Welcome once again to Word on the Hills with me Felicity Sidnell Reid and our studio editor Anne Sidnell. This week we’re broadcasting our new Christmas program for 2024. Our guests today are storytellers well known to you, Gwynn Scheltema, Christopher Cameron, Ron Mackay and poet, Katie Hoogendam. Gwynn’s story, set in Zimbabwe, recalls how her mother celebrated Christmas in a tropical setting, while Ron’s story is about a young woman struggling to achieve her ambitions in Tenerife. Chris has once again written a new story for this show and Katie will read one of her collection of poems, which she has just released as a chapbook to celebrate the Winter Solstice.
Gwynn Scheltema
Gwynn Scheltema
After over 20 years of diversified experience in accounting, education, and administration GWYNN SCHELTEMA decided to stop counting beans and start counting words. Since then, Gwynn has been a columnist, magazine article writer, ghost writer and a fiction editor for Lichen Arts & Letters Preview literary journal. Her award-winning fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and, Ten of Diamonds was published in 2021 by Glentula Press. Her latest poetry collection Everchild was published by Aeolus House in 2023. Gwynn co-hosts and co-produces Word on the Hills radio series on Northumberland 89.7FM and writes, edits, coaches and teaches creative writing. At present however her focus is on the preparations for NFOTA24 which she leads. This year the festival will take place in September again and Gwynn is here to tell us all about it.
Gwynn Scheltema
After over 20 years of diversified experience in accounting, education, and administration Gwynn Scheltema decided to stop counting beans and start counting words. Since then, Gwynn has been a columnist, magazine article writer, ghost writer and a fiction editor for Lichen Arts & Letters Preview literary journal. Her award-winning fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and, Ten of Diamonds was published in 2021 by Glentula Press. Her latest poetry collection Everchild was published by Aeolus House in 2023. Gwynn co-hosts and co-produces Word on the Hills radio series on Northumberland 89.7FM and writes, edits, coaches and teaches creative writing. At present however her focus is on the preparations for NFOTA24 which she leads. This year the festival will take place in September again and Gwynn is here to tell us all about it.
Holiday Show for Christmas Eve 2023
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
Gwynn Scheltema
Today we talk with Gwynn Scheltema, an award-winning fiction writer and poet whose work has been published online and in print in various media. Many of her stories and poems are influenced by her experiences growing up in Africa. Fascinated by words, she enjoys sharing her love of language and has taught for over 25 years in community and private colleges at conferences and many workshops. With her business partner, Ruth Walker, she runs Writescape.ca, which offers coaching, editing, writers workshops and retreats. She is the co-host of Word on the Hills which has been running on 89.7 FM since the fall of 2013. She is also the president of Northumberland Festival of the Arts and will be deeply engaged in this volunteer work for the arts in the coming months as NFOTA prepares for the 2024 festival. Her most recent publications are two books of poetry; a chapbook entitled Ten of Diamonds (Glentula Press, 2021) and a new collection of poems, Everchild, published by Aeolus House and released this month.
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Gwynn Scheltema
This week we welcome our co-host Gwynn Scheltema as our guest. After over 20 years of diversified experience in accounting, education, and administration Gwynn Scheltema decided to stop counting beans and start counting words. Since then, Gwynn has been a columnist, magazine article writer, ghost writer and a fiction editor for Lichen Arts & Letters Preview literary journal. Her award-winning fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and her latest poetry publication, Ten of Diamonds was published in 2021 by Glentula Press. She co-hosts Word on the Hills radio show on Northumberland 89.7FM, and writes, edits, coaches and teaches creative writing through her business Writescape.
Gwynn is also the president of Northumberland Festival of the Arts and headed up the Steering Committee for the festival which took place from September 16th and successfully concluded on October 2nd.
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Gwynn Scheltema and Felicity Sidnell Reid
Gwynn Scheltema’s poetry has been published in anthologies, journals and magazines in Canada, Europe and South Africa, online and in print. She is one of five featured poets in One Ticket Five Rides. (Whirling Dervish Press). Gwynn writes from her peaceful home on the shores of Lake Seymour on the Trent Severn Waterway system in Ontario, Canada, but she was born and raised amid drought and dust and civil war in Southern Africa. These two contrasting landscapes vie for attention in her writing. Ten of Diamonds was her COVID project, published in June this year.
Felicity Sidnell Reid is a poet who also writes short stories and nonfiction. Many of her poems have been published in anthologies, in print and online journals, magazines and blogs. Her novel, Alone: A Winter in the Woods was released by Hidden Brook Press in 2015 and published as an e-book in 2020. She is the co-editor with Kim Aubrey of Our Pandemic Times, A Journal in Times of Pandemic and Lockdown. (Blue Denim Press 2021.) She released The Yellow Magnolia and Other Poems in June 2021.
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