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Writers Festival Radio

Ottawa International Writers Festival

About the Writers Festival The imagination is our most valuable renewable resource. So, twice a year we convene an international celebration of ideas to recharge our imaginations. From politics to poetry, science to music, history to thrillers, we celebrate the full diversity of the word and the gifted writers who guide us in our exploration of the world. Our year-round special events keep the ideas coming between Festivals. We believe that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured

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All Episodes

01:05:40

Four Lost Cities with Annalee Newitz

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/26

Join Sean Wilson for a conversation with acclaimed author and journalist Annalee Newitz on their bestselling book, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, a quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the

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00:39:36

The Relatives with Camilla Gibb

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/26

Author, editor and poet, Rhonda Douglas hosts a conversation with Camilla Gibb, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award about her new novel, The Relatives . Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity

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00:54:43

The Deficit Myth with Stephanie Kelton

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/19

Our Artistic Director, Sean Wilson, hosts a conversation with Stephanie Kelton, the leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory. Her book, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, is a bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society. Stephanie Kelton's exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and

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00:41:55

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted with Gary Barwin

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/19

Author, editor and poet, Stuart Ross, hosts a conversation with Gary Barwin, author of the Giller Prize shortlisted Yiddish for Pirates, about his latest novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy

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00:45:44

Gutter Child with Jael Richardson

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/12

Amanda Leduc, author of The Centaur’s Wife, in conversation with her friend and colleague Jael Richardson, founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity, and author of the bestselling novel Gutter Child. Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and

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00:41:27

A Town Called Solace with Mary Lawson

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/12

Deborah Dundas, Books Editor at the Toronto Star, in conversation with New York Times bestseller Mary Lawson. Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart,” is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work. A Town Called Solace opens on a family in crisis: rebellious teenager Rose been missing for weeks with no word, and Rose's younger sister, the feisty and

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00:34:28

Speak, Silence with Kim Echlin

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/05

Author and poet, Rhonda Douglas, hosts a conversation with Kim Echlin, the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared. Her latest, Speak, Silence, is a poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all. It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in

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00:41:16

Blaze Island with Catherine Bush

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/03/05

Author and poet, Rhonda Douglas, hosts a conversation with novelist Catherine Bush whose latest, Blaze Island, was a Globe and Mail Best Book, a Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book and was praised as “One of the 20 books you need to read this winter” by Maclean’s Magazine. The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island

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00:25:18

The Centaur’s Wife with Amanda Leduc

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/02/26

Author and educator Julie S. Lalonde hosts a conversation with acclaimed author Amanda Leduc. Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, The Centaur’s Wife , is woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic. It is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please

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00:35:57

The Push with Ashley Audrain

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/02/26

Author and journalist Hattie Klotz hosts a conversation with Ashley Audrain whose debut novel, The Push , was an instant national bestseller. A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you

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00:46:06

29 Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life with...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/12/04

Improvisation offers us insights into communication that just might open new doors to discovery and enchantment that could enrich our lives and lead to a deeper and fuller appreciation of what it means to connect with people and our environment. What does this mean in the lives of children who are just beginning to discover their own voices and agency?

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01:11:07

28 Protecting the Well Being of Children Featuring...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/12/01

This Republic of Childhood episode of the podcast examines the importance of early childhood education in preventing stigma and trauma in young people with Kim Hellemans, Chair Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University and Jane Bertrand, Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation.

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01:00:31

27 Student Activism and the Climate Crisis Featuring...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/27

In this Republic of Childhood episode we examine the role of student activism in the face of the climate crisis with student activist Alexis Benns, and look at how we can reimagine schools that honour the histories of Indigenous, Black and Racialized populations with educator and scholar Dr Vidya Shah. We take a look at the myth of neutrality in curriculum development and ask can we really have climate change without system change?

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00:22:24

26 War At The Snow White Motel with Tim Wynne-Jones

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/27

This Republic of Childhood episode spotlights Tim Wynne-Jones, two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. In his latest collection of stories, War at the Snow White Motel, Rex and his family are vacationing in Vermont. A thoughtless act launches him into war with an older teenager at their motel, but a much bigger conflict — the Vietnam War — looms large on the horizon. Ant wants to join the #FridaysForFuture movement — and

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00:45:12

25 Education and Social Mobility with Andy Hargreaves

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/24

In this Republic of Childhood episode we take a look at education and social mobility. Have we really transcended class in our school system? In Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up

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01:06:10

24 Writing for Young Readers featuring Kenneth Oppel...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/20

November 20 is Universal Children’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. To celebrate we are launching our fourth Republic of Childhood season with an exciting program of interviews of writers by students, conversations with young activists and innovative educators weighing in on amplifying the voices and concerns of children and youth. This episode of the podcast celebrates two of Canada’s most acclaimed writers for young readers. Governor

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01:04:56

23 Yes, It's Systemic featuring Eternity Martis and...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/17

CBC's Idil Mussa hosts Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt. This episode of the podcast takes a hard look at racial belonging in contemporary Canada. For too long the conversation on race in Canada has been framed by issues south of the border. Here, we examine our own culture and some of the ongoing barriers to equity and inclusion. They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis is a powerful memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly

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01:15:22

22 The Ever-Present Past featuring Maggie O’Farrell...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/13

Join us for a taste of two remarkable historical novels that are rooted in the past, but speak to our current preoccupations and challenges. While this year of pandemic and social unrest feels unprecedented, we are not the first to live in interesting times. From Shakespear’s England in 1580 to Mexico in the 1960s, much of what we are facing echoes throughout history. Peter Schneider hosts Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and J.F. Martel hosts Sarah Xerar Murphy, winner

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01:19:07

21 Fighting for Peace Featuring Tim Cook and Scott...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/11

Our Remembrance Day podcast features Mark Sutcliffe in conversation with Canadian historian Tim Cook on how World War Two has been remembered and taught over the past 75 years, and CBC's Laurence Wall in conversation with Scott Anderson on his bestselling look at the early years of the Cold War and the CIA's covert battles against communism. Both authors examine military history and its role in our culture today. Tim Cook’s The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war

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00:44:00

20 A Life with Books, Writers and Virago: Emma...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/11/06

Playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Emma Donoghue hosts a conversation with editor and author Lennie Goodings about her book, A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago. Part memoir, part literary history, and part reflection on more than forty years of feminist publishing, A Bite of the Apple is a story of idealism and pragmatism, solidarity and individual ambition, of challenges met and the battles not yet won—and, above all, a steadfast celebration of the making and reading

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