Writers' Guild of Alberta Podcast

St. Albert author D.A. VandenBrink reads from his supernatural thriller The Crimson Dimension, followed by a Q&A led by WGA Summer Programs Assistant and WordsWorth Creative Team member Sadie MacGillivray. Buy The Crimson Dimension here: https://www.davandenbrink.com/books D.A. (Doug) VandenBrink is a local author living in St. Albert. He’s a husband, father, and grandfather who works for an Edmon...

Spruce Grove poet Lynn Gale reads from her new poetry collection l’opacité, followed by a Q&A led by WGA Board Vice President and Write Well Press founder Leanne Myggland-Carter. Lynn Gale lives in Spruce Grove, Alberta with her husband of 30+ years and spends her days working as the payroll supervisor for the City of Spruce Grove. In July 2017 she started her own business, Windsong Writing and We...

Calgary author Judith Clark reads from her YA novel Under the Radar, followed by a Q&A led by fellow Calgary YA author Janet Gurtler. This is a prerecorded event that premiered on Wednesday, July 15. Judith Clark is a playwright, novelist, and indexer. After receiving a Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS), she worked as a children’s and young adult services librarian, before taking on...

Anishinaabe author Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane will read from her children’s nonfiction book Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance, followed by a Q&A led by fellow children’s nonfiction author Joan Marie Galat. Viewers will have the chance to send questions during the event. Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane is an Anishinaabe dancer, educator, writer, artist and orator from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoul...

Calgary author Doreen Vanderstoop will read from her literary dystopian novel, Watershed, followed by a Q&A led by WGA Treasurer Susan Carpenter. Doreen Vanderstoop is a Calgary-based writer whose short fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire Magazine and online at Montreal Serai, prairiejournal.org, epiphmag.com, and Alexandra Writers’ Centre, among others. Doreen’s debut novel, Watershed, was publi...

In our first installment of our 2020 online reading series, Amy LeBlanc reads from her debut poetry collection, I Know Something You Don’t Know. Amy LeBlanc is an MA student in English Literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary and non-fiction editor at filling Station magazine. Amy’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, was published with Gordon Hill Press i...

Louise Bernice Halfe, whose Cree name is Sky Dancer, is married with two adult children and three grandsons. Raised on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta, she attended Blue Quills Residential School before earning a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Regina. She completed two years of Nechi Training in St. Albert’s Nechi Institute: Centre of Indigenous Learning, where she has also faci...

Shannon Webb-Campbell is a mixed Indigenous (Mi’kmaq) settler poet, writer, and critic. Her books include: Still No Word (Breakwater 2015), the recipient of Eagle Canada’s Out in Print Award, I Am A Body of Land (Book*hug 2019), and Lunar Tides (forthcoming with Book*hug in 2022). Shannon holds a MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia, and a MA in English Literature at Memoria...

J.R. Carpenter is a UK-based artist, writer, performer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Born in Nova Scotia, she lived in Montreal for many years before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 2009. Her pioneering web-based works have been presented in museums, galleries, and festivals around the world. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, the QWF...

The WGA is proud to partner with the Canadian Literature Centre on their Brown Bag Lunch podcasts. The Brown Bag Lunch readings were always a popular in-person event and now they have moved online. The first episode features Rebecca Thomas. Original air date: November 18, 2020.

Canadian Literature Centre's Brown Bag Lunch reading series. Canisia Lubrin reads from her various collections. Original air date: October 28 2020

The WGA is proud to partner with the Canadian Literature Centre on their Brown Bag Lunch podcasts. The Brown Bag Lunch readings were always a popular in-person event and now they have moved online. The first episode features Jen Sookfong Lee. Original air date: September 18, 2020.

Co-Hosts Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic parlent avec Pierrette Requier, author of DETAILS FROM THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE (Frontenac House, 2009) and Edmonton's 6th Poet Laureate. As we sip a Merlot by Bartier Bros. paired with Pierrette's poetry, we discuss bilingualism, motherhood, and the upcoming braided poetry event: SHE, THE RIVER.

Joshua Littlechild is a member of the Ermineskin Cree Nation at Maskwacis. His heritage is of Cree and Sioux ancestry. In this episode discuss Storytelling practices from different cultures and the Cultural Protocol that surrounds knowledge keeping and transferring.

In our last episode for this season, we dive into our reflections of the project. Specifically, we discuss thoughts going forward, improvements, what we actually learned. We also discuss the importance of paying for work and acknowledge the information given to us from our amazing guests.

This episode we sit down with Dr. Chris Andersen, the current Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. We chat about publishing books and articles as an academic; what a career in the academy means for many first generation Indigenous scholars, and creative non-fiction publishing.

Dec 2. Let's Get Lit: Claire Kelly by Writers' Guild of Alberta

Our conversation this week is with Brittany Johnson, a Métis Ph.d student from the University of Alberta’s department of English and Film Studies. She also performs burlesque under the stage name of Fanny LuPhine; and we talk about the ways that burlesque can be one way that stories are told. We also discuss endometriosis, poetry, creative writing, horror movies and country music.

This episode we got the chance to speak with Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet from North Eastern Alberta. She has written many works, notably: A Really Good Brown Girl, The Pemmican Eaters, and That Tongued Belonging. Marilyn also teaches creative writing in Native Studies and English at the University of Alberta. We discuss the writing process, what it’s like to have memories captured in writing...

Here is our conversation with award-winning author Norma Dunning about her book Annie Muktuk and Other Stories Please note that this was our first time using Skype for recording, so we hope that the quality of the conversation can help to make up for the quality of the audio.

An Interview with Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain, hosts of Métis in Space to chat about storytelling in the podcasting medium.

What is predatory publishing and what does it have to do with cultural appropriation? It’s just us for this episode as we delve into this topic.

An interview with Gabrielle LaMontagne about her newest project: a Michif picture book about Lac Ste. Anne!

An interview with Paul Gareau about his experiences writing and editing in academia.

An interview with Tammy Ball about the book she is currently writing which tells her story of growing up Métis in St. Ambroise, Manitoba.