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Podcasts

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Podcasting offers an inexpensive and immediate format for getting your work—and voice—out into the world. As it continues to evolve from its radio origins to one of the most accessible and dominant media platforms today, podcasting has become a great tool for both teachers and students alike. We are delighted to offer a selection of recent podcasts featuring professors, students and alumni of the Department of Writing.

Nonfiction Podcast

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Nonfiction Podcast

With David Leach & Deborah Campbell

A conversation between UVic writing professors David Leach and Deborah Campbell (plus guest authors and experts) about the art, craft and ethics of researching, writing and revising creative nonfiction, literary journalism and other forms of nonfiction prose. Fresh episodes drop (almost) every Monday morning.

 

February 7, 2022
Award-winning author J.B. MacKinnon returns to discuss his career in longform narrative nonfiction, the need for structure and intuition, how to keep a reader interested, hissuper-power and his Achilles heel as an author, and why writers need to strike a fine...

January 31, 2022
Co-hosts Deborah Campbell & David Leach talk to literary journalist J.B. MacKinnon about his new book, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves, including the motivation and research process for this globe-hopping...

June 7, 2021
Susan Olding joins Deborah Campbell and David Leach to discuss the art, ethics, and pitfalls of writing nonfiction stories about family members as well as other vulnerable subjects. How does anauthor balance a responsibility for their subjects and for the quest...

May 31, 2021
Susan Olding joins the podcast to discuss her new collection of essays, Big Reader (Freehand Books) and talk about the importance of reading to her life, the differences between the personal essay and the memoir, intuitive vs. engineered structure, research...

April 26, 2021
Deborah Campbell & David Leach discuss the surreal experience of reading in the pandemic, as well as highlights from their favourite books & essays, including memoir, investigativejournalism, essay collections and even a few (very long) novels. BONUS: now with...

March 29, 2021
UVic writing prof David Leach talks to playwright and performer Jivesh Parasnam, co-founder of Rumble and Pandemic Theatres, about memory & the imagination, the problem with identity plays,Hindu philosophy, and the need for satire in our post-pandemic future....

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Skaana | Orcas and Oceans Podcast

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Oceans, orcas, eco-ethics and the environment.

makes waves with our guests, and shares news about Orcas and oceans. Produced by

 

April 25, 2025
Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young breaks out his political pundit persona and talks about the Canadian election, how Trump upended the Canadian election and Canada and why that new baby orca needs aname NOW! A special audience Q&A episode with producer, Bug Lewis,...

April 19, 2025
Arno Kopecky (author The Environmentalist’s Dilemma) on covering Tory leader Pierre Pollution Poilievre’s vs. the environment, Canadian eco-politics and the Greens vs. Greens. When Pierre’s not Trumpy. And whenhe is. And what he’ll ask Pierre Poilievre...

April 2, 2025
Shaking hands with a Giant Pacific Octopus
 Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young shares an excerpt from his new book Octopus Ocean: Geniuses of the Deep.“Mark Leiren-Young’s Octopus Ocean gives young readers a wonderful sense of many aspects of the world of...

March 19, 2025
In 2018 Tahlequah captured the world’s attention when she carried her dead daughter’s body for seventeen days in what became known as the “tour of grief.” The human who shared that story with theworld was Seattle Times reporter, Lynda Mapes. Tahlequah...

February 20, 2025
“In my lifetime I want to eradicate whaling.” – Paul Watson. Paul Watson is out of jail, back in France and still fighting for whales, dolphins, turtles, manatees and more. Paul Watson talks toSkaana host, Mark Leiren-Young, about his arrest and how it...

January 1, 2025
Let the Herring Live! Eric Pelkey is done pretending BC fishers should still be capturing herring. The Community Engagement Coordinator for the W̱SÁNEĆ leadership council talks about a proposedboycott, over-fishing, under-enforcement and the disappearance...

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Suited Up

Suited Up

A positive podcast for aspiring entrepreneurs, created and hosted by 2020 Writing alum Carly Grabher. (Cover art by @delaneytesch)
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January 21, 2022
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by Business Partners' of Eve's Crackers: Eve Laird and Sarah Cartwright. In 2016, Eve was suffering from eczema. Instead of using over-the-counter creams, she was determined to heal her skin through the power of food...

September 24, 2021
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by Anna Bennett.Anna has been recognized as a Pinterest marketing expert by Pinterest themselves. In fact, she was part of their Elite Business Program designed to help businesses leverage the power of Pinterestmarketing....

May 1, 2021
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by Chelsea Goodman.Chelsea is a writer, director and producer from Vancouver, Canada. She founded her production company, Water Flower Studios, in 2014 and made her directorial debut with her short pirate comedicfilm,...

April 1, 2021
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by Emily Mittelstaedt.Emily has always had a strong passion for dance. The ability to discover, absorb, feel and share feelings through physical expression makes her curious, focussed and open. Emily is the CEO andco-founder...

March 1, 2021
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by STIR Cooking School Co-founder and Co-owner Jennifer Leslie. Jennifer is a kinesiologist by trade with additional training in Nutrition and Business.Her career was based on managing a business that specialized in...

January 7, 2021
In this episode of Suited Up, I am joined by Nicole Smith.Nicole is the founder and CEO of Flytographer, the first global marketplace that connects travelers with hand-picked local photographers for fun, vacation photo shoots. She grew Flytographer fromidea...

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Two Young-ish Writers

Two Young-ish Writers

Josh Kozelj

Writing is hard. It can be even harder for young writers to make it. Here, join host & 2020 Writing grad Josh Kozelj and other aspiring writers as they discuss their favourite pieces of work, embarrassing moments and what inspired them to pick up a pen—or type in a computer—in the first place. (Music via Youtube Audio Library: "Dwarf Star" by Freedom Trail Studio)

 

The Indigenous Cultural Evolutionist

The Indigenous Cultural Evolutionist

Kim Senklip Harvey

I am a proud Nation member of the Syilx, and Tsilhqot'in with Ancestral ties to the Dakelh, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa communities and I am an Indigenous theorist and Cultural Evolutionist.

I invite you to share space as I capture readings, conversations and explore Indigenous ways of being to ignite, support and celebrate Indigenous sovereign power, spiritual nourishment and contribute to my communities cultural evolution.

Wáy Slaxts!

A Way Out

 

A mini-series adventure into the unknown depths of the earth and mind, A Way Out is a four-part narrative podcast exploring what happens when an unauthorized cave venture goes wrong, leaving the only qualified person unconscious. Scripted by three Writing majors (Megan Adachi, Brianna Bock and Megan Hands) plus one Theatre student (Justin Francis Lee), A Way Out was created via The Canadian Play Thing’s “Apartment of Writing”, a collective of emerging playwrights that uses the writer’s room model from TV to create stories.