Writers Radio

Updated: 02 Sep 2025 • 114 episodes
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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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02 Sep 2025 • EN

P116 American Bloodlines

American 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, al

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11 Aug 2025 • EN

P115 Bringing Death Home

Penny 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 a

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I have made of myself into a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead. from Encrypted by Arleen Paré Prolific, 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 Le

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30 Jun 2025 • EN

P113 Poems

POEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale There 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 th

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09 Jun 2025 • EN

P112 The Pace of Grace

Women Who Write is the title chosen by a group of eight women for their writing group, which formed after they met in a Simon Fraser University continuing studies creative writing class in Vancouver, facilitated by Ingrid Rose. This gathering occurred over ten years ago. The eight of them, with ages ranging from their

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19 May 2025 • EN

Death of Persephone

DEATH OF PERSEPHONE: A MURDER An award-winning Canadian poet reimagines the Greek myth of Persephone in her 2024 release from Caitlin Press. “Hardboiled detective tropes meet classical myths and free-form poetry. A breathtaking work of imaginative cross-pollination”    Will Ferguson, Giller Prize-winning author of 419

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