Crow Reads Podcast

Rayanne Haines

At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors from across Canada. Crow Reads is recorded on Treaty 6 territory the traditional home of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations people. Crow Reads focuses on providing a variety of perspectives and experiences across the literary landscape in Canada all with the eye to offering something new and interesting to our listeners as they think about developing literary careers.

  1. 5d ago

    Luciana Erregue-Sacchi

    On this episode of Crow Reads I talk with author, and publisher Luciana Erregue-Sacchi about her publishing house Laberinto Press, anthologies, and building community and claiming space in the publishing world. Luciana is an award-winning publisher (Laberinto Press), art historian, translator, author (Of Mothers and Madonna, Polyglot 2023) and cultural worker. Luciana has presented at LitFest, Edmonton Poetry Fest, and Banff Centre. She coordinated the WGA Horizons Writers Circle. She has presented at the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University. Her work and translations have appeared in academic publications, Polyglot Magazine, AGNI, and others and she has been featured on CBC Edmonton, Radio Canada, Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, Westword, and Edmonton Journal. She is an activist for freedom to read and an advocate for hyphened Canadian literature. Laberinto Press is an independent publishing house located in Edmonton, Alberta, founded in 2020 by Argentinian-Canadian Luciana Erregue-Sacchi. The primary mandate is to publish diverse, complex literature by diaspora and hyphen-Canadian authors. The press actively seeks to bypass tokenism by focusing on deep, substantive storytelling from cultural minorities. You can find out more about the press at this link - https://laberintopress.com/ Thier latest release is Beyond the Concert Hall and you can find out more about that anthology here - https://laberintopress.com/beyond-the-concert-hall

    Luciana Erregue-Sacchi

  2. Jul 16

    Adriana Onita

    In this episode I talk with Adriana Oniță, poet, artist, educator, translator, and researcher with a PhD in arts-based language education about her new book, DESCÂNTEC FOR MY SPLIT TONGUE, a collection that gathers English-Romanian poems that travel across generations, homelands, and dreamscapes to ask: what do we lose when we lose a language? We also talk about the importance of multilingual writing and publishing and the reclaiming of heritage language.

    Adriana Onita

  3. Apr 28

    Anna Veprinska - Wound Archive

    In honour of National Poetry Month, in this episode, I speak with poet and scholar Anna Veprinska about her masterfully crafted poetry collection Wound Archive. We discuss the completeness of fragments and the resistance to closure, the use of white space and punctuation, and the editing process within compression. Anna Veprinska is the author of the poetry collections Wound Archive (Porcupine's Quill, 2026), Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025), and Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas Press, 2014). She is also the author of the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She was a finalist twice for the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has been shortlisted twice for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence, and was a winner of the ChinookPoetry Contest. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Wound Archive is a collection of minimalist poems that archives the wound left by the concurrent ending of a relationship and the beginning of a chronic invisible illness. These poems comprise a fragmented archive in which woundedness turns language—figuratively and at times formally—upside down. The symbol of the wound recurs throughout, punctuating the ways both heartbreak and illness are experienced in the body.

    Anna Veprinska - Wound Archive

  4. Mar 16

    Scott Alexander Howard

    In this episode we speak with Scott Alexander Howard about his award winning book, The Other Valley. Scott Alexander Howard has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his research focused on the relationship between emotion and memory. His debut novel, The Other Valley, was a Washington Post notable novel of 2024, a CBC best book of the year, a PBS Book Club pick, and the winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. And now, is the 2026 MacEwan University book of the year.The Other Valley has been translated into five languages and is being developed as a television series by Working Title Films and Universal Studios. Howard lives in Vancouver, where he is working on his second novel. We discuss moral dilemmas, writing flawed and nuanced characters, navigating the rules of time and the philosophy of breaking rule.

