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Mixed Tape: Rea Tarvydas’s How To Pick Up A Maid In Statue Square

by PDR-Kellie | Sep 29, 2016 | Alberta, Books, Fiction, Guest Posts, Mixed Tape, Music, Process, Reading, Recommended, Writers, Writing Life

This week, writer Rea Tarvydas shares the songs that power her brand new short story collection. Read and give a listen!  Music is a big deal for me as a writer. I use it in different ways. Sometimes it’s to condition me into a piece of writing and, in that instance,...

Mixed Tape & CanLit Collections: Christy Ann Conlin’s The Memento

by PDR-Kellie | Apr 28, 2016 | Books, CanLit Collections, Creativity, Guest Posts, Mixed Tape, Nova Scotia, Process, Recommended, Writers, Writing Life

Christy Ann Conlin’s brand new book The Memento “wields a strange power and force, both psychological and emotional” writes Robert Wiersema in The Toronto Star. Here, she shares the music and artifacts that helped breathed life into this...

Mixed Tape: Stephanie Domet’s Fallsy Downsies

by PDR-Kellie | Apr 7, 2016 | Fiction, Guest Posts, Mixed Tape, Music, Nova Scotia, Process, Writers, Writing Life

Halifax writer Stephanie Domet shares her roots-flavoured song-list from her novel Fallsy Downsies. Read and listen!  Fallsy Downsies was born in an old bank vault turned secret after-hours drinking room below a pub that no longer exists, in a small town in rural Nova...

Mixed Tape: Ian Williams’s Personals

by PDR-Kellie | Feb 25, 2016 | Guest Posts, Mixed Tape, Music, Poetry, Process, Writers, Writing Life

Today, Ian Williams gives us his collection of songs that helped him write his Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted collection, Personals. Rock on.    I was living in the States while writing Personals, thinking about Canada, thinking about distances. If this playlist is...

Mixed Tape: Erna Buffie’s Let Us Be True

by PDR-Kellie | Jan 21, 2016 | Contemplations, Creativity, Manitoba, Mixed Tape, Music, Process, Writers

Today, Winnipeg-based writer and film-maker Erna Buffie launches my new series, Mixed Tape (read about it and its sister project, CanLit Collections) with a meditation on the role music played in her debut novel Let Us Be True, and a song-list. Says Erna: The...

A Mixed Tape for Swarm

by PDR-Kellie | Apr 24, 2014 | Canada Reads, Just For Fun, Mixed Tape, Music, Swarm, Writing Life

Despite the fact that my mother studied to be an opera singer in the 1960s, I’m not a very musical person. I mean, I make up silly songs about everything, especially our growing collection of animals, but I don’t listen to a lot of music. I write in...

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