Craft, Perseverance, and In the Bear’s House, with Bruce Hunter

The Resilient Writers Radio Show · Oct 16, 2025 · 26m

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If you’ve ever wondered how your personal history and lived experiences might shape the stories you write, this conversation with novelist and poet Bruce Hunter will move and inspire you.

Bruce joins Rhonda to talk about the re-release of his award-winning novel In the Bear’s House (Frontenac House, 2024)—a powerful story set in 1950s and ’60s Alberta about a young mother raising her deaf son, told through two unforgettable points of view.

Born in Calgary on Treaty Seven lands, Bruce was deafened as an infant and has lived with low…