Writers Read Their Early Sh*t
The podcast where authors and artists share the lopsided pleasures of their predeveloped, over-early, unripe work.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 66
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
S4/E9 - Ayelet Tsabari scribbles at the end of the world
Jason welcomes writer Ayelet Tsabari for a chinwag about needing the beach, apples revolving in space, the jaw-dropping beauty of Vancouver, surfing between languages, being out in real…
S4/E8 - Andrew Whiteman's glittering surface
Jason welcomes writer & rock star Andrew Whiteman (of Broken Social Scene, Apostle of Hustle, & Bourbon Tabernacle Choir fame) for a wide-ranging interface about giant Greek eyes, secre…
S4/E7 - Caroline Topperman's roots cast a shadow
Jason welcomes writer & traveler Caroline Topperman for a ramble-chat about Poland, Paris, having a lot of houses in your brain, the glory of Judy Blume, high school prose things full o…
S4/E6 - Kelly Watt: little stories & little wars
Jason welcomes pilgrim & author Kelly Watt for a ramble about the secret intelligence of chickens, the power of pilgrimage, fighting the enemy Rick, learning story arcs, Alice Munro, an…
S4/E5 - Lee Shedden will write foot powder jingles for money
Jason welcomes hunky singer-songwriter Lee Shedden for a vast ramble about getting drunk in Calgary, how books are bullshit, Martin Amis, listening to KISS on the Gravitron, the glory o…
S4/E4 - Jason Emde's massive slab of life
Jason welcomes himself for a reading of an Okanagan University College-era essay, circa 1994, on Lawrence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy.' Should he have been allowed to pass the course? Sh…
S4/E3 - Iain Maloney isn't the only gaijin on the podcast
All differences are sorted & congratulations exchanged as Jason is joined by author & rocker & colleague Iain Maloney for an interface about Iain's Scottish-themed KISS character, the g…
S4/E2 - Jacke Wilson and His Little Brain
Little Brain or Great Brain? Choose your own adventure! Jason welcomes writer & host of The History of Literature podcast Jacke Wilson for a jaw about getting addicted to travel, the gl…
S4/E1 - Tonight will be fine with Susan Wadds
Welcome to WRTES Season 4, in all the alleys & under all the streetlamps, & join Jason and author Susan Wadds for a salubrious & contagious confab about sacred images, why we read, Yugo…
S3/E15 - A one-way ticket to Saturn with DJ Max in Tokyo
Jason welcomes back DJ Max in Tokyo for the spectacular Season Three finale: negative influences, funky but not too funky drumbeats, Gifu vs Tokyo, Max's lurid romantic past, and what m…
S3/E14 - Jason & Tom are literary sex-beasts
The tables are comprehensively turned as Jason reads some of his early, Lawrence Durrell-infused early prose to Tom. Will Tom denounce it for the pretentious bunk it is, or will he tend…
S3/E13 - Meghan Lamb: drawings of dead girls
Jason welcomes writer & Kill Scenes front-woman Meghan Lamb for a gabfest about love smacks & hate smacks, posthumous dead girls, being stuck inside cows, suggestions of obsession, chea…
S3/E12 - Talkin' Worldwide Bob Dylan Blues with Matthew Ingate
Something's burning, baby! Jason (who's been in trouble ever since he set his suitcase down) welcomes author Matthew Ingate (who's no pig without a wig) for a natter about Dylan's best …
S3/E11 - Patrick Grace wants to know what you're afraid of
Jason welcomes writer Patrick Grace for a chinwag about his debut collection 'Deviant,' the pitfalls of confessional poetry, listening to your house, anxiety dreams, the local high scho…
S3/E10 - Hannah Calder: foreskins & bladders
Jason welcomes writer Hannah Calder for an interface about chickens giving you the finger, how great Charles Dickens is, exploding kneecaps, riding horses naked down the beach, crazy pa…
S3/E9 - Busting tropes with Wayne Ng
Jason welcomes novelist Wayne Ng for a rattle about being named Wayne or Jason, starting late, whether or not scribbling is writing, the realities of self-promotion, the ballsiness of w…
S3/E8 - Tonya Lailey: the trick is fun
Jason welcomes beautifully laconic poet Tonya Lailey for an interface about wine agencies, comfort books, thin places, what's fab about Nova Scotia, Calgary's supportive writing scene, …
S3/E7 - Rob Harvilla doesn't give a hoot
CALM DOWN. Jason welcomes podcaster and author of '60 Songs That Explain the '90s' Rob Harvilla for a confabulation about furious moping, tongue exercises, the glory of New Kids on the …
S3/E6 - Blackening pages with Jason Heroux
Jason welcomes Jason for a jaw about Thousand Island pirates, comfort reading, defacing books, fireworks for Hitler, getting your ego out of the way of the writing, & a naked onion in t…
S3/E5 - Fiona Lam's acid grammar
Jason welcomes Vancouver's Poet Laureate for a ramble about Emily of New Moon, writing into fear & anxiety, concrete corpses in the living room, goth trenchcoats, werewolves draped in m…