• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 2010 December 1
• Jennifer Kingsley
• Updates

Check out some of my past work in this entry.

• 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.