Archive: Writers Radio on Dressed for Dancing

Recovered public archive note. Writers Radio featured Leslie Hill and Dressed for Dancing in Episode P092, hosted and produced by Ingrid Rose. The episode was listed for September 9 to September 22, 2024, with a running time of 31 minutes.

The episode page describes Dressed for Dancing as Leslie's memoir of grief, spiritual inquiry, and her years at the Findhorn Foundation in northern Scotland. It quotes from Leslie's essay Grief and frames the book as a story of moving from denial and loss toward acceptance, understanding, and maturity.

The same archive notes that David Spangler, former Associate Director of the Findhorn community, called Dressed for Dancing "hands down the best book I've read in years about the modern Findhorn Foundation community" and described it as gracefully written, novel-like in momentum, and rooted in the depth of a true spiritual journey.

Public biographical notes from the episode say Leslie Hill's essays have appeared in Pilgrimage, Shark Reef, What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming A Teacher, Tahoma Literary Review, Braided Way, and The Globe and Mail. The page also notes that Dressed for Dancing was self-published in 2012 and was one of ten nominees for the Whistler Independent Book Awards that year.

A bookseller listing for a signed first edition identifies the publisher as Incite Press, Vancouver, BC, 2012, ISBN 9780986612756, and describes the book as a moving memoir of transformation from skepticism to spirituality and from grief to joyful living.

Sources:
https://writersradio.ca/podcast-directory/podcasts-2024/P092-leslie-hill/
https://gillmore.ca/products/2104