Waubgeshig Rice Explained

Waubgeshig Rice
Birth Place:Wasauksing First Nation
Occupation:writer, journalist
Education:Ryerson University
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Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario.[1] Rice has been recognized for his work throughout Canada, including an appearance at Wordfest's 2018 Indigenous Voices Showcase in Calgary.[2]

Career

Journalism

Waubgeshig Rice began his journalism career when he spent a year in Germany on a student exchange program, and wrote a series of articles about his experience for the First Nations newspaper Anishinabek News.[3] He graduated from Ryerson University in 2002, and began working as a freelance journalist for media outlets such as The Weather Network and Wasauksing's community radio station CHRZ-FM[4] before joining the CBC's local news bureau in Winnipeg in 2006 and transferring to Ottawa in 2010.

With the CBC, he was a contributor to the radio and television documentary series ReVision Quest and 8th Fire.[5] In 2014, he received the Debwewin Citation for Excellence in First Nations Storytelling from the Union of Ontario Indians.[6] He became the new host of Up North, CBC Radio One's local afternoon show on CBC Sudbury, in 2018, and has been heard on the national CBC Radio network as a guest host of Unreserved. He left the CBC in 2020 to concentrate on writing.[7]

Writing

Rice published the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge in 2011,[8] as well as the novel Legacy in 2014, with Theytus Books, Ltd. His second novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in October 2018 by ECW Press,[9] and the audiobook was narrated by actor Billy Merasty and released in December 2018.

The New York Times named Rice, alongside Cherie Dimaline, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger and Stephen Graham Jones, as "some of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy."[10]

Podcast

In 2021 Rice launched the Storykeepers podcast with author Jennifer David, with assistance from an Ontario Arts Council grant.[11] In the podcast Rice and David will be discussing Indigenous literatures, "to bring conversations about Indigenous books to a wider audience in an audio book-club format."[12]

Bibliography

Books

Short stories

Chapters, forewords, and translations

Awards

Notes and References

  1. https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/waubgeshig-rice-hastotell-real-aboriginal-stories "Waubgeshig Rice has to tell real aboriginal stories"
  2. Web site: Waubgeshig Rice. Wordfest.
  3. "Leaving a Legacy: Waubgeshig Rice's storytelling might take on many forms, but its principal purpose is to make an audience 'care'". Sault Star, September 6, 2014.
  4. "Radio becomes reality for Rez residents". North Bay Nugget, August 10, 2002.
  5. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/up-north-new-host-waub-rice-1.4692473 "Waubgeshig Rice new host of CBC's Up North"
  6. "Waub Rice to receive storytelling honour". Canada NewsWire, July 15, 2014.
  7. Dennis Ward, "Anishinaabe writer Waubgeshig Rice hopes popular novel will be adapted for the screen". APTN News, May 26, 2020.
  8. "Fingers on the pulse: Director of writers festival says contemporary authors provide a peek at the coming zeitgeist". Winnipeg Free Press, September 15, 201,
  9. https://quillandquire.com/authors/in-waubgeshig-rices-novel-the-fall-of-civilization-marks-a-new-dawn-for-an-indigenous-community/ "In Waubgeshig Rice’s novel, the fall of civilization marks a new dawn for an Indigenous community"
  10. News: 'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi. The New York Times. Alexandra Alter. 2020-08-14. C1. 2020-08-19.
  11. Web site: 2021-03-04. Waubgeshig Rice, Jennifer David's new podcast Storykeepers is an audio book club on Indigenous lit. 2021-03-10. Quill and Quire. en.
  12. Web site: 2021-03-04. Waubgeshig Rice, Jennifer David's new podcast Storykeepers is an audio book club on Indigenous lit. 2021-03-10. Quill and Quire. en.
  13. Web site: Moon of the Turning Leaves . Random House.
  14. Web site: Never Whistle at Night: 9780593468463 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-01-10 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  15. Web site: Theytus Books. www.theytus.com. 2019-10-05.
  16. Web site: Northern Lit Award Winners. 2018.
  17. Web site: CBC . CBC's Waubgeshig Rice to receive First Nations Storytelling award. CBC Sudbury. July 18, 2014. December 22, 2019.

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