This week we present our final holiday show for 2023. This is an encore presentation and you’ll hear stories from Les Robling, Tom Pickering (read by Chris Cameron) and from Ronald Mackay. Jessica Outram sings a Christmas song and Anne–Marie Burrus and Felicity Sidnell Reid read a poem. Please join us!
Happy New Year to all our listeners!
Join us to revisit our Christmas show for 2017. Gwynn and Felicity read Christmas stories and poems by famous as well as less well known authors and wish you our listeners a very happy Christmas and New Year
Welcome to our new holiday program for 2023, with music from Matt Kowalyk , and poems from Gwynn Scheltema, Katie Hoogendam, and Felicity Sidnell Reid. Especially written for this episode, there are short stories by Ron Mackay, a long time member of our writing community in Northumberland, now living in the Netherlands, but still keeping in touch and from Chris Cameron our guest co-host today, with a story about a writer who seeks inspiration and to break his writer’s block by retreating to a cabin in the snowy forest.
Please join us today and enjoy encore presentations of some of our previous Christmas shows in the last weeks of December.
With all best wishes for the holidays and for 2024 from all at Word on the Hills.
This week’s programme is a rerun of our interview with Frances Boyle who visited Cobourg last spring to give a reading for The Cobourg Poetry Workshop’s Third Thursday Readings series. Frances is, most recently, the author of Openwork and Limestone (Frontenac House, 2022). Her earlier books are the poetry collections This White Nest (Quattro Books, 2019) and Light-carved Passages (BuschekBooks 2014), Seeking Shade (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2020) an award-winning short story collection, and Tower, (Fish Gotta Swim Editions, 2019), a novella. Frances’s writing has appeared throughout North America and internationally. Raised in Regina, she has long made Ottawa home, with involvement in the literary community including serving on the board of Arc Poetry Magazine for more than 10 years.
This week we welcome Sher Leetooze for another visit with us. Sher
wanted to write all through school, and to that end submitted material to the annual High School Year Book. In 1994 she published her first local history book and it was an instant success.
Sher went on to publish the history of all the other townships in the former county where she lives. From this sprang other books, WW1 Nursing Sisters, Clarington’s Home Children, a History of
the Churches of Old Durham. In between these she wrote a trilogy following the people known as Bible Christians from England to their new homes in Canada. She then went on to compile genealogy source books, gardening books, wild plant books and a couple of cook books. Her latest endeavour has been in the world of fiction – a book of short stories, a novella, The Queen’s Pawn, and a novel just about ready to go to the printer called Finding Sean McRory.
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