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Ep. 5 - Adrian Michael Kelly
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Today Aara chats with Adrian Michael Kelly, author and writing coach, about growing up in northern Ontario, class, identity, the power and meaning of failure, his upcoming memoir, and more.
Show Notes
- How small communities and the working class informed Adrian's writing
- The importance of class in our society
- How Adrian learned to write authentically by embracing the reality of his own perceptions
- Can we imagine ourselves "into the cells of other people"?
- Is writing an escape from personality or identity?
- The involuntary urge to write, and how one can still block it
- How to deal with writer's block and failure
- Adrian's upcoming memoir
- How can a writing life involve meaningful community, self-care, mature commitment to spirituality?
Book and Author References
Episode 4 of the KWF Podcast featuring Jessica Johns Down Sterling Road by Adrian Michael Kelly The Ambassador of What: Stories by Adrian Michael Kelly TS Eliot, 20th century American writer Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
About Adrian Michael Kelly
Adrian Michael Kelly is a writer of short fiction, fiction, and essayist as well as a writing coach. He is the author of the novel Down Sterling Road. His short fiction has appeared in three compilations of Best Canadian Stories and in the Journey Prize Anthology, and his essays and journalism have appeared in The Globe & Mail, the Calgary Herald, CNQ: Canadian Notes and Queries, and other periodicals. He holds a doctorate in English (with a creative writing focus) and has taught writing and literature to students and professionals worldwide.
Adrian’s most recent work is his debut short fiction collection The Ambassador of What, a series of linked stories about fathers, sons, and the complicated reality that is family. A Canadian Notes & Queries review calls “the way Kelly wields (and welds together) words is astounding . . . When your brain finally clicks into Kelly’s rhythm, Ambassador accomplishes something rare: it feels fresh, a brand-new mode of storytelling; it rearticulates your way of seeing the world, reprograms your brain, gets your feet tapping to a different beat. And this is what makes it a book worth slowing down for.”
Adrian was born in Timmins, grew up in Campbellford, and currently lives in Kingston.
Show Transcript
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