Watershed Writers with Tanis MacDonald

Tanis MacDonald talks to author Mariam Pirbhai about her new book, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging about how we interact with 'The Land,' be it a garden in the suburbs, a cottage in the woods, or the place our ancestors call home.

Tanis MacDonald sits down with Susan Fish to talk about her process in writing her third novel, Renaissance, and her use of literature as a way to explore our shared humanity.

This week, host Tanis MacDonald talks to Erin Bow about winning the Newbery and Schneider Family Book Award honours, and about her latest novel, Simon Sort of Says and the challenges of writing the disability experience.

Tanis MacDonald talks with BC Cedric Award For Poetry winner Susan Braley whose new book "Tilling The Darkness" explores gender and class identity in rural southwestern Ontario

Tanis MacDonald is joined by the celebrated and prolific Kitchener poet Chris Banks to discuss the speed of life in the 21st Century, writing metaphors for anxiety, and using humour to cast light on the heaviest subjects.

Host Tanis MacDonald brings us Anuja Varghese, winner of the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction to discuss her genre-bending use of gothic elements in the familiar settings of her horror-adjacent dark fiction in Chrysalis (2023).

Join host Tanis MacDonald in conversation with author & mentor Carrie Snyder on her career writing through real-life FRICTION — & how her writing is informed by her busy life in the Grand River community.

Tanis MacDonald sits down with Alison Fishburn to talk about purity culture, writing about class and finding fellowship as an author, and her award-winning performance in her one-woman play... Church Boyfriends and Other Impure Thoughts.

Tanis MacDonald hosts Sarah Tolmie to laugh about medieval literature, learn about Sarah's *astonishing* novella-writing process, and discover the meaning of WEIRD FICTION!

Carol Duncan talks to host Tanis MacDonald about writing short stories inflected with Caribbean history and culture, and about her research roots when writing the historical fantastic.