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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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19 Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press featuring Sachiko...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/30

Poet Nina Jane Drystek hosts conversations with two incredible poets, both published by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press. Render is Sachiko Murakami's intimate and unflinching poetic memoir. In it, she travels the non-linear path of addiction to recovery, how it shifts over time, and what happens when it is translated through poetry. Looking beyond the straightforward, happily-ever-after narrative, Murakami wades through the aftermath of her addiction and questions what happens to trauma when it is

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00:56:10

18 Craft, Content and Process Featuring andrea...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/27

This episode features a conversation between two of our most innovative and interesting authors and poets. Join them for a deep dive on the craft and the process at work in their most recent publications. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett’s experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected

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01:10:26

17 Imagining Worlds (part 2) Featuring MR Carey and...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/23

Join Sean Wilson in conversation with MR Carey and Hattie Klotz in conversation with Lauren Buekes. Everything that lives hates us: That’s the reality M.R. Carey is exploring in The Rampart Trilogy. The award-winning author of the Lucifer comics and The Girl With All The Gifts returns with The Book of Koli. Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you

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00:54:32

16 Imagining Worlds (part 1) Featuring David A....

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/23

Join Sean Wilson in conversation with David A. Robertson and Kate Heartfield in conversation with Derek Kunsken. Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in The Barren Grounds, an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each

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00:42:41

15 Letting Go of Anxiety with Tara Henley

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/20

CBC’s Olivia Robinson hosts a conversation with Tara Henley about the modern world--and why so many feel disillusioned by it. In 2016, journalist Tara Henley was at the top of her game working in Canadian media. She had traveled the world, from Soweto to Bangkok and Borneo to Brooklyn, interviewing authors and community leaders, politicians and Hollywood celebrities. But when she started getting chest pains at her desk in the newsroom, none of that seemed to matter. The health crisis--not

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01:26:24

14 Crime and Punishment Featuring Katie Tallo, Amy...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/16

This episode celebrates the thrill of a good mystery. Our three guest authors have all spent a lot of time thinking about where to hide the bodies and how best to through us off the scent. It’s a good thing they are using those powers to delight and entertain!. CBC's Lucy van Oldenbarneveld interviews Katie Tallo and Scott Thornley and Andrew Pyper interviews Amy Stuart. Dark August is the internationally bestselling debut of Ottawa’s own Katie Tallo. It’s a page-turning mystery about a young

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01:29:07

13 Lies That Tell Us Truth Featuring Shani Mootoo,...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/13

Do we ever really tell the truth, even to ourselves? This episode features three novels that examine the lies and truths at the heart of our most intimate relationships: Seductive and tension-filled, Polar Vortex by Giller Prize nominee Shani Mootoo is a story of secrets, deceptions, and revenge. It asks if we ever free from our pasts? Do we deserve to be? A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale about loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and female friendship and desire, Mona

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00:56:08

12 Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth Featuring...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/09

All history is a kind of fiction, and the best stories are often built around real people and places, so what can we learn from invented truths and our relationship with imagination and investigation? This episode features Helen Humphreys in conversation with Frances Boyle and Will Ferguson in conversation with artsfile.ca's Peter Robb. Based on a true story, Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys is about a lonely boy in a prairie town who befriends a vagrant in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking

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00:58:24

11 Agency and Consent Featuring Rebecca Watson and...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/06

Two of the seasons most anticipated releases explore the inner lives of women, and the realities we too-often try to ignore. Resentment and resilience, rage and regret: There is turbulence under the surface, unacknowledged causes and effects that reverberate through lives. This episode features Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon in conversation with Author and educator Julie S. Lalonde. Fiercely moving and slyly profound, little scratch by Rebecca Watson reveals a young woman's every thought over

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01:17:09

10 The Art of the Short Story with David Bergen,...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/10/02

Join us in celebration of the art and craft of the short story. How do these acclaimed authors distill the human experience into such a concentrated form? How can they illumine so much of live’s ambiguity with so few words? This episode features Frances Boyle in conversation with artsfile.ca's Peter Robb and Rhonda Douglas with David Bergen and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, and featuring a novella about a young woman who

