Susan Hewitt is a writer from Northumberland county, UK. She talks about her novel, The Cunning Woman’s Cup, set in her own Northumberland.

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Karen Longwell, a well-known local journalist, has worked for Northumberland News since 2011. She has traveled all over Canada and the world to bring her readers stories. She shares some of them with listeners in this episode.

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Sandra Johnstone is a one-time accountant who lived in Toronto. Her husband Paul decided he should retire and Sandra was persuaded that a life at sea could be a great adventure. They sold their house and belongings and bought a boat… Sandra shares her stories of sailing around the world.

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Marnie Bickle has written many articles about Canadian musicians and composers as well as Opera and the University of Toronto which chronicles the second 25 years of the Opera School. She is rewriting and editing the memoirs of John David Ford, her husband’s great uncle, whose long forgotten memoirs of growing up in the Arctic and adventurous adult life, were found in the attic of her home.

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Kim Aubrey’s short story collection, What We Hold in Our Hands (Demeter Press) was published in 2014. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The New Quarterly, Event, and other journals and anthologies. She is also one of the founders and editors of Red Claw Press

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