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Ep. 4 - Jessica Johns
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Today Tricia chats with author Jessica Johns about identifying with one's own characters, representing the incredible diversity of Indigenous peoples, the responsibility of a writer and a reader, and so much more.
Show Notes
- How does Jessica's writing come out?
- What does it mean to sustain writing with work in other areas?
- How do we define an individual's responsibility, accepting that we are never truly alone?
- How is failure not about rejection?
- Why is receiving help and love hard for so many people?
- What is "auntieship", and how can it sometimes for a verb?
- Why are animals actual characters, not just mood-setters?
Book and Author References
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Bad Cree by Jessica Johns The Trickster Trilogy by Eden Robinson
About Jessica Johns
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year award.
Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has been published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Glass Buffalo, CV2, SAD Magazine, Red Rising Magazine, Poetry is Dead, Bad Nudes, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Brick, Reissue, Maisonneuve, The Globe and Mail, Best Canadian Essays 2019, among others. She has spoken at various literary and arts festivals such as The Bay Area Book Festival, WORD Vancouver, Vancouver Writers Fest, FOLD Festival, Victoria Festival of Authors, London’s Literary and Creative Arts Festival, and Blue Metropolis.
Her visual art has been featured at the 2022 Rhubarb Festival, grunt gallery, and at Latitude 53. She serves on the editorial board for GUTS – An Anti-Colonial Feminist Magazine, the advisory board for the Indigenous Brilliance reading series, and also brews kombucha as the founder of kokôm kombucha.
Show Transcript
A complete transcript of this episode will be available soon.
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