Meet Felicity Sidnell Reid. While Felicity taught high school English, History, ESL and Drama for the TDSB, she also wrote poetry and short stories, two mystery novels with a friend, designed costumes for university, school and amateur dramatic societies and directed school plays. She is the author of ESL is Everybody’s Business (with Frances Parkin) and a series of textbooks for language learners. Her books include: Alone: A Winter in the Woods (Hidden Brook Press, 2015, e-book in 2020), The Yellow Magnolia (Glentula Press 2021)and The Many Faces (Aeolus House, 2022 e-book 2023). Her poetry, short fiction and memoir have been published in anthologies, journals and collections. She is the co-producer and cohost of Word on the Hills in which the hosts interview area writers and invite them to read from their work. This programme has been running on Northumberland 89.7 FM for eleven years. She is presently secretary of the Board of Directors for Northumberland Festival of the Arts, 2024.
Word on the Hills
Karin Wells
This show is an encore presentation of Karin Wells’ discussion of and readings from her book More than a Footnote. KARIN WELLS is an author, journalist, and lawyer. She is also a sometime actress and worked – briefly – in a pea canning factory. Her latest book, More than a Footnote: Canadian Women You Should Know, is a curious and often irreverent look at ten Canadian women who have been forgotten or ignored. Her 2020 book The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose (Second Story Press) was the winner of the OHS (Ontario Historical Society) Alison Prentice Award and short listed for the 2021 Shaughnessy Cohen prize. She regularly contributes to Watershed Magazine focussing on life in Northumberland, Quinte and Prince Edward County. Karin has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. Over her career she worked in more than fifty countries making radio documentaries for CBC radio’s The Sunday Edition, hosted by Michael Enright. Her radio documentary work made her a three time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award for investigative journalism.
Karin Wells lives in Port Hope with her little dogs Mimi and Darwin. She is currently working on a new book for Second Story Press and a podcast for CBC Radio based on More than a Footnote.
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