'I came to fiction as a poet first, meaning: I don’t really know how to write a linear narrative! Linear is not how I live.'
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Jody Chan, winner of the 2024 Open Season Fiction Award, chats with us about their piece 'After, Words.'
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'Beaver dams hold back water & canals spread it out... The result: a verdant valley bottom that doesn’t burn.'

Loved this The Colorado Sun feature on the firefighting skills of our semiaquatic saviors, feat. (who else?) Dr. Emily Fairfax (+ an Eager shoutout).

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I wwas thrilled and honored to be writing the foreword for a Penguin Classic paperback, and even more so for Mary Shelley's other sci-fi novel. Literary Hub republished that essay today. lithub.com/a-woman-out-of…

I am so pleased to share the shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction! The five books are: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, Daughter by Claudia Dey, Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote, Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan, and A History of Burning by Janika Oza.

Tonight on CBC Radio's Ideas: Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) speaks with Nahlah Ayed about statelessness, invisibility, reimagining belonging and her new book Ghost Citizens.

Listen at 8pm on CBC Radio 📻 or online here!

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I drove a big truck and then made a podcast about it. It's on the radio machines tonight in Canada and on the podcast machines already everywhere.

Here is the truck I drove. So fast. So wobbly-ly. This guy in the picture was my instructor.

When Kabul fell, Biden promised to rescue Afghan allies. For 14-year-old Rezwan Kohistani and his family, that meant being sent to a remote Missouri town where no other Afghans lived. “We’d been left alone,” said Rezwan’s father. propublica.org/article/missou…

Listen to Writers' Trust award-winner Christina Sharpe being absolutely brilliant with CBC Radio's Ideas:
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Tonight on CBC Radio's Ideas: Healing the Land, Part 2: From Eden Ecology to Indigenous Ecology. cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Thanks to the Ts'kw'aylaxw, Xwísten, and T'it'q'et-P'egp'íg'lha First Nations, the Indigenous Ecology Lab led by Dr. Jennifer Grenz & Lillooet Regional Invasive Species Society.

I wrote about the effort to decipher sperm whale language with artificial intelligence.

I reached out to philosophers, linguists, animal rights lawyers, marine biologists, field scientists who specialize in whales, and paleontologists. Assume that this works, I told them.

Thread of CTV departures. Brutal.

A Pennsylvania pastor was fired by his church for a pro-LGTB message. He decided to run for a local office to denounce the deadly conditions in the local jail.

He scored a shock upset and flipped a county government, after running a shoestring campaign. boltsmag.org/dauphin-county…

It was wonderful to get to interview Maydianne Andrade about R. C. Lewontin’s 1990 Massey Lectures, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA, at Massey College today. Coming to CBC Radio's Ideas later this season!

“As I witness the destruction of Gaza from afar, I remember my own city, Homs, in Syria…I know the grief, nostalgia, estrangement & suffering that will emerge when the world’s gaze shifts to another war yet to come,” writes ammar azzouz 📿 عمّار عزّوز for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A crash course on hinge moments in history and the lines that could be drawn to the mess that is the world today. Five part series. Produced by Pauline Holdsworth and Philip Coulter. cbc.ca/radio/ideas/fi…

It was great to be a part of yet another CBC Ideas episode with Nahlah Ayed this time with Oleksa Drachewych and Renee Worringer on 'The Year 1919: Dividing the Spoils.' cbc.ca/player/play/23… Queen's History

The year 1938, a 'hinge year.' Recorded this wild panel conversation with CBC Idea's Nahlah Ayed at Stratford. History matters because, tragically, it often repeats itself. Pauline Holdsworth Listen here:
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And learn more about the series here:
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