December 6th, 2015
I chatted with Dina Del Bucchia, author of three books of poetry and general brilliant literary and public figure. Listen here!
Author Archives: Chelsea Rooney
November 9th, 2015
I interviewed Vancouver living theatre legend Deb Williams about her passion for storytelling and her highlights and lowlights on stage. Listen here!
November 1st, 2015
Please listen to my conversation with the brilliant and adorable Andrea Warner, author of WE OUGHTA KNOW: HOW FOUR WOMEN RULED THE 90s AND CHANGED CANADIAN MUSIC. We chat about women in music, misogyny in the media and who Warner would cast in her all-woman dream festival. Listen here!
October 4th, 2015
My guest artist Zoe Kreye has a beautiful exhibit now at Western Front called EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS. Hear her talk about the process of making embodied sculptures as she moved through grief. Link here.
September 20th, 2015
My guest Emily Davidson reads us her poem published in this year’s anthology of Best Canadian Poetry. We chat literature, Vancouver, and being far away from home. Listen here!
September 16, 2015
I was thrilled to visit the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus and do a reading and discussion for the Creative Writing program’s Visiting Author Series. What a beautiful campus and a warm and critical class of writers. Thank you Michael V. Smith and Matt Radar for inviting me.
September 13th, 2015
Last night on The Storytelling Show, host Vanessa Woznow and I talked about the virtues of failure and our impending death. Good times here!
September 13th, 2015
On last night’s Storytelling Show, host Vanessa Woznow and I talked about the virtues of failure and embracing our impending death. Good times here!
August 30th, 2015
Jen Neale, writer and bowler, spent the summer on Ruxton Island, a remote seaside community where she had to canoe back and forth for groceries. Hear her story here!
July 22nd, 2015
NEW REVIEW OF PEDAL ON LITERARY GOON: “Rooney has specifically chosen a repulsive and uncommercial topic as her primary source of creative inspiration, and that’s not for everyone…These aren’t comfortable or fun questions, but Pedal is undeniably fun to read regardless—and not just because Rooney is a playful and evocative prose-smith.”
