277th Edition
February 2021
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Celista Wordsmith Featured on Local Radio experience many page-turning adventures By Larissa Lutjen on a mission to find Magda’s twin sister. Local author Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski is branching out on a new proj- CKVS can be picked up at 93.7 FM ect in association with CKVS, The Voice on radios in the North Shuswap but the of the Shuswap community radio station, programming is also available on-line through voiceoftheshuswap.ca. Because which broadcasts out of Salmon Arm. of the on-line broadcast Kawatski has Beginning in January she began reheard from friends cording readings from living as far away her novel, Magda’s as Gabriola Island, Odyssey, for the proStewart, Washington gram “Wordsmiths of State and Nova Scotia the Shuswap”. So far, who tuned in to she has recorded four catch her first chapchapters with tentative plans to read the entire ters. “Wordsmiths book by the end of the of the Shuswap” project. airs at 7:00pm on “Wordsmiths of the Mondays, 1:00pm on Shuswap” is a radio Wednesdays and at program that highlights 3:00pm on Saturdays, the writing of local auboth over the airwaves or on-line. thors with the intention Kawatski reports of making the works that there was a bit accessible to seniors, of a learning curve but the half hour proinvolved in figuring gram is ‘suitable for ears Local author Deanna Barnhardt out how to silence the of all ages’. Kawatski Kawatski highlighted on 93.7 FM sound of turning pages, explained that she wanted and how to make to contribute a chance to escape Covid worries and days stuck recording corrections, but she hopes the format could introduce new readers, at home with an opportunity to escape or listeners, to her work. Radio broadto another place through her story and readings. Magda’s Odyssey follows a casts and audiobooks are an important rebellious girl and her dog on a journey format for making books accessible across a Canadian wilderness where they to people with visual impairment. She encounter various friends and foes and (continued on page 3)
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