This week’s episode is an encore presentation of an episode we made with Terry Fallis, in which we interviewed Terry and he reads from his tenth, and most recent novel, The Marionette.
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Mia Burrus
This week we welcome Mia Musée Mia Burrus Mia is a writer and artist who lives in a restored one-room schoolhouse in the country north of Cobourg. But her passion is using words, images and found objects to explore the boundaries and spaces between what is spoken and silent, solid and ephemeral, known and unknowable, crafting poems, essays, and multi-dimensional, mixed-media artworks. Mia’s latest book, a memoir entitled As If Through a Window, was published in September 2025. This book, in a mix of genres, tells the intertwined tales of her father, and the cattle ranch that occupied half his life. Several of her assemblage artworks have been included in Juried Shows at the Colborne Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Northumberland. Her works may also be viewed at her own museum, her website!
Christopher Cameron
This week we are delighted to have Christopher Cameron join us for another visit. Christopher Cameron enjoyed a successful career as a professional opera singer, retiring in 2009 after 33 years in the business. A dozen years ago he began a new career as a freelance writer and editor. His first book, a memoir of his singing years, Dr.Bartolo’s Umbrella and Other Tales from my Surprising Operatic Life (Seraphim Editions), was published in 2017. His book of humorous fiction, Thorneside Stories: A Mix of Sun and Cloud (Iguana Books), was published in September 2022. This past fall, his one-act play Nail Polish – originally presented at the 2022 NFOTA – was performed at the Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays, where its cast won a special award for their performance. He has written for and performed at Westben Centre for Connection and Creativity through Music, most recently a two-part presentation on hearing loss and music, a topic on which he has written extensively.
Liminal Spaces
This week’s episode features a discussion of the collaborative anthology of ekphrastic poetry, LIMINAL SPACES, with its authors, Katie Hoogendam, Kathryn MacDonald, Felicity Sidnell Reid and Gwynn Scheltema. Join us for an introduction to this form of poetry and an explanation of how the collection came together as well as readings from some of the poems in the book.
Final Holiday show for 2025
Welcome on this December 28th to the final show in our holiday schedule for 2025. This is an encore presentation of a Christmas show we made in 2017. Maureen Mullally, reads a poem that she and her late husband Bryan worked on together called Two Old Gents. Felicity Sidnell Reid shares her story, Stage Struck, Ron MacKay gives us his story, My Papa Invites Angels and Gwynn Scheltema reads her story, set in Africa, about her mother’s gardener and his search for mistletoe. We hope you enjoy this episode and wish you a Happy New Year!
Holiday Episode 3 the new show for 2025
This is our new episode for Word on the Hills for the 2025 holidays. Old friends and new join together to entertain you while you prepare for winter feasts and celebrations. There are stories, freshly written, from Ronald McKay and Christopher Cameron, music from Shannon Linton and poems from Phylliss Wright, Katie Hoogendam and Antony Di Nardo among others. Join us as we air our celebration of the holidays and wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Second Holiday Show 2025
This programme if an encore presentation of our show for December 20, 2020. Join our holiday celebration hosted by Chris Cameron and enjoy poetry from Katie Hoogendam, Kim Aubrey and Felicity Sidnell Reid, a story by Donna Wootton and music from Jessica Outram and Marie-Lynn Hammond, who both wrote songs specially for this programme. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Gwynn, Chris and Felicity.
First holiday show 2025
This week we begin our December run of previously shared holiday shows. Today we hear story-tellers, Lynn Bilton reading a story for Ron Mackay, Chris Cameron drawing us into the life of small-town Canada as he reads from his book Thorneside Stories and various poets with poems about winter, Christmas, the Winter Solstice and other celebrations.
We hope you’ll enjoy this series.
Linda Hutsell Manning
This week we are pleased to re-run a programme we made with Linda Hutsell Manning in the fall of 2023. Linda has published four picture books, three juvenile plays, two mid-grade novels and Polka Dot Door scripts as well as a literary novel, That Summer in Franklin, a two-act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, a memoir, Fearless and Determined about her 1960’s teaching experiences a one room elementary school west of Cobourg. Her latest picture book, Finding Moufette, was released in 2023. A novella, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, was released in 2024 and another small book was published this year called The Killing Room. These are available in local bookstores and on Amazon. Linda has also written many pieces of short fiction and poetry published in magazines. Find out more at lindahutsellmanning.ca.
Lionel Bennett
Lionel Bennett grew up an air force brat. His father, Gordon Bennett, was in the RCAF, and was stationed in different locations in Canada, the U.S. and France. Lionel attended University, in Ottawa, but did not think about writing until much later. He had an assortment of jobs before starting a career as an insurance broker for over forty years. It was during that time that he took a fiction writing course at Loyalist College and a seed was planted. After his retirement from insurance, the writing seed sprouted and his first book was published in February 2024. He is currently writing his second book while enjoying life at his home north of Marmora with his wife Laurane on the shores of the Crowe River. He is a member of the Canadian Heritage Warplane Museum, an active member of Westben and sings in the Festival Chorus.
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