All Write in Sin City

Marian L. Thorpe grew up in Harrow, Ontario. She holds a Masters in Biology from the University of Guelph, and has recently retired as a Special Education supervisor at a school district in Ontario. Marian is the author of the alternative world medieval trilogy Empire’s Legacy . The series was rated Top Ten (#5, #7, and #8) in Alternate History, on Amazon.com, April 8, 2019.  Her life-long interes...

This week's podcast takes place at Gertrude’s Writing Room on the grounds of historic Willistead Manor in Windsor. We talk with two authors of very different genres who just happen to be married. They live in Windsor with adjoining writing spaces and their menagerie of animals. Alexander Zelenyj is the author of the books Blacker Against the Deep Dark, Songs for the Lost, Experiments at 3 Bil...

This week’s podcast brings you a variety of Detroit poets reading at Poets and Pies, a regular event hosted by the Detroit Writers’ Guild. This set of readings was recorded in August at the St. Clair Shores library.  Joyce Jenkins is a Detroit native who has spent much of her life in Berkeley, California. Joyce has long been a noted Bay Area poet and the editor of “Poetry Flash,” as well as the pr...

Last week on All Write in Sin City, we talked with Teajai Travis, Windsor activist, artist and writer and also the recipient of the 2018 City of Windsor Heritage Grant. One of his recent projects is the Windsor Storytellers Collective. He and two other artists recently kicked off their first experimental, collaborative spoken-word presentation at the Green Bean Cafe.   Titled Wordz!, the sound and...

Teajai Travis is a proud and mindful descendant of Afro-indigenous ancestors who survived slavery in the Americas and settled in North Buxton, Ontario prior to the American Civil War. Teajai’s relations spread across the North American continent, and abroad. Teajai researches and writes about his ancestors, specifically those in the Americas during a time of chattel slavery. He is inspired by the...

How did one of the shining cities on the hill in mid-century North America become the poster child for de-industrialization? In this All Write in Sin City, you’ll hear Part Two of a presentation by Anna Clark, talking about her award-winning book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy .  Anna continues her commentary about the Flint water crisis, and takes a look at possi...

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit. The Poisoned City was named one of the year’s best books by the Washing...

This podcast features two outdoor readings from the Woodbridge Farm Writer's Retreat Reading Series in Kingsville, Ontario. Windsor Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern reads selected poems from her seven books, and Alix Hawley reads from her award-winning historical fiction series about the life of Daniel Boone. Mary Ann Mulhern holds a Masters of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the Universi...

This podcast features two award-winning speculative fiction authors reading to a live audience at Windsor’s Phog Lounge. Coming to us from London Ontario, Timothy S. Johnston is an award-winning writer of futuristic and contemporary mystery/thrillers. He has won multiple awards including the CYGNUS, the CLUE , and the Science Fiction Epic Award. In this episode, he reads from his lates award-winni...

Part Two of last week's podcast, a live recording of a recent interview with award-winning fiction author Casey Plett, recorded at Biblioasis bookstore. Windsor poet Vanessa Shields is the interviewer. Casey Plett is the author of the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love and the novel Little Fish, which won this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Lamda Literary Award. I...

In this podcast, you'll hear a live and lively recording of a special event in Windsor. Today, you’ll hear Part One of a recent interview with award-winning fiction author Casey Plett, recorded at Biblioasis bookstore. Windsor poet Vanessa Shields is the interviewer. Casey Plett is the author of the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love   and the novel Little Fish, which won this year&ap...

This episode was recorded in the cozy library at All Saints’ Church in downtown Windsor. It usually has the advantage of being quiet, intimate, and full of actual books, however today we shared the hallway with excited folks from the Arts Collective Theatre (ACT) company which also rents space from All Saints’. It’s all part of being embedded in the lively Windsor-Essex arts scene!  Josef Bastian,...

In this episode, we'll talk with author and University of Windsor faculty member, Heidi Jacobs about her new novel inspired by the historic Daniel Defoe novel, Moll Flanders. We'll also hear a clip of Christian Laforet of Adventure Worlds Press reading from his new novel at the ChiSeries Reading at Windsor's premier downtown music venue, the Phog Lounge. Born and raised in Edmonton,...

This episode launches our mobile studio, and we talk to an Essex County native who writes for money and for love, and a powerful speculative fiction writer. We recorded this show in the cozy library at All Saints’ Church in downtown Windsor. Essex County native Van Waffle drops by from his home in Waterloo to talk about his writing. Van makes his living writing freelance for various nature and hea...

This podcast is a wide-ranging, extended conversation with M.L. Liebler, an internationally known and widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer, and also an editor. M.L.’s work has received many awards, but most recently, Heaven Was Detroit, the anthology that he edited about the history of the Detroit music scene from jazz to hip-hop and beyond...

On this episode, we talk with two of Windsor’s favorite genre authors Christian Laforet and Ben Van Dongen. These authors have a special relationship: They’re friends, they’re both genre authors, and they are both publishers at Adventure Worlds Press, based here in Windsor.  Christian and Ben have worked hard at hand-selling books, and they’ve been successful at it. Today, they’ll both talk about...

This episode of All Write in Sin City features Windsor poet Vanessa Shields. She talks about her new book of poetry, now in production with Windsor-based publisher Palimpsest Press. She also shares her process for writing poetry, and talks a bit about her new venture, Gertrude’s Writing Room, a place where writers of all ages and interests can come hone their craft and get inspired.   We’ll also f...

New York Times bestselling author Elly Blake stops by to talk about her Frostblood trilogy in our first show. We also feature  Sarah, Irene and Kim telling the short story about how All Write in Sin City began,  and we reveal the Spring List of Recommended local books, curated by Juniper Books in Windsor.  Elly Blake’s books, Frostblood, Fireblood, and Nightblood, are widely available, and you can...