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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

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S4 EP12 Poguemahone with Patrick McCabe

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/07

"Poguemahone is like a high dive: The toughest part of reading it might be convincing your feet to leave the board. Once you’ve done that, gravity does the rest." —New York Times The Festival’s Neil Wilson sits down with Patrick McCabe for a conversation about his latest, Poguemahone , an epic reinvention of the verse novel that combines Modernist fragmentation and Beat spontaneity with Irish folklore, then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire. Poguemahone is a swirling, psychedelic, bleakly

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00:54:52

S4 EP11 The Book of Grief and Hamburgers with Stuart...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/07

Join Stephen Brockwell for a conversation with author, poet and editor Stuart Ross about his latest publication, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, a poignant meditation on mortality. A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves

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S4 E10 Jamilah at the End of the World with Mary-Lou...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/31

Join us for a conversation between the Festival’s Neil Wilson and acclaimed author Mary-Lou Zeitoun about her latest young adult novel, Jamilah at the End of the World . Set against the backdrop of a brutal Toronto summer heatwave, seventeen-year-old Jamilah Monsour makes plans for what she’s certain is the beginning of the climate change catastrophe that will end the world. Luckily, Jamilah knows what has to be done to save her family: transform the back alley garage into a bunker. Reluctantly her

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S4 E9 Looking for Jane with Heather Marshall

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/31

Weaving together the lives of three women, Looking for Jane is an unforgettable debut about the devastating consequences that come from a lack of choice - and the enduring power of a mother’s love. Don’t miss this conversation between Janet Somerville and Heather Marshall. 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

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00:29:18

S4 E8 The Artist and the Assassin with Mark Frutkin

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/24

CKCU’s Susan Johnston sits down with Mark Frutkin, the Trillium Book Award-wining author of Fabrizio's Return about his latest historical novel, The Artist and the Assassin . The play of light and shadow defines Mark Frutkin's vibrant narrative based on the life of the seventeenth-century painter known as Caravaggio, whose revolutionary use of the chiaroscuro technique fuelled his dazzling success while his demons led him down the path of exile and, ultimately, assassination. Books are available

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00:55:55

S4 E7 Intimacies with Katie Kitamura

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/24

Sean Wilson sits down with Katie Kitamura, whose latest acclaimed bestseller, Intimacies, was one of the best reviews novels of 2021. It was a New York Times TOP 10 Book, Longlisted for the National Book Award and a “best book of the year” from Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many

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S4 E6 Nuclear Family with Jean van Loon

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/17

Poet and playwright David O’Meara sits down with City of Ottawa Book Award finalist Jean Van Loon to discuss her latest collection, Nuclear Family. Jean Van Loon’s father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. The Geiger counter he brought home exposed her mother’s dinner plate as radioactive. Her childhood friend’s father sold cobalt bombs to the Soviet Union. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada’s Cold War intelligence

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00:43:31

S4 E5 Animal Person with Alexander MacLeod

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/17

Acclaimed critic Steven W. Beattie sits down with Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod to discuss Animal Person , his new story collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a "must-read book" by Maclean's. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the

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S4 E4 Easy Beauty with Chloe Cooper Jones

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/10

Writer, Speaker and Producer Dev Ramsawakh talks with Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—about Easy Beauty , her groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through

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00:39:22

S4 E3 The Nutmeg's Curse with Amitav Ghosh

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/10

" With literary precision, he delves into the history and culture of conquest, drawing a direct line from actions committed hundreds of years ago to the planet’s current predicament. A singular achievement and a title of its time, The Nutmeg’s Curse reminds us why the land is crying." –Booklist Sean Wilson sits down with Amitav Ghosh to discuss his latest, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis . In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, Amitav finds the origins of our

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00:39:16

S4 E2 This Is Assisted Dying with Dr. Stefanie Green

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/03

Join us for a conversation between Jana Buhlmann and Dr. Stefanie Green, a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who began her career in the maternity ward and now helps patients who are suffering explore and then fulfill their end of life choices. Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can

