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What Happened Next: a podcast about newish booksChelsea WakelynMy guest on this episode is Chelsea Wakelyn. Chelsea is a musician and author whose debut novel, What Remains of Elsie Jane, was published by Dundurn Press in 2023 and was a finalist for the Foreword Indies award. Author Emily Austin called the novel “a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love.” Chelsea and I talk about losing track, in her twenties, of her initial plan to become a writer, about the enormous losses that finally drove her to write her first novel, and about the sick cosmic joke of lo...
2025-10-2029 min
Concavity ShowEpisode 83 - 2024 Year in ReviewJoin Matt and Dave as they look back at the best of their year in reading during 2024, each with a list of ten(ish) books they found compelling and noteworthy.
Dave's top 10:
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Coexistence by Billy-Rae Belcourt
What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Assembly by Natasha...
2025-01-221h 21
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 17: Chelsea Wakelyn talks about communal grief during the toxic drug crisisABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Chelsea Wakelyn. Chelsea is the author of What Remains of Elsie Jane, which is a finalist for the 2024 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation, Chelsea talks about who Elsie Jane is, and writing autofiction. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About What Remains of Elsie Jane: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/what-remains-of-elsie-jane/ ABOUT CHELSEA WAKELYN: Chelsea Wakelyn is a writer, musician, and mother to two lovely, eccentric humans. She lives on Vancouver Island. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC...
2024-09-2128 min
Writing the Coast: BC and Yukon Book Prizes PodcastSeason 6 Episode 17: Chelsea Wakelyn talks about communal grief during the toxic drug crisisABOUT THIS EPISODE:
In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Chelsea Wakelyn. Chelsea is the author of What Remains of Elsie Jane, which is a finalist for the 2024 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation, Chelsea talks about who Elsie Jane is, and writing autofiction.
Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: bcyukonbookprizes.com/
About What Remains of Elsie Jane: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/what-remains-of-elsie-jane/
ABOUT CHELSEA WAKELYN:
Chelsea Wakelyn is a writer, musician, and mother to two lovely, eccentric humans. She lives on Vancouver Island.
ABOUT MEGAN COLE:
Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC...
2024-09-2128 min
The Women Of Ill ReputeChelsea Wakelyn: HeartbreakWe love books and authors, we consider a lot of them for our podcast, but Vancouver Island’s Chelsea Wakelyn sent us an intriguing email. So we read her first book and got truly blown away. “What Remains of Elsie Jane” is a quasi-fictional story about losing her beloved partner, father to her kids, to drugs and addiction just as the opioid crisis began sweeping B.C. All while Chelsea was in her 30’s. It sounds like a gut-wrencher. And yes, it’s tragic and raw, but it’s also side-splittingly funny.We talked about being a weirdo, lust, Joan Didion...
2024-06-1838 min
Dear Lonely Writer34 - Coming out the Gate Swinging with guest, CHELSEA WAKELYNOn today’s episode of DEAR LONELY WRITER our host, Eden Boudreau chats with the talented Chelsea Wakelyn.
Chelsea Wakelyn’s debut novel, WHAT REMAINS OF ELSIE JANE, is a heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy.
They talk about her poignant novel, how sometimes the isolation is familiar, and why writing in the fever dream is not sustainable but sometimes necessary when called to it.
To learn more about Chelsea and WHAT REMAINS OF ELSIE JANE, find her online:
Website: https://chelseawakelyn.wordpress.com/
Follow our host, Eden Boudreau:
Twitter: @edenboudreau
Instagram: @edenbou...
2023-06-1537 min
What Were You Thinking?Season 3, Episode 5 - An Unconventional Story of Grief - Chelsea Wakelyn, What Remains of Elsie JaneChelsea Wakelyn's debut novel, What Remains of Elsie Jane is not your typical story about loss. When Elsie Jane's husband Sam dies unexpectedly, Elsie does not pretend to be okay. She doesn't acquiesce to the needs of others. She completely falls apart, turning to Craigslist to find a way back to the life she once knew.
2023-03-0747 min
The Village Podcast from The BookshelfBooks, books, and more books (someone has a problem!)It's an oversized episode all about the books we bought, were gifted, or otherwise acquired this month Books Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas Cowan Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn Suite as Sugar: and Other Stories by Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson Our Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha My Hygge Home: How...
2022-11-141h 19