Waubgeshig Rice

 ( 21st-century Canadian Journalists ) 

Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario. Rice has been recognized for his work throughout Canada, including an appearance at Wordfest's 2018 Indigenous Voices Showcase in Calgary.

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Career

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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. 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 before joining the CBC News'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. In 2014, he received the Debwewin Citation for Excellence in First Nations Storytelling from the Union of Ontario Indians. He became the new host of Up North, CBC Radio One's local afternoon show on CBCS-FM, in 2018, and has been on the national CBC Radio network as a guest host of Unreserved. He left the CBC in 2020 to concentrate on writing.

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Writing

Rice published the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge in 2011, as well as the novel Legacy in 2014, with Theytus Books. His second novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in October 2018 by ECW Press, and the audiobook was narrated byBilly Merasty and released in December 2018. The sequel, Moon of the Turning Leaves, was published in February 2024.

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."

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Podcast

In 2021 Rice launched the Storykeepers podcast with author Jennifer David, with assistance from an Ontario Arts Council grant. Rice and David discuss Indigenous literatures, "to bring conversations about Indigenous books to a wider audience in an audio book-club format." The podcast ran until 2023.

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Bibliography

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Novels

• Legacy. (2014). Theytus Books. .

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Moon

• Moon of the Crusted Snow. (2018). ECW Press. .
• Moon of the Turning Leaves. (2023). Random House Canada. .

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Collections

• Midnight Sweatlodge. (2011). Theytus Books. .

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Nonfiction

• Drum making: a guide for the Anishinaabe hand drum. Ed. Suzanne Methot. (2005). Ningwakwe Learning Press. .
• Laughter Is Good Medicine: Don Burnstick. (2009). Ningwakwe Learning Press. .

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Short stories

• "Limbs" in Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. Eds. Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (2023). Penguin Random House. .

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Other

• Brian D. McInnes . Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow. (2016). . Foreword by Waubgeshig Rice.
• Ed. Warren Cariou, Katherena Vermette, Niigaan James Sinclair. Impact: Colonialism in Canada. (2017). Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. . "Undercover" by Waubgeshig Rice.
• Le legs d'Eva: roman. Tr. Marie-Jo Gonny. (2017). Éditions David. . Translation of Legacy (2014).
• On Spirit Lake: Georgian Bay Stories. (2018). The Church Street Press. "Manido-gaming"by Waubgeshig Rice.
• Ed. Karen Schauber. The Group of Seven reimagined : contemporary stories inspired by historic Canadian paintings. (2019). . “The Stranger in the Cove” by Waubgeshig Rice.
• La cérémonie de guérison clandestine. Tr. Marie-Jo Gonny. (2019). Éditions David. . Translation of Midnight Sweatlodge (2011).
• Neige des lunes brisées. Tr. Yara El-Ghadban. (2022). Mémoires d'encrier. . Translation of Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018).

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Awards

• Independent Publisher Book Award for Midnight Sweatlodge, 2012.
• Northern Lit Award for Midnight Sweatlodge, 2012.
• Debwewin Citation for Excellence in First Nation Storytelling, 2004.

Categories: 21st-century Canadian Journalists, 21st-century Canadian Male Journalists, 21st-century Canadian Novelists, 21st-century Canadian Short Story Writers, 21st-century Canadian Male Writers, 21st-century First Nations Writers, Canadian Male Novelists, Canadian Male Short Story Writers, Canadian Radio Journalists, Canadian Television Reporters And Correspondents, Canadian Talk Radio Hosts, Canadian Speculative Fiction Writers, First Nations Novelists, First Nations Journalists, Ojibwe Male Writers, Ojibwe Writers, Wasauksing First Nation People, Writers From Greater Sudbury, Toronto Metropolitan University Alumni, Living People, Year Of Birth Missing, Canadian Podcasters, Journalists From Greater Sudbury, Novelists From Ontario, Writers From Parry Sound District, Journalists From Parry Sound District

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