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Writing Lessons
Inspiring, informative programs provide valuable insights into the writer’s craft. Featuring literary highlights from TVO’s acclaimed, long-running book show Imprint, 22 programs offer a behind-the-scenes look at the writing life: the challenges, opportunities, rewards, and realities of being an author. With links to creative writing and Canadian literature curricula, programs offer a mix of interviews, panels, min-documentaries, profiles, and features that will interest and benefit both students and aspiring writers. Hosted by Tina Srebotnjak, a seasoned veteran on the literary beat and renowned producer-host of television and radio, Writing Lessons explores diverse perspectives on the writing experience. Audiences gain firsthand advice about many facets and genres of writing, from a wide variety of professional and passionate writers. |
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Poetry and Pop Culture
BPN 883414
-Random Acts of Poetry: a program to get poetry to the people
-a panel discussion on up and coming Poets
-poets on the Radio
-an interview with poet Molly Peaccok
-a poetry performance by Sher-D Wilson
(27:40)
Writers Hone their Craft
BPN 883415
-Creative Writing Classes
-a panel discussion on famous quotes
-Ann-Marie MacDonald on the art of writing
-a profile of two writing groups
-a reading by author Camilla Gibb
(28:00)
East Coast Writers
BPN 883416
-interviews with Newfoundland writers Michael Winter, Lisa Moore and Donna Morrissey
(28:30)
A Writer’s Public Life: The Festival Circuit
BPN 883417
-profile of The Eden Mills Festival
-panel discussion on "the writers life" with international authors attending the Internation Festival of Authors in Toronto
-book signing events of various authors
(27:25)
Writers on Language
BPN 883418
-interview with writer David Mitchell
-panel debate on language
-interview with writer Simon Winchester on his book about the history of the dictionary
-various writers on their grammar pet peeves
(25:24)
Challenges of The Writing Life
BPN 883419
-rejection letters
-2nd novel syndrome
-interview with author Martin Amis
-writers and depression
(29:40)
The Writing Process: Research
BPN 883420
-writers on research involved in writing their books
-various authors on their research adventures
-interview with writer Roddy Doyle
-various authors on the ideal writer's personality
(25:25)
Writing OnLine
BPN 883421
-blogging as a new means to communicate
-panel discussion on electronic books
-writers and their computers
-panel discussion on online book reviews
(28:00)
Alternative Voices
BPN 883422
-graphic novels
-Art Spiegelman, graphic novelist
-John Gould
-Authors on their guilty reading pleasures
(27:50)
Writing Wtih a Social Conscience
BPN 883423
-the writer's role in society
-panel discussion on the novel 1984
-interview with Orwell Biorgrapher Jeffrey Meyers
(29:15)
Writers and Censorship
BPN 883424
-overview of banned books
-interviews with Salman Rushdie
-interview with exiled writer Taslina Nasrin
-authors on their biggest fears
(26:00)
CanLit Pioneers
BPN 883425
-Charlotte Gray on Sisters in the Wilderness Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail
-a reading by the late Robertson Davies
-panel discussion on the future of CanLit - with a tribute to dead authors
-authors on the future of can-lit
(26:20)
Feminist Voices
BPN 883426
-Click - a book by female authors on Feminism
-Naomi Wolfe
-Germaine Greer
-feature on Women's Presses
-a reading by Toronto writer Dionne Brand
(27:00)
Aboriginal Voices
BPN 883427
-Charlotte Gray on Pauline Johnston, the poet
-Six nations Writers Group
-Tomson Highway interview and reading
-Thomas King
(29:05)
International Voices
BPN 883428
-Jeanette Winterson meets her fans
-Afghani writer Khaled Hosseini
-Chitra Banerjee Divakarunni
-authors on their destiny to be a writer
(25:15)
KidLit Beat
BPN 883429
-Adult Authors who write for Kids
-author pak - earliest reading memoires
-silver birch awards
-JK Rowling
-Reading as a child - kids read their favorite books
(27:05)
Writers and God
BPN 883430
-Nino Ricci
-feature on Christian Literature
-Jim Crace
(29:00)
Publishing Options
BPN 883431
-Porcupine's Quill
-authors on self-publishing their books
-Ginger Press
-authors on back-up careers
(27:00)
French Canadian Writers
BPN 883432
-interview with French authors - Michel Tremblay, Monique Proulx, Didier LeClair and Lise Bissonette
(28:50)
Old Gold - Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen
BPN 883433
-interviews with Can-Lit Icons - Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen and Pierre Berton
-various writers describe their ideal writing spaces
(27:20)
Back by Popular Demand: More Poetry
BPN 883434
-spoken word poet Wakefield Brewster
-the allure of Niagara Falls for writers
-Politicians and poetry
-authors' favorite lines from Shakespeare
(27:10)
Publishing Success Stories
BPN 883435
-writers Andrew Pyper and Lillian Nattel - local success stories
-interview with Lauren B Davis
-Cynthia MacDonald on writer block
-various writers discuss - why writers write and the first time they were paid as a writer
(27:40)
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