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01:01:12

S4 E1 The Fell With Sarah Moss

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/05/03

Peter Schneider sits down with the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater. Sarah Moss’s latest novel The Fell is a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the ever-nearness of disaster. Sarah Moss’s The Fell is a story of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and compassion. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it asks probing questions about how close so many live to the edge and about who we are in the world, who we are to our neighbors, and who we become when the

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00:27:12

WFR Season 3: A Quick Look Back

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/04/27

Join us for a look back at some highlights from past seasons of Writers Festival Radio as we head towards our 25th Anniversary this Fall. This recap spotlights some content from Season 3, which ran in the Fall of 2021. Click play to hear from Yusef Salaam, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Jordan Abel, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Melanie Challenger and Myriam J.A. Chancy. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like

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00:30:42

WFR Season 2: A Quick Look Back

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/04/26

Join us for a look back at some highlights from past seasons of Writers Festival Radio as we head towards our 25th Anniversary this Fall. This recap spotlights some content from Season 2, which ran in the Spring of 2021. Click play for interview clips featuring Stephanie Kelton, Annalee Newitz, Arkady Martine and Andri Snaer Magnason, and brief readings by Amanda Leduc, Kim Echlin, Jael Richardson and Camilla Gibb.

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00:30:18

WFR Season 1: A Quick Look Back

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/04/26

Join us for a look back at some highlights from past seasons of Writers Festival Radio as we head towards our 25th Anniversary this Fall. This recap spotlights some content from Season 1, which ran in the Fall of 2020. Click play for interview clips featuring Aislinn Hunter, David Eagleman, Will Ferguson, Shani Mootoo, Tara Henley and Stephen Nachmanovitch, and brief readings by Craig Davidson, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Andrew Pyper and Francis Boyle. Books are available from our friends

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00:34:00

The Weight of Sand with Edith Blais

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/26

Lisa Samson hosts a conversation with Edith Blais on The Weight of Sand, her unforgettable memoir of the 450 days she spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a deep friendship over their shared passions: travel, living off the land, a bohemian life. In search of wanderlust, they embark on an epic road trip from Italy to Togo, where they will join

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00:43:07

The Spirits Up with Todd Babiak

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/26

The Festival’s Sean Wilson hosts a conversation with Alberta Book Award winner Todd Babiak about his latest acclaimed work, The Spirits Up, an unforgettable story of a family desperate for something to believe in. Benedict is an inventor whose life’s work is a clean energy machine. It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family is suddenly wealthy. Benedict’s wife, Karen, and his teenage daughters, Charlotte and Poppy, are proud of him. But there are problems Benedict is too busy to

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00:44:24

Finish this Sentence with Leslie Roach

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/19

Writer, visual artist, and editor, Manahil Bandukwala hosts a conversation with acclaimed poet and lawyer Leslie Roach on her debut collection, Finish this Sentence. The poems examine personal experience in living with racism and healing from its distorting effects on the Self. As this book weaves through the anger and anxiety provoked by racism, it points to the ultimate realization: one is neither the conditioning nor the negative thoughts that racism provokes. Rather, one is powerful and able

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00:52:17

It Doesn't Matter What We Meant with Rob Winger

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/19

Join our host, Stephen Brockwell, for a conversation with Governor General's Award, Trillium Book Award and Ottawa Book Award-nominee Rob Winger on It Doesn't Matter What We Meant , a collection of poems that question perception, meaning, and context. Partly an investigation of system versus system error, It Doesn't Matter What We Meant asks us to own up to our own inherited contexts, our own luck or misfortune, our own ways of moving through each weekday. From meditations on sleepy wind

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00:33:29

Permanent Astonishment with Tomson Highway

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/12

Don’t miss this conversation between Elaine Bomberry, arts activist, promoter, producer, and former General Manager of Native Earth Performing Arts, and her big-hearted and joyful friend Tomson Highway, one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers. We are thrilled to welcome Tomson back to the Festival to celebrate the launch of his memoir, Permanent Astonishment . Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic,

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