This Black Bear Has 28 Minutes - A Kootenay Arts & Culture Podcast Black Bear Review

HOSTS

Liam Borhaven and Jack Steer



This episode contains:



Interviews: Creative writing students Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson interview Selkirk College students on how they find themselves procrastinating.



Conversations with Writers: An open discussion between guests from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class on procrastination. Do they procrastinate? How do they procrastinate? Do they think deadlines help or hinder them?



Readings: Helen Patterson and Jack Steer read works that they created while procrastinating on school work.

PRODUCTION:

CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2024-2025



Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven



Hosting: Liam Borhaven and Jack Steer



Guests: Helen Patterson, Lazarus Reise and Leesa Dean.



Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS



Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson



This episode contains:



Conversations with Writers: An open discussion between guests from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class on finding and building writing communities. Have they found any before? Are they a part of any now? How do these communities help them in their writing?



Fandoms as Writing Communities: Angelica Dale is interviewed on how belonging to a fandom space and writing fanfiction can help one in their writing and in finding other like minded writers to work with.



Writers Resources: Jack Steer gives three helpful online resources for writers to help motivate, and inspire their writing efforts.



LINKS:


Reedsy Prompts: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/ 

Write the World: https://writetheworld.org/#/dashboard 

NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/


PRODUCTION:

CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2024-2025



Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven



Hosting: Daelen Clark and Helen Patterson



Guests: Angelica Dale, Hannah Macza, Jack Steer, and Leesa Dean.



Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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The Black Bear Review: Unexpected Podcasts from the West Kootenay. Grrr!

HOSTS

Angelica Dale and Daelen Clark



This episode contains:



Writer's Strike Interview: Helen Patterson interviews Jack Steer on the ending of the 2023 WGA strike. What were the issues? What were the concessions? What problems still persist?



Conversations with Writers: An open discussion unfolds between many guests on their views on artificial intelligence in creative fields. How does it threaten creatives? When can it be used ethically?



PRODUCTIONCREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2023-2024



Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven



Hosting: Angelica Dale and Daelen Clark



Guests: Bee Cummings, Helen Patterson, Jack Steer, Krista Love, Leesa Dean, and Liam Borhaven

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS

Liam Borhaven and Helen Kissinger



This episode contains:



~Spooky Stories Special~



Readings: Writers from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class came up with spooky prompts and wrote some poems and short stories based on them.



Conversations With Writers: Writers from Selkirk College's second year creative writing class discuss what makes spooky stories and themes special to them, and a theme most of them coincidentally shared in their writing.

PRODUCTIONCREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2023-2024



Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven



Hosting: Liam Borhaven and Helen Kissinger



Guests: Bee Cummings, Jack Steer, Lauren Strong, Rhydian Neufeld

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/

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HOSTS

Angelica Dale and Helen Kissinger



This episode contains:



Readings: Writers Anne DeGrace, Josh Massey, Leesa Dean and Liam Borhaven were given a set of awkward and usual writing prompts to work with for 15 minutes. Here they are read and discussed.



Teatime: a radio play written by Krista Love




PRODUCTIONCREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2023-2024



Sound and Editing: Liam Borhaven



Hosting: Angelica Dale and Helen Kissinger



Guests: Anne DeGrace, Josh Massey, Krista Love, Leesa Dean, and Liam Borhaven



Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check them out: https://thehillties.bandcamp.com/


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The Black Bear Review: Unexpected Podcasts from the West Kootenay. Grrr!

HOSTS
Jennifer Hammersmark and Cas Haskins

This episode contains:

Conversations With Writers: At your age and stage, why did you decide to take a creative writing class? Featuring Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

Poetry Readings by Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

PRODUCTION
CREDITS - PODCAST COLLECTIVE 2022-2023

Sound and Editing: Cas Haskins

Hosting: Jennifer Hammersmark and Cas Haskins

Guests: Angelica Dale, Bee Cummings, Maria Sofia Briceno Aleman, and Eden Tweed-Welch

Theme Music: excerpt from "Hocus Pocus" courtesy of The Hillties. Check
them out: https://www.thehillties.com/

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The Black Bear Review: Unexpected Podcasts from the West Kootenay. Grrr!