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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.
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The Last Wilderness
Jan 1900:31:03Tap to summarizeP122 The Last Wilderness: Carole Harmon“ I’m working in that part of Canada which stands on end.”Byron HarmonWhat is wild? This question underlies Carole Harmon’s inquiry into the role her family played in the colonial history of western North America, specifically the Pacific Northwest in the USA and the Canadian Rockies. The Last Wilderness centres on her paternal grandfather, Byron Harmon, who photographed and filmed the Canadian Rockies and adjoining mountain ranges between 1906 and 1934. It delves into family history and introduces some of the remarkable characters with whom he shared a life in this mountain wilderness.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
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Dec 2900:44:25Tap to summarizeA Memoir Through Essays and Other StoriesIngrid RoseThe body is Ingrid Rose's touchstone as she explores her life through stories and personal essays:• Her relationship with her twin brother, Tim• Her New York adventures as a young woman, waitressing in a jazz club and performing with Warm Rain, a spoken word and music ensemble • Her spiritual and intellectual transformation from a young communist to a spiritual seeker• Discovering her body as a source and interpreter of consciousness.From her childhood in London, England, to living in intentional communities in the Cotswolds and France, Ingrid arrived in Vancouver, Canada, in 1996. She is a storyteller, writing mentor, and author who explores body/mind/spirit.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P120 They Lived Ever After
Nov 2400:38:57Tap to summarizeThey Lived Ever AfterStories and true accounts about the resilience of the human spirit, the importance of fairy tales, and creativity as a wellspring in troubling times.Una Suseli O'Connell: They Lived Ever AfterMedwyn McConachy: Vasilysa and the Coloured StonesGraem Castell: By Way of Beachy HeadMohamad Kebbewar: FragmentedFrom the Anthology, Off the Map: Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues:Kate Bird: ShelterVenge Dixon: LinusGo to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P119 Dreams Before Extinction, Part 3
Nov 300:40:22Tap to summarizeDark Matter: Women Witnessing, Dreams Before ExtinctionProgram 3 of 3: Readings from the anthologyJoJo Donovan: Dispatches from the Collapse of TimeNora Jamieson: I Am Nothing Without My DeadWendy Gorchinsky Lambo: Making Love With a Three Billion Year Old WomanSusan Cerulean: Bear RequiemJuliana Borrero Echeverry: Landscapes at the End of the WorldORDER THE ANTHOLOGY HEREDark Matter Women WitnessingGo to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P118 Dreams Before Extinction, Part 2
Oct 1300:42:05Tap to summarizeProgram 2 of 3: Readings from the anthologyDeena Metzger: Dreaming Another Language; She Will not KillIntroducing The Literature of RestorationMiriam Greenspan: Seeing in the Dark, from the sectionTo Witness: Seeing in the DarkSharon Rodgers Simone, Fired Anew, from the section Fired Anew: What it Means to HealCynthia Travis, Listen With Your Feet, from the section The Grammar of AnimacyNancy Windheart, Aspen Ways of Knowing, from the sectionWhat We Know in Our BonesGo to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P117 Dreams Before Extinction, Part 1
Sep 2200:48:52Tap to summarizeEdited from the first ten years of the online literary journal "Dark Matter: Women Witnessing," this anthology is a heartfelt and inspiring collection of written and visual responses inspired by dreams, visions, and activism, all aimed at healing our fractured relationship with the earth.Sixty-seven authors from six countries have contributed to this anthology of 79 pieces, spanning 572 pages, divided into nine sections. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P116 American Bloodlines
Sep 200:42:07Tap to summarizeAmerican 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 families, communities and institutions.Summer 1936, Owensboro Kentucky.In just four and a half minutes, an all white, all male jury convicts Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, of the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. Bethea is hanged near the banks of the Ohio River in the last documented public execution in America.Bethea's story comes to author Sonya Lea, who was born in Owensboro, through her family. She reckons with its truths and the broader implications of systemic racism, not just in the past, but in today's culture, politics and justice systems.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
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P115 Bringing Death Home
Aug 1100:38:29Tap to summarizePenny 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 weave words which serve and express the sometimes un-expressible mysteries of love, life and loss.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
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P114 Writing Tips with Arleen Paré
Jul 2100:31:14Tap to summarizeI have made of myself into a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead.from Encrypted by Arleen ParéProlific, award-winning Canadian poet Arleen Paré joins Ingrid Rose in conversation about her books: Paper Trail (2007), Leaving Noe (2011), Lake of Two Mountains (2014), He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (2015), The Girls with Stone Faces (2017), Earle Street (2020), First (2021), Last (2022, Chapbook), Time Out of Time (2022), Don’t Tell: Family Secrets (2022, co-edited with Donna McCart Sharkey), Absence of Wings (2024), Encrypted (2025).Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
Transcribe →P113 Poems
Jun 3000:38:19Tap to summarizePOEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda OldaleThere 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 it as a means to understand and express their personal experiences, covering life's challenges and their responses to the natural world, day by day. Poetry is their chosen tool for transformation.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.
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