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
S3/E4 - Extending the line with Steven Lattey
Jason welcomes author Steven Lattey for a yackety-yak about Dylan & Ginsberg, reading with patience & gratitude, hitchhiking, convenient access to suffering & struggle, glories never ce…
S3/E3 - Licorice variations and mac & cheese masks with Corinna Chong
Jason welcomes Corinna Chong for a confab about when we stop regretting the people—& the writers—we used to be, plugging gaps with memories, plagiarizing ABBA, the power of end stops, t…
S3/E2 - Love & despair & barbaric beauty with Daniel Powter
Jason welcomes songwriter & musician Daniel Powter for a chinwag about the mysteries of remote Vernon, British Columbia, skipping class to play piano, how Jason didn't launch Daniel's m…
S3/E1 - After That: Lorna Crozier
Jason welcomes Lorna Crozier for a gab & a yak about stone angels, that shivery sense good writing gives you, being corny & earnest, unwrapping your brain, just what it is about cats an…
S2/E16 - Clash of the Tender Cringe Titans
We're not sinking—we're crashing! Jason welcomes the titans of Season One back for a clash of cringe that runs the gamut from brambles & hassles to madness levels to walls dripping tear…
S2/E15 - Kaho Shibuya: Obliteration
Jason welcomes Japanese media personality Kaho Shibuya for a prismatic chat about reading novels to understand Japan, teachers turning into deer, an unusual use for Minute Maid Morning …
S2/E14 - Nathan Whitlock likes SOME free jazz
Jason welcomes novelist Nathan Whitock for a waffle about Pulsar & the Six Million Dollar Man, the problem with free jazz, not being attracted to the perverse & underground, candied bil…
S2/E13 - Michael Whone & little bit die
Jason welcomes writer, musician, and publisher Michael Whone for an interface about the joys of the mundane, still hating Dostoevsky, last books, shoplifting Kerouac, and Jason's upcomi…
S2/E12 - Kelly S. Thompson: basic training of the mind
Jason welcomes memoirist Kelly S. Thompson for a free-ranging ramble about mentoring & being mentored, shitty first drafts, lingering in the ugly, basic training of the mind, misanthrop…
S2/E11 - US National Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead is not bowing down
Jason welcomes US National Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead for a freewheeling ramble about being blessed with mentors, hearing everybody's story, post office death messages, visiting H…
S2/E10 - John Lent & Jude Clarke: necessary angels of reality
Writers Read Their Early Shit enjoys its first threesome as Jason welcomes national treasures John Lent and Jude Clarke for a wide-ranging confabulation about pirate adventures, clammy …
S2/E9 - Dale Lee Kwong: Ai yah! Take that, cool kids!
Jason welcomes Chinese-Canadian poet, playwright, & essayist Dale Lee Kwong for a gas about lesbian tours of China, insulting punctuation, Tom Wayman, tech-nostalgia, being glad to have…
S2/E8 - Roger Watts is wondering how you put this thing on
Holy doodle! Jason welcomes one of his oldest & longest-suffering pals for a nostalgia-soaked ramble about high school airbands, role-playing games, pretty good nosebleeds, trying to be…
S2/E7 - Susan Musgrave doesn't look like her poetry (Part 2)
"Our mistakes make the best stories, and that's why we should not think of them as failures." In the second of their already legendary chats, Jason & Susan discuss Egyptian typewriters …
S2/E6 - Susan Musgrave doesn't look like her poetry (Part 1)
Jason welcomes legendary Canadian poet Susan Musgrave and the two get to gabbing—about Leonard Cohen, the House of Carnage, ghosts, grief, stones, Sharon Olds, pre-traumatic stress diso…
S2/E5 - Dave Olson (aka Uncle Weed): priorities & bad decisions
Jason welcomes under-qualified window-washer Dave Olson & his fantastic beard & beautiful hands for a natter about punching or hugging Dostoevsky, see-through loincloths, meeting REM, b…
S2/E4 - Amanda Tiffin is shooting rubberbands at the stars
Jason welcomes scarily talented singer-songwriter Amanda Tiffin for a nostalgic chinwag about Amanda's musical origin story, Zimbabwean adventures, Edie Brickell phases, discovering the…
S2/E3 - Matt Porter: He's wild! He's hot!
Jason welcomes KISS ROOM legend Matt Porter for a bombastic, fire & thunder chinwag about Mr. Mutant, learning to do things by making a fool of yourself, escaping from the apes, Duran D…
S2/E2 - Bronwen Tate's tender cringe
Jason welcomes UBC Creative Writing prof & author of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize-winning poetry collection 'The Silk the Moths Ignore' Bronwen Tate for a barely-rescued-from-oblivion co…
S2/E1 - Rob Kelly: A Study in Duality
Welcome to WRTES Season Two (& it’s a big one). Excitingly expanding the format, Jason welcomes master podcaster and philosopher-pirate Rob Kelly for a freewheeling, ninety-miles-an-hou…