All Write in Sin City

A special episode for you in the midst of the Fall Literary Festival Season! The wonderful poets Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver recently appeared at Biblioasis Bookstore.  Their publisher, Dan Wells introduces them. Episode edited for length. Enjoy these dynamic readings! Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and theatre maker. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new choral work...

A resident of Erie Beach, Ontario, Ian Kennedy is a secondary school teacher and journalist with a passion for sport and storytelling. In 2011, he founded CKSN (Chatham-Kent Sports Network), an online news outlet covering both amateur and professional athletes. His reporting has been featured on radio, in newspapers and publications that include The Hockey News, Canadian Horse Journal and Outdoor...

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is a poet, children’s writer, and all-around generalist when it comes to writing. Her books for children run the gamut from board books, Toesy Toes to YA Breathing Fire , with a whole bunch of picture books in-between. Her poetry books Sweet Devilry (winner of the Gerald Lampert) and Status Update (nominated for the Pat Lowther) are a mix of traditional forms, lyric, and invent...

Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Stéfanie Clermont travelled throughout Canada and the United States, working at a wide variety of jobs, before settling in Montreal in 2012. Le jeu de la musique , her first book, was published in 2017. For this work, she won the prestigious Prix Ringuet of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council’s prize for a new work by a young artist,...

Kim Conklin is a writer, filmmaker, and podcaster. Kim’s stories, poems and films have appeared in journals, anthologies, and film festivals. Her journalism has appeared in broadcast and print, and her communications work has received more than 15 awards, including a Clio and a NY International Film Festival award. Her first novel, King of Hope releases in October, 2022 with Palimpsest Press, and...

ALEXANDER MacLEOD was born in Inverness, Cape Breton, and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is the author of two internationally acclaimed books of fiction: Light Lifting , with Windsor’s Biblioasis, a winner of an Atlantic Book Award, and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, and the Commonwealth Book Pr...

Former Detroiter Kimberly Garrett Brown is the Publisher and Executive Editor of Minerva Rising Press. Her work has appeared in Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, The Feminist Collective, Compass Literary Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman, Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus and elsewhere.   Cora’s Kitchen is her first novel, due out in September 2022 fr...

David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking , won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David’s work has been published in magazines such as The Walrus , Maisonneuve , e...

On April 22, 2022, Literary Arts Windsor and BookFest Windsor with funding from the Canadian Heritage Canadian Arts and Performance Fund celebrated a new outdoor and although very cool and rainy, well-attended event at Lanspeary Park in Windsor: BookFest Equinoxe. We welcomed wonderful musicians, but for rights issues, you’ll just hear the fabulous poetry and conversation with Alex-Andrei (Alexei)...

Cindy Hunter Morgan is the author of Harborless , a book of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, which was published by Wayne State University Press. It was a 2018 Michigan Notable Book and the winner of the 2017 Moveen Prize in Poetry. Apple Season won the Midwest Writing Center's 2012 Chapbook Contest, and The Sultan, The Skater, The Bicycle Maker won The Ledge Press 2011 Poetry Chapbo...

Rosemary Nixon is a short story writer, novelist, editor and creative writing teacher. She has served as the Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2011. Recently she returned as Writer in Residence in January and February of 2022.  Nixon’s first collection of short stories, Mostly Country , was shortlisted for the Howard O’Hagan Award; she won it with her second collection, The Cock’...

Born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Peter Hrastovec is the author of two books of poetry, In Lieu of Flowers and Sidelines . He was also a contributor to the writing project Because We Have All Lived Here . Peter practises law, advocates for his community and embraces the joys of grandparenthood with his wife, Denise https://blackmosspress.com/product/there-will-be-fish/ https://www.fitzhenry.ca/...

On March 19, 2022, a virtual launch was held for a wonderful project called the Community Anthology, published by A Beautiful Place Publishing House, a part of Gertrude’s Writing Room owned by our friend Vanessa Shields.   With poetry from 65 contributors from three continents, eight countries, four Canadian provinces, and four American states, the Community Anthology is a great celebration of wha...

