author of  "Arrested Decay," sitting member on the board of the Women's Work Festival, and stage manager with New Found Family Drama! Kassie Lukeman is a theatre practitioner with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University’s Grenfell campus. Born and raised in Corner Brook, NL, her playwriting deals with themes of identity and history on the...

Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love. Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John’s. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, releases or envelops us. The stories are smart, witty, funny, warm, and surprising; they capture...

RETURN TO THE RONIN-VERSE! In the smash-hit miniseries TMNT: The Last Ronin , readers were taken on a pulse-pounding trek through time—past, present, future—to witness the final gut-wrenching days of the Heroes in a Half Shell. For Michelangelo in particular, the march to his heartbreaking last battle was long and dangerous, taking him from New York City, to Japan, across Asia and Europe, and then...

Ainsley Hawthorn, Ph. D., (she/her) is a cultural historian, author, and multidisciplinary artist. Raised in Steady Brook, NL, and now based in St. John’s, she earned her doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. Her expertise includes sensory studies, Mesopotamian literature and religion, Middle Eastern dance, and the history of language. Hawthorn is a past fellow...

Erin Vance is an editor and award-winning, bestselling author from Newfoundland, Canada. In 2007 she won the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters competition with her short story “Something White.” Since 2016, she has co-helmed the bestselling From the Rock series through seven volumes. Her poem, Rough Draft , is featured in the Nelson Literacy 7 Homegrown (Newfoundland Edition). She is cr...

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people living with mental or physical disabilities and other undervalued and hidden voices are coming to the forefront, with...

Interview with Peter Breau, author of Deliver Us from Evil! Peter Breau doesn’t leap tall building with a single bound but he does write about heroes who do. Peter is a comic book, screen and fiction writer. He is currently lead writer for Mississippi Zombie, published by Antarctic Press, along with Indie Wars , Those Damn Kids , and Deliver Us from Evil . Originally broadcast on February 20, 2023...

Shelly Kawaja’s writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Post-Colonial Text, and PACE. Her short story “Shotgun” won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly has an MA from Memorial University and is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at UBC. She lives in Norris Point and manages the Writers at Woody Poi...

Born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Andrew Marc Rowe had no idea that the human psyche and the nature of reality were going to end up as his prime fascinations in life. Perhaps he had more than an inkling that he would wake up one morning as a jock doing sports things, given his penchant for nerdiness like mythology and fantasy and science fiction, but matters of...

Claire Wilkshire is a writer, editor, translator and teacher living in St. John’s with her husband, writer Larry Mathews. They have two adult children. Maxine (2013) is Claire’s first novel. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Grain , the New Quarterly , Event , and the Fiddlehead. She’s a founding member of the Burning Rock writing group. Pick up The Love Olympics using this li...

It's one of the weirder questions we ask people, granted, but the answers are always fun! For real: if you took all your writing, every last little thing you had in print, and you put it in a cauldron or some such during a magic spell... what animal would pop out of that thing? Featuring from Breakwater Books Ltd .: Dr. Richard Elcock, contributor to Us, Now Tzu-Hao Hsu, contributor to Us, No...

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people living with mental or physical disabilities and other undervalued and hidden voices are coming to the forefront, with...

Christine Rains is a multi-genre writer, book blogger, and geek mom. When she's not playing games with her son, she's playing games with her friends. She has four degrees which do not help at all with motherhood but make her a great Jeopardy player. Christine has four novels and several novellas and short stories published. She is a member of Untethered Realms and S.C.I.F.I. Her writing...

Shelly Kawaja’s writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Post-Colonial Text, and PACE. Her short story “Shotgun” won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly has an MA from Memorial University and is currently completing an MFA in creative writing at UBC. She lives in Norris Point and manages the Writers at Woody Poi...