ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Jess Johns, Executive Director of Growing Room Festival 2020, talks about the origins of the festival and it's current iteration.
ABOUT JESS JOHNS
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory of Northern Alberta. She is the managing editor of Room magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series, a collaborative series between Room and Massy Books celebrating Indigenous women/2SQ storytellers. She has been published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Glass Buffalo, CV2, SAD Magazine, Red Rising Magazine, The Rusty Toque, Poetry is Dead, and Bad Nudes, among others. Her short story, “The Bull of the Cromdale” was nominated for a 2019 National Magazine Award in fiction and her debut poetry chapbook, How Not to Spill, is out now with Rahila’s Ghost Press.
ABOUT SEAN CRANBURY
Sean is the Executive Director of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. A life long independent bookseller, Sean is also the Founder and co-host of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series, an independent reading series that began in 2010. Sean was also creator and host of Book on the Radio, an early literary radio show and podcast that ran from 2009 to 2015. You can find out more at seancranbury.com.
ABOUT THE PODCAST
Community Voices is a segment of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Podcast that features interviews and discussion with people who are members of the writing and publishing community in BC and Yukon. It is hosted by Sean Cranbury and it compliments the segment called Writing the Coast which is hosted and produced by Megan Cole. For more information please check out bcyukonbookprizes.com.
