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Cynthia Reyes

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This week we are rebroadcasting an early episode of Word on the Hills with Cynthia Reyes. Cynthia has been a writer all her life.She was a writer and producer for the CBC for many years and won awards both nationally and internationally. Cynthia has given numerous workshops and has taught many memoir writing courses. In this episode she discusses the creation of her own memoirs and reads from A Good Home.

She is also the author, with her daughter Lauren, of a successful series of children’s books about Myrtle the PurpleTurtle. She currently writes a lively blog. Look for her on her own website cynthiareyes.com and on Facebook.

Richard Pope

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This week we welcome Richard Pope. Richard was born in Toronto and lived and birded there until 2006. He is a retired professor of Russian literature and culture. Richard is a long-standing member of the Toronto Ornithological Club, The Ontario Field Ornithologists, and the Willow Beach Field Naturalists. He is the author of a number of books about birds and their relationship to humans. He and his wife, Felicity, live and bird in Cobourg, Ontario. in Cobourg, Ontario.

Mark Whitney

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Mark Whitney grew up and attended high school in Kitchener and Milton Ontario.  After earning a diploma from Sheridan College, he attended night school for an additional seven years, finally earning his accountancy credentials in 1994, solidifying his career in the financial services sector.  After 30 odd year of office drudgery, he retired in 2019 and pursued an ambition that he had harboured for decades.  He wanted to write. His wife of twenty-one years, Joanne Brooks, introduced him to Northumberland County twenty-five years ago.  The scenery and the history of the region has been an inspiration for his writing, providing the backdrop for three of his four books.

Marie-Lynn Hammond

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Alongside a music career as a singer-songwriter and co-founder of the seminal Canadian

Folk group Stringband, Marie-Lynn Hammond has, for the past 40 years,

written magazine and newspaper articles; essays, including over twenty radio essays;

stage plays, all professionally produced; one feature film (co-written); a handful of

short stories; and poetry. More recently she’s co-written, with writer Michael

Kaufman, a young adult novel, Moon Storm Rising, under the pen name Kayden

Quinn.

Moon Storm Rising is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, with strong environmental

themes. And while set in the real world, it features an unusual fantasy element that

perfectly symbolizes the inextricable link between humans and the rest of the natural

world. The book is available on Amazon.

Marie-Lynn has also worked as a copy editor for the last three decades. She copy-

edited Esi Edugyan’s first Giller-Prize winner, Half-Blood Blues, and she’s proofread

or copy-edited books by, among others, Joseph Škvorecký, Linda Spalding, Paul

Watson, and business writer Rod McQueen, and co-translated into French a book of

poems for children by Dennis Lee

Shane Joseph

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WORD ON THE HILLS, Sundays at 1.00 pm, archived at wordonthehills.com

Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Canada. He is the

author of eight novels and three collections of short stories. Shane’s second novel, After

the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, released in 2009, won the Write Canada Award

for best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category. His short fiction and non-fiction have

appeared in literary journals and anthologies all over the world. His blog is widely

syndicated, he has a monthly column in The Sri Lankan Anchorman journal in Toronto

and is the Book Reviews Editor for Devour Art & Lit Canada magazine. His most recent

novel, Victoria Unveiled, will be released in September 2024. Shane is the owner and publisher of Blue Denim Press (www.bluedenimpress.com), a literary press he founded in 2011.

More details on Shane’s work, blog and book reviews can be found on his website

at www.shanejoseph.com.

Sher Leetooze

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Join us for an encore presentation of interviews with Sher Leetooze we made last year. 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, and 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. Sher 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.