Journal & stories

Cottage Life: DIY Maple Syrup
- 2012 March 30
- Pink Sheep Media
- Writing Samples
I thought that making my own maple syrup would be easy and romantic. I would tap that gorgeous old maple and boil it down. How hard could it be? Read about the mess I made and the results in this issue of Cottage Life magazine.

In Town and Out: CBC Radio One
- 2012 March 17
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
March 17, 2012: A tape talk with CBC’s Michael Bhardwaj about Almonte’s historic clock tower. Ron Caron has been looking after...

Living Out Loud: CBC Radio One
- 2011 December 2
- Pink Sheep Media
- Updates
December 2, 2011: Producer Steve Wadhams created this re-vision of my New Tribe documentary. His radio magic with my tape and...

In the Field: CBC Radio One
- 2011 November 8
- Pink Sheep Media
- Updates
November 8, 2011: New Tribe was rebroadcast on this program which “celebrates the art of the radio documentary.” Visit the documentary’s...

CBC The Sunday Edition: New Tribe
- 2011 October 10
- Pink Sheep Media
- Radio programming
Find out what happens when you take a land-based course about indigenous governance and decolonization and add the Royal Family's newest celebrities, Will and Kate. This radio documentary takes listeners to Dechinta Bush University on Dene Land in the Northwest Territories. The main character, Erin Freeland Ballantyne is the visionary behind this project, and she works closely with young leader Kyla Kakfwi Scott.

up here: What I Learned at Bush U
- 2011 September 1
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Writing Samples
Teaching looks a lot like learning at Dechinta Bush University. This isn’t any old campus. The school is located at Blachford Lake Lodge, 25 minutes east of Yellowknife by float plane on the traditional territory of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation.

Lake Journal: Back and Beyond
- 2011 July 8
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Writing Samples
Five friends and I completed a 54-day canoe expedition on Nunavut's Back River in the summer of 2005. I was ready to be tested, but I never imagined the combination of grief, beauty and disaster that would push me to the limit and leave me with a new understanding of the wild. I wrote this essay at the Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program in 2005.

Arcticamag.ca
- 2010 December 8
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
June 2010: Excavation Digging down through layers of northern experience. And going back in time. This essay pulls apart the strata...
Other project samples
- 2010 December 1
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Check out some of my past work in this entry.

Writer, broadcaster, wilderness guide, naturalist
- 2010 November 30
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I am a writer, a broadcaster, a wilderness guide and a naturalist. My passions include communications, wild places and radio journalism. On this site, you will find a bio, a portfolio and a way to get in touch with me. I hope you will.