Terry Fallis

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Terry Fallis is a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the award-winning author of seven national bestsellers, including his most recent, Operation Angus, 2021 all published by McClelland & Stewart. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans (2008),won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC Canada Reads as the “essential Canadian novel of the decade.“ . Terry’s fourth novel, No Relation (2014), hit bookstores in May 2014, opened on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list, and won the 2015 Leacock Medal. Terry has written for many publications including Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Toronto Life, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Toronto Star. Terry earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University (1983) where he became engulfed in university politics and somehow persuaded the undergraduates to elect him President of the Students Union.

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Carol Anne Judd

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Today we are rebroadcasting one of our favourite conversations from 2021 with Carol Anne Judd. Carol Anne is a mother, poet, fine arts photographer, multi-faith minister, nurse, and a person with a disability, searching for truth and beauty. She has collected a number of degrees in her travels as well as a voracious appetite for poetry. She has published her poetry in various anthologies and other publications, including her first book of poetry, Sleeping Naked.

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Holiday Readings 2021, Part 2

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Join us this Boxing Day for our second and final holiday show this year. Jessica Outram sings her special version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas, then you can enjoy Tom Pickering’s story of a sledding adventure, which had unexpected results. Felicity Sidnell Reid shares a holiday poem and Les Robling his account of his childhood Christmases in Wales. After the break, Anne -Marie Burrus reads her beautiful poem, Advent and Ronald MacKay closes the programme with his story of a visit by angels on Christmas Eve in a remote part of Tenerife. We hope you enjoy the show. Gwynn, Chris and Felicity send all listeners their best wishes for a happy New Year and good fortune in 2022.

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Holiday readings 2021, part 1

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Today we are airing the first of our holiday shows and sharing with you some of the stories and poems about Christmas and winter by local writers. You’ll hear stories from René Schmidt, Pat Calder, and Chris Cameron, interspersed with poems by Antony di Nardo, Katie Hoogendam and Gwynn Scheltema. We hope you enjoy the show.

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Karin Wells

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Karin Wells is an author, journalist, and lawyer. She is also a sometime actress and worked – briefly – in a pea canning factory. Her recent book “The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose” (Second Story Press, 2020) is the winner of the OHS (Ontario Historical Society) Alison Prentice Award and was short listed for the 2021 Shaughnessy Cohen prize, Canada’s premier award for political writing. She has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. A three time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for investigative journalism, she regularly won international awards and was twice recognized by the United Nations. Karin lives in Port Hope with her little dog Mimi. She is currently working on a new book for Second Story Press: More than a Footnote: How Ten Women Reshaped Their World, due out in Fall of 2022.

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Melody Crowe

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Melody Crowe is an elder of Alderville First Nation. She studied at Trent University, earning not only her Honours BA in Native Studies, but also numerous prizes. And she has been the recipient of many other awards over the course of her career. She has worked tirelessly for the preservation of Ojibway culture and language for more than 25 years and is currently First Nations Education Liaison for Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Through her company, Aandeg Productions, Melody has produced a variety of materials, dedicated to creating a deeper understanding and appreciation of First Nation culture, knowledge, language and wisdom. And she has published a number of books for young readers learning Ojibwe. In this episode, Word on the Hills is honoured that Melody shared a poem she wrote this past summer.

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Paul N Mason

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This week we welcome prize winning writer Paul Nicolas Mason. Paul is the author of four novels. HIs first Battered Soles, nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award in 2005, his latest The Rogue Wave, hailed by Canadian librarians as one of three most anticipated Canadian books published in April of 2021. A successful playwright Paul has written six plays, five of which have been produced and won awards in the USA, and some in Ireland and Canada. Since he retired from teaching Paul has embarked on a new career in voice-acting, film and television. As of October of 2018, he has been involved in some fifty projects, including fifteen feature films and seven network television series. Paul became a member of ACTRA in late 2017.

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Donna Wootton

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This week our guest is Donna Wootton. Donna is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Her nonfiction book about her father, MOON REMEMBERED, was published by Ginger Press. Her novel, What Shirley Missed, was published by Hidden Brook Press. Her poetry about Cuba was published in the anthology The Divinity of Blue. She has a poem and a short story coming out in an anthology called Musings. Her latest novel, Isadora’s Dance, is published by Blue Denim Press. Find out more about Donna at her website https://www.dmwootton.com

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Artists’ Residencies with Ruth Walker, Jean Baird and sophie anne edwards

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Today we are having a different kind of discussion at Word on the Hills: we hear about two Artists’ Residencies one in the Haliburton Highlands and one in Prince Edward County. What is a residency and what does it offer the artists and writers who are so lucky as to be granted one? Ruth E Walker is the co-chair of the Management Committee of the Hall’s Island Artist Residency in Haliburton County. Dr. Jean Baird is an administrator for the Al Purdy A Frame Residency and sophie anne edwards, an interdisciplinary artist, is the current resident at the Al Purdy A Frame House. Sophie was long listed this week for the CBC poetry prize. They will tell about the residencies from their own experience.

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Ruth Clarke

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Ruth Clarke is the author of six books as well as short stories in several anthologies. Before she started writing full-time she worked for decades in the publishing industry. The last time she visited us she read from her first novel, WHAT GOES AROUND, published in 2019, which was set in Costa Rica and Nicaragua where she has wintered for several years. She belongs to a writers’ group in Costa Rica that meets each month via ZOOM, and writes blogs you can find on their site called Mango Musings. When she isn’t in Latin America, she now lives in Bobcaygeon where she grew up. Today she will read to us from TRACES, a work in progress

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