The Artsy Raven Podcast about Writing and Art with host JF Garrard JF Garrard

Sarah Haasz shares her career journey, how she ended up creating "Gangnam Project" and what inspires her work.



After 20 years as a Broadcast Executive for various
children's programming networks in Canada, Sarah Haasz has taken her robust industry experience directly to kids television production, creating original series and assisting producers in bringing their shows to fruition. Sarah recently wrapped “Gangnam Project”, the live action K-pop drama/comedy series she created and which she'll be talking about today. She also produced the Emmy-nominated “Circuit Breakers”, a live action anthology series for Apple TV, and “Step By Step Let’s Dance," a live action docu dance series for TVO Kids. Sarah is currently working with Cottonwood Media as a Creative Producer on their live action slate and sits on the board of the Youth Media Alliance.  



CBC Gem Gangnam Project page and videos: https://gem.cbc.ca/gangnam-project



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Writer Jesse Zimmerman discusses what inspired him to write, the difficulties of publishing and how he created his main character, "the Challenger" in his first book, Our Adventures with the Challenger.

At time 22:00 he reads from Our Adventures with the Challenger.

Jesse has always lived, worked, and studied in Toronto. Growing up, Jesse enjoyed fiction, particularly speculative fiction and fantasy, anything imaginative. He began writing at a very young age on a DOS computer, creating short stories and little novellas. In his teens he was particularly interested in fantasy, having fond memories of playing Dungeons and Dragons in the late 90s at Jane and Finch, the area he grew up in which led to the creation of the character, "the Challenger." Years later, as an adult, Jesse reimagined the Challenger and began writing stories about him, among other things, having been inspired by the mainstreaming of fantasy fiction in pop culture. The Challenger is a semi-comedic character, though prone to brooding like many famous heroes. Jesse put together numerous Challenger stories into one self-published book, Our Adventures With The Challenger, which he promotes in many ways, including placing copies in Little Free Libraries on lawns and porches throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

Author website: https://junctionlandlord.blogspot.com/2021/12/our-adventures-with-challenger.html

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Author Kit Daven unveils why AI serves as her creative ally, how to utilize AI as a valuable tool to seek feedback on her writing, and why the notion that writers should harbor any fear of AI should be dismissed.

Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Even her sci fantasy series, which begins with The Forgotten Gemstone, unfolds in The Other Castle, and culminates in The Starry Rise, possesses demonly threads running through the trans-dimensional landscape. Her most recent work, The Arrest in Mannequin Row, steps out of the fantasy realm into an urban one, where the living and dead collide in a town beneath the lake waters. Kit enjoys spending her time with her husband and her feline familiars amidst the quiet hills of Hespeler, Ontario.

At time 19:00 she reads from Everyday is Halloween, a short fiction story about the dead coming back and deciding to stay in the world of the living.

Website & Socials

Website: https://www.kitdaven.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kitdaven2

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kitd.eagereye/

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Writer and editor Matthew Gordon shares how he juggles editing eight books at once while writing, researching and working; advice for surviving writing as a marathon and how he manages his time.

Matthew Gordon's short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, in High Shelf Press, in The Quilliad, and in The Exhibitionist. His non-fiction has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Sporting News, The Billfold and on RealGM.com. He has lived in Ontario, New York, Texas and Alberta. He now lives in his hometown of Toronto, Ontario.

At time 21:00 he reads Wound Salter, a short story.

Author website: https://matthewgordonbooks.blogspot.com/

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On the Artsy Raven M.A.C. Farrant describes her journey of becoming a prize-winning writer, the Zenlike process of discovery when she writes and how cows inspired her latest Jigsaw Puzzle book.

M.A.C. Farrant - Marion Farrant has been writing and publishing since the 1980s:  18 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and Toronto Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks.  Along with Pauline Holdstock she ran the Sidney Reading Series from 1994 – 2009.

Her books have been a finalist for many awards, among them the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the Ethel Wilson fiction prize, two Jessie Richardson theatre awards, The Van City Book Prize, the National Magazine Awards, the ReLit Award, the Gemini Awards for the Bravo short film adaptation of her story, Rob’s Guns & Ammo, and the Victoria Book Prize (three times), the last of which she won in 2014 for her collection of miniature fiction, The World Afloat.

Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller.  In 2024, Talon Books will issue the 20th Anniversary Edition of her memoir, My Turquoise Years.

Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. Sheila Munro, has called her “Canada’s most ascerbic and intelligent humourist”. 

Bill Richardson has called her “a master of the Zen-like art of delivering weight in a way that is featherlight”,
further noting that she’s “the most accomplished and unapologetic miniaturist in Canadian letters.”

At time 15:00 she reads from Jigsaw.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._C._Farrant

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Writer Cormack Baldwin describes what it was like growing up in a family of writers, why he started an online zine featuring unusual formats for telling stories, and how he juggles multiple jobs while pursuing a literary career.

Cormack Baldwin is a speculative fiction writer, editor, and disaster human. When frightened, he frequently recounts long tales about his hometown's disappearing and reappearing graveyards or his most recent brush with fate before fleeing into the night.

At time 21:00 he reads his short story Exaltation in Truptych published in the Loves Bites Anthology by Mischief Press.

Links:

Archive of the Odd Zine - archiveoftheodd.wordpress.com

Twitter - @cormackbaldwin

Link to End All Links - cmbaldwin.carrd.co

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