All Write in Sin City

 Sean Kelly—who has performed with artists including Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), Nelly Furtado, Lee Aaron, Coney Hatch, Helix, Gilby Clarke, Rough Trade, Glass Tiger’s Alan Frew, Harlequin, Honeymoon Suite, and Crash Kelly—brings an insider’s perspective to the guitars, players, and culture that defined a generation.  His latest book is: Battle Axes: A Hard Rockin’ History of Pointy Guitars publi...

Marie-Joseé Poission joins us to talk about her novel, Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties, published by Guernica Editions. In the novel, successful Montreal communications executive Lou Ashby travels to Paris to trace her ancestry. There, she meets Geoffrey, an academic with a national museum, who is entrusted with finding the story behind a blood-stained gown found in the walls of a palace. Togeth...

André Narbonne is a scholar, a poet, the author of four books, and also the publisher of Conspiracy Press, based in Windsor, Ontario. His short fiction has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories, won the FreeFall Literary Contest, the David Adams Richards Prize, and the Atlantic Writing Contest. His first collection of short fiction, Twelve Miles to Midnight, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danut...

In this episode of The Reading List, Canadian author Sean Paul Bedell shares his inspiration drawn his paramedic life and a short excerpt from his novel The Shoebox.  Author Sean Paul Bedell's second book, Shoebox, is published by Now or Never Publishing. In this gritty, emotional novel, Steve Lewis, a dedicated paramedic, faces the emotional aftermath of a fatal accident that casts a shadow...

JENNIFER LOVEGROVE is the author of the Giller Prize–longlisted novel Watch How We Walk , as well as three poetry collections: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes ( longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award), I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel , and The Dagger Between Her Teeth . Her latest poetry collection is The Tinder Sonnets, published by Book*hug Press in Spring 2026. Jennifer LoveGrove div...

Don Gillmor is the author of To the River , which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels, Cherry Beach , Breaking and Entering , Long Change , Mount Pleasant , and Kanata ; a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History ; and nine books for children, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Wal...

Fartumo Kusow is a high school English teacher, novelist, podcaster, activist, and mother of five who lives in Windsor, Ontario. Born in Somalia, Fartumo immigrated to Canada in 1991, at the start of the civil war, with fluency in Somali and Arabic but not English, and went on to earn two degrees. Fartumo Kusow first appeared on this podcast in 2020, chatting about her second novel which was her d...

This episode is an excerpt of a longer interview with Jim Johnstone.  Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Chemical Life , which was shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award. Johnstone has also won several awards, including the Bliss Carman Poetry Award, a CBC Literary Award, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Robi...

Jim Daniels has authored more than thirty collections of poetry, seven collections of fiction, and one collection of essays, and has written four produced screenplays. He has also edited or co-edited six anthologies, most recently RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music . He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. H...

This podcast is an excerpt of a longer episode featuring an author interview with Marcello DiCintio. Marcello Di Cintio is the prize-winning author of six books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, and Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers. He has also written for the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The International New York Ti...

This podcast is an excerpt of a longer episode featuring an interview with poet Vida Cross.  Vida Cross is a Visiting Fulbright Research Chair who has come to the University of Windsor at the invitation of Leddy Library and the Black Scholars Institute. She has been conducting intensive research towards a creative writing project, focusing on Underground Railroad journeys to the Detroit River Bord...

This podcast is an excerpt of a longer episode also featuring an interview with Hollay Ghadery.  Hollay Ghadery is an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/...

This episode covers a new anthology from Wayne State University Press. Titled Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors, this vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season from an urban perspective. These emerging and award-winning creators of all ages recount the struggles and triumph of staking their claim to public spaces. Ranging from...

Featured Guest: Michael Mirolla About our guest:  MICHAEL MIROLLA’s awards for novella, short fiction, novels, and poetry include the 2020 Hamilton Literary Award for fiction, as well as three Bressani Prizes. He has been awarded writers’ residencies at Vancouver’s Historic Joy Kogawa House, in Olot, Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, and most recently, the Regina Public Library from 2025-2026 and a vir...

Happy Canada Day! To celebrate Canada’s 159th birthday, we’re offering up a few selections from early Canadian poets. Enjoy these short readings from our country’s literary history. Poems read in this episode include: The Old Red Shirt by Rebecca Gibbs Marshlands by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Women's Rights by Anna Louisa Walker At Niagara (1911 version) by R. Nathaniel Dett The Blue F...

Recently, the Amherstburg Freedom Museum hosted a virtual book launch for Cheryl Thompson’s latest work, Staging Blackface in Canada, which was published in April 2026 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. We’re sharing a portion of that very interesting discussion. Cheryl Thompson lives in Toronto and is the author of Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 18...

Don Gillmor is the author of To the River , which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels, Cherry Beach , Breaking and Entering , Long Change , Mount Pleasant , and Kanata ; a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History ; and nine books for children, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Wal...

Fartumo Kusow is a high school English teacher, novelist, podcaster, activist, and mother of five who lives in Windsor, Ontario. Born in Somalia, Fartumo immigrated to Canada in 1991, at the start of the civil war, with fluency in Somali and Arabic but not English, and went on to earn two degrees. Fartumo Kusow first appeared on this podcast in 2020, chatting about her second novel which was her d...

Curtis Chin is the author of the award-winning memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant . The restaurant of the title was a popular downtown Detroit eatery owned by his family for generations. Chin was recently in Windsor, kicking off his five-stop Canadian book tour. A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the nonprofit&a...

Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Chemical Life , which was shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award. Johnstone has also won several awards, including the Bliss Carman Poetry Award, a CBC Literary Award, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Robin Blaser Award, and Poetry's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing. Cu...

In this episode, we are delighted to welcome students from the University of Windsor’s 2026 Publishing Practicum course. Together with some stand-out Canadian Poets, including Rosemary Sullivan, Molly Peacock, Dan MacDonald, and G.A. Grisenthwaite, the students talk about their unique new book of poems and recipes, The Poet’s Cookbook published by Conspiracy Press.  In this episode, the announcer...

Marcello Di Cintio is the prize-winning author of six books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades , Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense , and Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers . He has also written for the Globe and Mail , The Walrus , The International New York Times , and Canadian Geographic , among others. He lives in Calgary. His latest work for Windsor’s...

Vida Cross is a Visiting Fulbright Research Chair who has come to the University of Windsor at the invitation of Leddy Library and the Black Scholars Institute. She has been conducting intensive research towards a creative writing project, focusing on Underground Railroad journeys to the Detroit River Borderlands and especially to Canadian communities in the region. Vida is a blues poet, a two-tim...

Hollay Ghadery is an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. Fuse , her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Since then, she’s produced a collection of poetry, Rebellion Box , a short-fiction colle...

Lisa de Nikolits is the award-winning author of twelve published novels.  She has appeared on recommended reading lists for Open Book Toronto, 49th Shelf, Chatelaine , Canadian Living , Hello ! Canada, the Quill & Quire, and most recently, the CBC’s 65 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in Fall 2022. Her book The Occult Persuasion and The Anarchist’s Solution was longlisted for a Sunburst...