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00:46:24

09 Orange Shirt Day with Michelle Good

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/30

This episode features Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm in conversation with Michelle Good about her new novel, Five Little Indians. The annual Orange Shirt Day on September 30th opens the door to global conversation on all aspects of Residential Schools. It is an opportunity to create meaningful discussion about the effects of Residential Schools and the legacy they have left behind. A discussion all Canadians can tune into and create bridges with each other for reconciliation. Taken from their families

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00:58:36

08 Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/25

Is there anything more mysterious and more fundamental to our lives than the human brain? But do any of us really understand how our brains work, where consciousness comes from or how best to deal with our unique quirks of perception? This episode features Stephen Brockwell in conversation with neuroscientist David Eagleman and Nina Jane Drystek in conversation with autistic self advocate and essayist Sarah Kurchak. Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing

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01:02:43

07 Confronting History with Francesca Ekwuyasi and...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/22

Some think of history as something distinct from the here and now, but for bettor or worse, history is always with us. Clearly, some history needs to be confronted if we are ever going to learn from it. This episode features Shaena Lambert in conversation with Peter Schneider and Francesca Ekwuyasi in conversation with Catherine Hernandez. Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a

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00:50:41

06 Marathon of Hope with Darrell Fox

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/18

Mark Sutcliffe hosts a conversation with Darrell Fox, Terry’s younger brother, who joined Terry and his friend Doug Alward, on the Marathon of Hope in Saint John, New Brunswick, in May 1980, at the age of 17. To mark the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters recounts the inspiration, dedication, and perseverance that Terry Fox embodied, and gives voice to an icon whose example spoke much louder than his words. Comprising 40 letters from 40 contributors,

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01:13:55

05 Living with Dying Part 2 with Sheree Fitch and...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/15

We seem to avoid thinking about mortality, or talking about loss, but it is an unavoidable fact that we all face the loss of a loved one, and will each confront that truth in different ways. If grief is unavoidable, what is the best way to make peace with it? Part Two of Living With Dying features Sheree Fitch in conversation with Neil Wilson, and Lorna Crozier in conversation with CBC’s Sandra Abma. In the wake of her son's unexpected death, author and storyteller Sheree Fitch wrote it all

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01:00:30

04 Living With Dying Part 1 with Dakshana...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/11

We seem to avoid thinking about mortality, or talking about loss, but it is an unavoidable fact that we all face the loss of a loved one, and will each confront that truth in different ways. If grief is unavoidable, what is the best way to make peace with it? Part One of Living With Dying features Dakshana Bascaramurty in conversation with CBC’s Idill Mussa, and Anita Lahey in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson. This is Not the End of Me by Dakshana Bascaramurty is the moving, inspiring

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01:13:20

03 Living History with Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/09/04

We sometimes think of history as something distant, but the more we explore the past, the more we see the present reflected, the lessons learned and the lessons we are still trying to get right. This episode features Aislinn Hunter in conversation with Sean Wilson, and Gil Adamson in conversation with Carleton's Susan Birkwood. The Certainties, by Aislinn Hunter is a moving and transformative blend of historical and speculative fiction--a novel that shows us what it means to bear witness, and

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00:46:48

02 WRITERS FESTIVAL RADIO Thriving And Surviving

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/08/28

Our second episode is all about Thriving and Surviving. Novelist Farzana Doctor speaks with actor and writer Joanne Vannicola about her book All We Knew But Couldn't Say. From our video series we have included a reading by Billy-Ray Belcourt's latest work A History of My Brief Body. Followed by Natasha Coldevin and Elaina Martin discussing Elaina's memoir Dyke, the first in a three book series.

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01:24:37

01 WRITERS FESTIVAL RADIO Fear Itself

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/08/21

Why do we love scary stories? Has the pandemic changed the way we think about horror? Are we more or less willing to take a fictional walk into the darkness during these difficult times? In our inaugural podcast, Artistic Director, Sean Wilson speaks with three talented authors. Two of the three books- Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians and Andrew Pyper's The Residence, would best be described as horror novels or thrillers and one, the story collection Cascade by Craig Davidson is not,

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00:03:11

The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2020/08/10

Teaser announcing upcoming podcast by The Ottawa International Writers Festival.

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