Thursday, January 18, 2007
The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 11 - Steve Guppy
Widely anthologized novelist, poet, story-writer Steve Guppy lives in Nanaimo and teaches poetry and fiction workshops at Malaspina University-College. On writing: "What I really like, to be honest, is that very subjective thing of having characters in my head. To me it's like a massive crossword puzzle." His last two books are The Work of Mercy (short stories), 2006, which includes "Downwind", short-listed for the Journey Prize; The Fire Thief, a novel.
Topics: mining your life vs researching history; reviews and reviewers in Canada; Hanford Nuclear facility potential impact on B.C.; what's exciting about writing; method of working; the reading he recorded for AuthorsAloud.
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Arts Arisin' - vivienne pearson and bettina matzkuhn and frederick edell
Thursday, January 04, 2007
The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 10 - Carol Windley
Carol Windley was born in Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island and grew up in B.C. and Alberta. In 2002, she won a Western Magazine award for "What Saffi Knows," the opening story in the collection Home Schooling, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Giller prize. Her other books are Breathing Under Water, a novel, and Visible Light, a collection of stories. Carol Windley won the 2007 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, BC Book Awards, for Home Schooling.
Topics: the art of rewriting, the experience of the Giller nomination, the way she works.
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