Writers Radio

Angela J. Grey Angela writes about race, equity, and the impact of colonization on all peoples in Canada. She offers a unique perspective on children of the African/Caribbean diaspora who are adopted into white families- a part of Canadian history that is not well documented. Angela is a graduate of the Vancouver Manus

Readings in Three Voices by Medwyn McConachy "to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race." Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 1966, that she would become a writer and fiber artist, live in cities, the north, and on an island, become a witch, and ch

Ethel Whitty says, "I write about extraordinary, ordinary women searching for their own truths."   Ethel Whitty was born and raised on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. Those were years when the depth and warmth of the culture had to be balanced against the island"s isolation and the stru

Barbara Baydala from Ladner, BC, writes A Family of Poems I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio that I can’t write about my father without placing the two of us amidst our family in all its many guises. Vancouver poet

Twice a year, we have a themed call for submissions from our pool of writers. I didn’t know what to expect when I asked for Good Bedtime Stories. Serendipity was at work. Jeremy Page and Alison Goeller met in an online class on mystery writing and were eventually paired off to critique each other"s work. They"ve kept i

The loneliness of narrative, the loneliness of seeking truth, is our human condition. It is our task as writers. Betsy Warland Betsy’s popular inquiry into the act of writing, Breathing the Page, Reading the Act of Writing is in its second edition with an additional ten essays. Betsy reads one of these essays: Narrativ