Writers Radio

Karin Konstantynowicz:

Roots Borders and Belonging

June Blue Spruce:

Warning: Whiteness May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Host, Carole Harmon, Music and audio production, Gary Sill

Karin Konstantynowicz and…

Petra

Shaena Lambert is interviewed by Ingrid Rose.

Petra is a novel, but not a biography of Petra Kelly. Yet, in its pages, fictional and real characters are inspired by and closely follow the lives a…

Lisa Iversen with host Ingrid Rose

Using the lens of inherited trauma and family history, Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor offers a hopeful, humanizing path for dismantling whiteness. 

For over two decades…

Finding Gold in New York

In this interview with Ingrid Rose, Rosanna Hille  discusses writing Finding Gold in New York. The excerpts are read by Danish Canadian poet,  Christina Marie Moth.

After raisi…

The Absent Prince

Una Suselli O’Connell: reads  excerpts from her memoir.

Una's family memoir is based on journals and correspondence of several generations of her family. Primarily set in the twentiet…

Transpoetic Imaginings

The poetry and spoken word improvisation, of Liam ‘Captain’ Snowden and Julian Gunn.

Guest host and interviewer: Medwyn McConachy

For Transpoetic Imaginings, guest host Medwyn McC…

Mothering In This Time

Barbara Baydala reads three of her poems: She Emerges, Woman With Kind Eyes Says Stay Home, Round the Block

Zoe Dagneault reads  from her short story,  In Her Shoes

Host, Carole …

Mushrooms and Memory

Monica Meneghetti reads from her memoir, What The Mouth Wants: A Memoir Of Food, Love And Belonging.

Interview by Ingrid Rose

"My Mom beamed herself to me", Monica writes in Mushroo…

Cathie Borrie reads re-imagined fairytales from The Brothers Grimm (poetry)

Interview by Ingrid Rose

Host Carole Harmon

Cathie Borrie’s re-working of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales surprise with unexpec…

Julian Shilcock: Lest it Should Fall (poetry) and  The Past Has Long Fingers (fiction)

Hannah Phillips: Object-Obsess-Compulse (lyric prose) and Rebellion in the Night (poetry)

Host, Carole Harmon

There…

Jacinda, ‘Jake’ Oldale: A New Energy (poem) and Beneath the Surface (song)

Susan Dambroff and Chris Kammler: Afternoon (improv performance piece)

Sarah Knoebber: We Are Not in Danger & Rap Nap (poetry)

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Kathryn Alexander: On Being More Than One and Less Than One, and The Wave (poetry)

Ingrid Rose: The Walk (memoir)

Host, Carole Harmon

This episode features two writers with twin brothers. Each explores …

Medwyn McConachy: Layering (poetry)

Clarissa Green: In Search of My Elderly Young Girl  (memoir)

Interview by Ingrid Rose

Host, Carole Harmon

This is a program which honours lost friends. Medwyn's poem w…

Barbara Baydala: All on This Depends (poetry)

Carole Harmon: Yarrow’s Offering (poetry)

Carole Harmon’s long poem, Yarrow’s Offering is read by actors from across Canada: Nancy Beatty, Barbara Parker, …