Interviews

“Poetry condenses what prose expands.” —Lloyd Ratzlaff For their Tributaries series, All Lit Up chatted with Lloyd Ratzlaff about his debut collection Walking Upstream, which is about overcoming a harsh evangelical upbringing and seeking consolation from the beauty of the natural world. Check out the interview here.

Sharon Berg chats with Thistledown author Marlis Wesseler about her novel The Beech Forest in this interview for The Temz Review! Check out the interview here. “Primo Levi wrote, comparing normal life to life in the camps, that we live in the ‘comfort and suffering’ of our own homes. I wanted to highlight an ordinary

In case you missed it, Leanne Shirtliffe appeared on Calgary’s CONNECT with Sarah Crosbie for a special feature about The Genius Hour Project! Listen to the “Sarah Cr-oliday 2024 Special” linked below or listen to it on Spotify.

Guy Vanderhaeghe chats with Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC’s The Sunday Magazine and looks back on what shaped him as a writer. Check out the interview here.

Marlis Wesseler has a chat with Dennis Rimmer about her latest novel The Beech Forest, writing, and publishing in episode 271 of Talkingbooksandstuff Podcast. Listen to the episode here.

“Earning enough money to keep writing is the toughest part of being a writer.” Check out All Lit Up’s latest Writer’s Block interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe! Guy answers five rapid-fire questions about writing, books, and his latest, Because Somebody Asked Me To. You can find the interview here.

“What I need to do is go on to the next book, and to say to myself, ‘Hope that every book that you write is a better book than the last book. And that without that, there is not much point to doing this.’” Listen to this special feature interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe on CBC’s

Click here to read an interview with Trevor Herriot in Trail & Landscape about his novel, The Economy of Sparrows.

Check out the latest episode of the Talkingbooksandstuff Podcast to hear John Bemrose chat with Dennis Rimmer about The River Twice.

Tune in below to hear Connie Gault speak with CBC’s Shauna Powers about her novel THE RASMUSSEN PAPERS!

Check out this fine interview with David Carpenter in Prairie Books NOW where he talks about hunting, monsters, and his new book of nature essays I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like: A Memoir. “Bless them all, the apex predators, and the people who see that carnivorous creatures and their habitat are sacred.”David Carpenter

Tune in here to listen to David Carpenter chat with CBC Saskatchewan’s Shauna Powers about his book of nature essays I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like: A Memoir. Rattlesnakes in Arizona! Wolves up close! And plenty more here.