Christopher Lawrence Menard is a writer of stage, screen, fiction & poetry, actor, producer, director, and singer. He was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario where his love and work with local arts and artists led him to his career as the City of Windsor’s Cultural Development Coordinator where he works to support the efforts of the arts, culture, and heritage communities in Windsor. He is a p...

Featured Guest: Rochelle Riley About our guest:   Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as an award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. She now guides the city’s investment in the creative economy and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. She offers commentary on MSNBC and NPR and contributes to Essence and Ebony mag...

Emma Odrach is an author and literary translator from Toronto, who now calls Windsor home. Alaska or Bust and Other Stories was published by Crimson Cloak Publishing in Missouri in 2017. Her translation of novel Wave of Terror , written by her late father, Theodore Odrach and dealing with the Stalinist occupation during WW2, was published by Chicago Review Press in 2008. She won an honorable menti...

Featured Guests - The Hosts!  Kim Conklin, Irene Moore Davis, Sarah Jarvis On today’s episode of All Write in Sin City, we thought we’d mark and celebrate our 100 episodes so far. We’re going to look back on a few episodes that stood out for each of us in different ways. We loved all of our guests, and all of our episodes – but well, you’ll see how we’ve selected them.    We’ll share some lovely f...

Featured Guests: Elaine Weeks and Chris Edwards  About our guests:  Elaine has a B.A. in English from the University of Windsor plus two years of  postgraduate studies in Visual Arts. She’s a community leader with over 30 years experience in advertising, public relations, event planning, publishing, writing, editing, photography, conservation and heritage preservation. She’s written a novel called...

  The Occasion: In October 2021, something wonderful and astonishing happened: three authors published by small but mighty Windsor-based Palimpsest Press were nominated for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards: Sadiqa de Meijer for non-fiction, G.A. Grisenthwaite for fiction, and Tolu Oloruntoba for poetry. In November, Sadiqa de Meijer and Tolu Oloruntoba were indeed announced as two of th...

Robert Earl Stewart’s first collection of poetry, Something Burned Along the Southern Border (Mansfield Press), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems have been published in journals in Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain. In 2010, he received the Windsor Endowment for the Arts’ grant for Emerging Artist in Literary Arts. His poetry has appeared in magazines, journals and...

A native of Detroit, Jim Daniels is the author of numerous collections of poetry and short stories. He’s also written four produced screenplays, collaborated with photographer Charlee Brodsky on gallery shows and publication projects including the book street, which won the Tillie Olsen Prize, and he has edited or co-edited six anthologies. He currently lives in Pittsburgh and is the Thomas S. Bak...

A retired history teacher and veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, William Toffan lives in Windsor, Ontario, with his wife, Laura, and children Lauren, Heidi, Oksana, and Heather. Published by Biblioasis in the fall of 2020, his first book is Watching the Devil Dance: How a Spree Killer Slipped through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System. http://biblioasis.com/brand/toffan-will/

Erin Bartels is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, 2020 WFWA Star Award–winner, and a 2019 Christy Award finalist. Other books include The Words between Us, a 2020 Christy Award finalist and 2015 WFWA Rising Star Award–winner, and All That We Carried, released in January 2021. Her short story “This Elegant Ruin” was a finalist in The Saturday Eveni...

Margaret Christakos is a widely published award-winning poet, fiction author, critic, and creative writing instructor. Her work has won the ReLit Award for Poetry and the Bliss Carman Award, has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Award twice, and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She was appointed Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004–2005, served as Ca...

Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books. Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa won the Henry Kriesel Award for Best First Book. Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey into the Heart of Iran won the Wilfred Eggleston Prize for Best Nonfiction at the Alberta Book Awards. Walls: Travels Along the Barricades and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense were both winners of the W. O. Mitc...