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Season 4, Episode 6 Wrestling with internal angels. Author Ian Colford gives us insight into how his book A Dark House & Other Stories will draw us into situations and characte...

Season 4, Episode 5 Stories of an orphanage: as told by children who lived there. Author and journalist Lois Legge recounts some of the real life stories that inspired her to write...

Season 4, Episode 4 Where once gushed joy: Writing from the Wound. Following the sudden death of her adult son, celebrated and beloved children’s author Sheree Fitch departs from h...

Season 4, Episode 3 Welcoming children into the Great Village of Elizabeth Bishop. As author of the children’s book A Pocket of Time: The Poetic Childhood of Elizabeth Bishop, poet...

Season 4, Episode 2 The Legacy of Residential Schools. Reflecting on her personal history, I’m Finding My Talk, award-winning spoken-word artist, Mi’kmaw activist and former Halifa...

Season 4, Episode 1 A Community of Communities. Before the Parade author Rebecca Rose shines a light on how 1970s & 80s gay, lesbian and bisexual activists led Halifax out of t...

Season 3, Episode 9 The Poetry of Art Illustrator Emma Fitzgerald on how her early studies in architecture, a fated bike ride on a Bass River chair and a chance meeting brought her...

Season 3, Episode 8: The Soul of Cuisine. Author, broadcaster and developmental editor-at-large Simon Thibault explains how his maternal lineage helped him explore Acadian cuisine ...

Season 3, Episode 7: And maple trees lining the way… Author Wanda Baxter on the rhythm, feeling and childlike wonder behind writing If I Had An Old House On the East Coast....

Season 3, Episode 6: Sidney Crosby and the Whirlpool clothes dryer. Author, creative writing professor and publisher Lesley Choyce on how he was inspired to write a spirited and fu...

Season 3, Episode 5: Unravelling the fabric of self. Author and barkeeper Kris Bertin openly reflects on the wide range of human experience and our universal search for identity in...

Season 3, Episode 4: One page at a time. Author Daphne Greer on how she stitched together the inspiration of a Belgian convent’s boarding school with themes of abandonment, family,...