Writers Radio

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 sixties to early nineties, continued to meet monthly and recently published a chapbook of their poems and stories. Recording their work for this program, The Pace of Grace,...

Feet of Clay, the title of Graem Castell's epic memoir, refers to the awful behaviors of mankind. This highly enjoyable book [the book, not the title] is filled with pointers to more enlightened living. At 86, Graem looks back on an adventurous life with humour and very few regrets. As a young child, he fled with his mother and baby brother from the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1942; at 19, he served as an officer with the legendary Gurkhas in the jungles of Malaya; in his mid-twenties, he...

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 Manuscript Intensive (VMI) and a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create - grant (2022). Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers ...

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 struggles of working-class people. The experiences and community of her childhood significantly influenced her fictional characters and narratives in "The Light a Body Ra...

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 in touch and occasionally send each other their work. Ingrid Rose and Peter Buckman are cousins. These authors read for us in this episode: Jeremy Page: The Ghost of Haversham...

Re-imagining a classic fairy tale with puppeteer, puppet builder, performer, director and filmmaker Kris Fleerackers. Bored and tired of doing chores, little Lotte Grimm sneaks a peek at a ‘broken’ fairy tale her older brothers have collected. To fix it, she finds a way to enter the story and save its heroine, but not everything goes as planned… 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 r...

meditations on art, myth, archaeology, ceremony, and death Come, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore, / its language of high tide rich and close, / close and hard to see. In her conversation with Ingrid Rose, Miranda discusses how lifelong themes and experiences are interwoven in this book, like the white lines which connect the stones on the cover of her book. Like love renewed while visiting the Bridestones, (sandstone rock formations in Yorkshire). Or world seen from ...

Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community. This will be a two part series; each program will run for three weeks instead of two while our producers take a summer break: Ingrid is off to France and Carole is getting a new hip. PART 1 Cathy Stonehouse: Dream House, A Poem, Nightwood Editions, 2024, short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Awar...