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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Allyson Tufts is a devoted hockey Mom who has written about her experiences with and reflections about minor hockey and published these in her book, Lessons from Behind the Glass.

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For over 20 years Sher Leetooze has been researching, writing and publishing books about Old Durham County. Her latest book is called WWI Nursing Sisters of Old Durham County,  published in 2014.

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Ruth Clarke joins us to discuss her new work a collection of short fiction and memoir about her time in Mexico.

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Don McKay, who publishes as W. D. McKay. is an author and photographer who recently decided he should start to publish. He has written a science fiction trilogy, titled The Lanark Chronicles, which was released in 2013-2014.

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Christopher Canniff’s and Shane Joseph’s novels share similar backgrounds. Here WOTH rebroadcasts their interview about The Poor Man’s Galapagos and In the Shadow of the Conquistador,  both books published by Blue Denim Press.

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Campbellford artist, Klarissa Kocsis talks about her work and the collection of her pictures into a  book of her art and commentary on this by poets and prose writers who are familiar with it.

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