Writers Radio
Writers Radio Podcasts...…discuss and present recent work being created by talented people, special events and all things writerly; an audio space where the inner world meets the outer. Writers Radio producers capture guest writers, interview authors and present them reading their work. A podcast episode is available after being broadcast. Episodes broadcast on Writers Radio at the beginning of each hour and continue for two weeks. Then that is replaced with a new one and the previous episode appears in the Podcasts Library. A new program starts every second Monday. Writers Radio is a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 114
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
P088 The Child I Was, The Adult I Became
Listen to this lively event recorded May 4 at our studio in Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast in Canada.
Canadian authors Caitlin Hicks and Liz Long joined moderator Gord Halloran, pianist Gary Sill…
P087 Atma Frans - A Belgian Childhood: Poems
Atma Frans lives in Gibsons, on ancestral Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory that is part of Canada’s Sunshine Coast.
She grew up in Flanders, a region of Belgium which was continuously invaded and occupied since…
P086 Instead
The adventures that we wanted to have, the adventures that we did have kayaking for months on end in very remote parts of the world where there were tropical diseases, hippos, crocodiles, big seas, b…
P085 Other Voices
Alison Goeller is a former professor of American literature who taught in Philadelphia and at the University of Maryland overseas. She lives in Uzès, a medieval town in Provence.
Ingrid Rose discusses…
P084 Beloved Water Body
The life of Great Salt Lake is inseparable from our own.
We gather to bear witness to her beauty. We gather to grieve. We gather to create beacons of possibility. We gather to increase our tenderness…
P083 We Follow The River
"I walk along a corridor in the Museum of memory"
writes Onjana Yawnghwe.
Onjana Yawnghwe's grandfather was the last ruling head of Shan State in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. He was the first pre…
P082 I Am Not the Darkness
At this stage of my journey, I've returned to my ten year old self when poetry was as natural as a fresh stream.
- Yehudit Silverman
Whether writing of the war in Israel / Gaza, deaths of loved ones, …
To Push the Limits of Identity
Pervin Saket is the pen name of a multi-genre poet, novelist, playwright, children's author and essayist who lives in Mumbai, India. She writes of identity and the purpose of language influenced by h…
P080 Tender - a poetics of Ekphrasis
My body on a bus stop bench is a place of high drama, writes poet Alison Braid-Fernandez in her poem, Blue Dot, which is included in the Montreal Poetry Prize 2022 Anthology.
Alison Braid-Fernandez i…
P079 Two Journeys to Self Publishing
The world is made up of stories, many of which remain untold. History told from the point of view of grand achievements, harrowing deeds, or significant events omits the effects of history on persona…
P078 Murder, Art, Love
Kat, the protagonist in Jane Callen’s novel, Bernini’s Elephant, leads the reader on a dark adventure of transformation. This tale of murder and redemption is set within contrasting environments in …
P077 Salawu Ọlájídé | Loss is a Thing of Hope
GOODBYE TO LAMPEDUSA
It is what they say
because the sea does not have footprints
to see where others have ended their journeys,
and today—this incandescent afternoon—
they tell you to follow
the path of t…
P076 Priscilla Long | Holy Magic
Epigraph to Holy Magic
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with Holy Magic
Hey-di-ho
Wallace Stevens
Each chapter of Holy Magic has a colour palette. Each poem reflects a vibration …
P075 The Passion of a Poet
Title: The Passion of a Poet
Episode: P075
START: January 01, 2024
ENDS: January 14, 2024
Length: 33' mins
Host/Producer: Ingrid Rose
Poetry is the hinge between the artist, having that moment, and the re…
P074 Season Special: Belight
Elizabeth Cunningham
Jacinda Oldale
Kate Bird
Kathryn Alexander
Katherine Govier
Mara Alper and Elliott Levine
Sheila Martineau
It’s that time of year again, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, when…
P073 Navigating Shitstorms
In Navigating Shitstorms Liz Long turns her childhood trauma into a road trip. Travel with her to Victimtown. Listen to your Heart Voice and take the road to Freedomville.
When Liz Long was six, Lynda…
P072 Making Is Finding
Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City when one morning she abruptly loses all strength in her legs.
She phones a …
P071 Humpty Dumpty After The Fall
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
This Emily Dickinson quote greets you when you visit Seema Shah's website. I met Seema, a Vancouver writer and collage artist, in May 2023 at the e…
P070 A Women's Guide to Search and TRescue
I write about women heroes. Not obvious ones and not immediate ones, but women who are searching for freedom and worth in their lives despite complicated, risky circumstances.
Mary Carroll Moore
A forc…
P068 Inside/Outside, Language Distrubed
In 2012, poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner precipitously lost feeling in, and use of, her left side. The mini-stroke passed quickly but was symptomatic of something larger: a tear in the lining of an artery…