    Scott Alexander Howard

  5. Jan 30

    Carissa Halton

    In this episode I talk with author Carissa Halton about her debut novel Revolution Songs along with discussing research within place, how researching real people can help a writer with character development, the ways strategic planning can support a writer’s career, and writing historical fiction with authenticity, even when the truth of that authenticity is problematic. Carissa Halton is an awarding-winning writer whose fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in the Post-Media Newspapers, Today’s Parent, Alberta Views, The Tyee, CBC among others. Her book of essays, Little Yellow House Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, was a finalist for the 2019 Edmonton Book Prize. Revolution Songs is her debut novel. In her work life, Carissa runs Halton Strategic, where she works with teams and boards to find common ground. She lives in Treaty 6, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. About the Book:Annie Jalmer stands uneasily between opposing allegiances inher 1930s Rocky Mountain town. As the radical politics of herfamily inflame tensions, Annie becomes an unwilling double agent until a violent strike forces her to take a stand. Revolution Songs is the electrifying debut novel by award-winning writer Carissa Halton, inspired by the little-known story of a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, andthe women who fought on both sides. Set against the charged backdrop of Depression-era politics, Halton weaves athrilling and timely story that echoes the rising polarization of our own era. Carissa Halton is an awarding-winning writer whose fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in the Post-Media Newspapers, Today’s Parent, Alberta Views, The Tyee, CBC among others. Her book of essays, Little Yellow House Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, was a finalist for the 2019 Edmonton Book Prize. Revolution Songs is her debut novel. In her work life, Carissa runs Halton Strategic, where she works with teams and boards to find common ground. She lives in Treaty 6, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

    Carissa Halton

  6. 12/04/2025

    Hollay Ghadery

    In this episode of Crow Reads I talk with multi-genre author,podcaster and publicist, Hollay Ghadery about her multifaceted career, the pace of publishing and being in the public eye, the complexities and significance of being a literary citizen and the thing she wants every emerging writer to know.  Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in Ontario onAnishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024 and was longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children’s book, Being with the Birds, withGuernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is a host on The New Books Network, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League’s BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com.

    Hollay Ghadery

  7. 10/21/2025

    Women Who Dig

    In this episode, I talk with Trina Moyles and Anna Kuelken about their experience writing and producing the film, Women Who Dig. Originally a book by Trina Moyles, the Women Who Dig film is produced by Anna Kuelken. We talk about creative collaboration, and what it meant to share the stories of women farmers, the weaving of multiple stories throughout the film and grandmother inspiration. Women Who Dig will be screened on October 23rd at the Metro Cinema in Edmonton, Alberta. Trina Moyles is an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books, including Women Who Dig, Lookout, and Black Bear, which will be published in January 2026. She grew up in the Peace Country of northern Alberta, though she currently lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, with her partner and their three dogs. Read more at: ⁠www.trinamoyles.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠@trinariannemoyles⁠ Anna Kuelken approaches documentary filmmaking through an ethnographic lens, investing time in cultivating relationships with her participants. She approaches storytelling not as an extractive process, but as one rooted in reciprocity, treating the story like an ecosystem that must be nurtured with care and respect.

    Women Who Dig

  8. 09/10/2025

    Dr. Lisa Martin

    After some time away to rethink, reinvigorate, and rebuild,Crow Reads is back with a new episode. This season I’m broadening our conversations into the literary world and interviewing, yes authors, as well as publishers, literary festival directors, editors, agents and more. For our firstinterview of the season, I’m delighted to interview the incomparable Dr. Lisa Martin, author and creative writing professor about developing a varied writing career, tension in story and character creation, sentence craft, and writingtraumatic grief. To close us off, Dr. Martin shares one favourite piece of writing advice.   Lisa Martin is the author of two full-length poetrycollections, One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008)and Believing is not the Same as Being Saved (University ofAlberta Press, 2017). Her work has been shortlisted for the City of Edmonton Book Prize and has won a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. A scholarly monograph, Creative Writing in Post-Secondary Education:Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, appeared with Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2025. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory. Her first novel, A Story Can Be Told About Pain, published by NeWest Press and recorded by HighBridge Audio, is available now as a print book, e-book, and audiobook ashas been a regular on the Alberta Bestseller list.

    Dr. Lisa Martin
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At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors from across Canada. Crow Reads is recorded on Treaty 6 territory the traditional home of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations people. Crow Reads focuses on providing a variety of perspectives and experiences across the literary landscape in Canada all with the eye to offering something new and interesting to our listeners as they think about developing literary careers.

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  • Creator
    Rayanne Haines
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Rayanne Haines
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    Crow Reads Podcast