Writers Radio

American Bloodlines, Reckoning with Lynch Culture combines memoir with reportage and cultural criticism to interrogate and complicate the traditional narrative about how lynch culture is created in f…

Penny Allport is a poet, wordsmith, painter, teacher and mentor living in Victoria, Canada. As a life-cycle celebrant, she co-creates ceremonies and rituals with individuals, couples and groups, to w…

I have made of myself into a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead.
from Encrypted by Arleen Paré

Prolific, award-winning Canadian poet Arleen Paré joins I…

POEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale

There is a connection between the work of Canadian poets Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale. Both women have been writing poetry for most of their lives, using …

Women Who Write is the title chosen by a group of eight women for their writing group, which formed after they met in a Simon Fraser University continuing studies creative writing class in Vancouver,…

DEATH OF PERSEPHONE: A MURDER

An award-winning Canadian poet reimagines the Greek myth of Persephone in her 2024 release from Caitlin Press.

“Hardboiled detective tropes meet classical myths and free-f…

Feet of Clay, the title of Graem Castell's epic memoir, refers to the awful behaviors of mankind. This highly enjoyable book [the book, not the title] is filled with pointers to more enlightened livi…

Postcards from Katherine is a series of short personal essays that Katherine Govier publishes for free on her website, katherinegovier.com. In this program, she muses on the series and reads from sev…

Angela J. Grey

Angela writes about race, equity, and the impact of colonization on all peoples in Canada. She offers a unique perspective on children of the African/Caribbean diaspora who are adopted …

Readings in Three Voices by Medwyn McConachy

"to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race."

Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 196…

Ethel Whitty says, "I write about extraordinary, ordinary women searching for their own truths."  

Ethel Whitty was born and raised on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. …

Barbara Baydala from Ladner, BC, writes A Family of Poems

I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio t…

Twice a year, we have a themed call for submissions from our pool of writers. I didn’t know what to expect when I asked for Good Bedtime Stories. Serendipity was at work.

Jeremy Page and Alison Goelle…

The loneliness of narrative, the loneliness of seeking truth, is our human condition. It is our task as writers. Betsy Warland

Betsy’s popular inquiry into the act of writing, Breathing the Page, Read…

Re-imagining a classic fairy tale with puppeteer, puppet builder, performer, director and filmmaker Kris Fleerackers.

Bored and tired of doing chores, little Lotte Grimm sneaks a peek at a ‘broken’ fa…

Radical Acts of Love
How We Find Hope at the End of Life

Janie Brown has been an oncology nurse, first in Glasgow, then Vancouver for four decades.

She  is the founder of the Callanish Society which, th…

meditations on art, myth, archaeology, ceremony, and death

Come, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore, / its language of high tide rich and close, / close and hard to see.
In her co…

Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community.

Each program in th…

Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community.
This will be a two…

Consider the World Tree

her mantling green
our swaddling gown dismantled
an iron word falling
 felling, disrupting
old growth's primal ground...

Susan McCaslin

Canadian poet and literary scholar Susan McCas…