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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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00:33:20

Umbilical Cord with Hasan Namir

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/11/05

Award winning author, public speaker and LGBTQ-Refugee activist, Danny Ramadan hosts this conversation on poetry, parenthood and hope with Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir. Hasan’s latest acclaimed collection, Umbilical Cord , includes joyful perspectives about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with

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00:50:43

A Time Outside This Time with Amitava Kumar

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/29

Don’t miss this conversation between the Festival’s Sean Wilson and Amitava Kumar, the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana. His latest, A Time Outside This Time, is a one-of-a-kind novel about fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own. When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: President Trump rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and

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00:44:08

Nice White Ladies with Jessie Daniels

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/22

Nora Loreto, author, journalist and co-host of the podcast Sandy and Nora Talk Politics hosts a conversation with author and professor Jessie Daniels. Her acclaimed new book is Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It. In a culture deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their

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00:39:46

On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/15

The Festival’s Neil Wilson sits down with author and journalist Elaine Dewar, winner of nine National Magazine awards, to discuss her latest publication, On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation . "[Dewar] has spent the pandemic following the politics, the scientific research, the news coverage—and the money … Her book casts a shadow over the wet market theory and points a finger at the Chinese government—and at some scientists and leading science journals for their

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01:10:17

What Storm, What Thunder with Myriam J.A. Chancy

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/15

CBC’s Adrian Harewood sits down with Myriam J.A. Chancy to discuss her acclaimed new novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, What Storm, What Thunder. At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster–Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive

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00:50:13

The Book of Form and Emptiness with Ruth Ozeki

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/08

Sean Wilson sits down with novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki to discuss The Book of Form and Emptiness , an inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things. Don’t miss this conversation with the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a

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00:32:08

The Listeners with Jordan Tannahill

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/08

Poet and playwright David O’Meara sits down with two-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner and 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Jordan Tannahill to discuss The Listeners, a propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound that no one else can hear. One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause,

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00:49:05

The Death of Francis Bacon with Max Porter

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/01

Join us for a conversation between Robert J. Wiersema and Booker-Nominee Max Porter about his latest book, The Death of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon is on his deathbed. Max Porter reimagines his final dying fever dreams in a magisterial appreciation of one of the greatest artists of all time. It is as filthy, clever, luminescent, dark and wild as Bacon himself. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter

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00:34:26

Ripping down half the trees with Evan J

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/10/01

Join us for a conversation between chris johnson, ARC Poetry’s Managing Editor, and Evan J, poet, advocate and educator, on his collection Ripping down the trees . One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students are often afflicted by severe racism, poverty, addictions, and violence. Ripping down half the trees engages with these struggles, offering a catalogue of experiences specific to the remote

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00:48:21

Tenderness with Alison MacLeod

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/24

CKCU’s Susan Johnston sits down with Booker Prize nominee Alison MacLeod to discuss Tenderness , an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it

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00:40:50

The Spectacular with Zoe Whittall

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/24

Don’t miss the conversation between acclaimed author Amanda Leduc and Lambda Literary Award winning author, poet and screenwriter, Zoe Whittall on her latest novel, The Spectacular . It’s taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the author of The Best Kind of People. In her new book, Zoe Whittall captures three

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00:47:53

Undersong with Kathleen Winter

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/17

Acclaimed author and Toronto Star contributor Janet Somerville sits down with Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter about her latest, Undersong , a reimagining of the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth. When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets writer Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he’s never met another woman anything like her. In her early thirties at the time of the meeting, Dorothy has

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00:44:10

The Retreat with Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/17

Don’t miss this conversation between two bestselling masters of suspense. Amy Stuart, author of Still Here, sits down with Elisabeth de Mariaffi to discuss her new novel, The Retreat. Everyone has a secret to keep . . . Maeve Martin arrives at the High Water Center for the Arts determined to do one thing: launch her own dance company. Time is running out for the former principal dancer and mother of two to find her feet again after the collapse of a disastrous and violent marriage. At first,

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00:47:29

Life in the City of Dirty Water with Clayton...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/10

Join us for a conversation between the Festival’s Neil Wilson and Clayton Thomas-Muller, author of Life in the City of Dirty Water, an electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, Tying together personal stories of survival that bring the realities of the First Nations of this land into sharp focus, and lessons learned from a career as a frontline activist committed to addressing environmental injustice at a global scale, Thomas-Muller

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00:31:25

The Last Exiles with Ann Shin

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/10

CBC’s Judy Trinh hosts a conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ann Shin, about her debut novel, The Last Exiles , a searing portrait of a young couple in Pyongyang and their fight for love and freedom Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash

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01:11:29

Where Beauty Survived with George Elliott Clarke

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/03

Don’t miss this conversation between acclaimed author, editor and translator, Wayne Grady and internationally-renowned poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, librettist and scholar, George Elliott Clarke, on his latest publication, Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir At the book’s heart is George’s turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. George recalls Bill using a bowl of white sugar and a bowl of

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00:49:57

How to Be Animal with Melanie Challenger

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/09/03

What makes us human, and why are we so sure we're different from other animals? Sean Wilson sits down with Melanie Challenger to discuss her acclaimed new book, How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human. Using a combination of memoir, historical texts, interweaving interviews and cultural and environmental history, How to Be Animal is a book for anyone who has ever contemplated what humans are and what makes our species so simultaneously brilliant and awful. Even more so, it is a

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00:40:41

Satellite Love with Genki Ferguson

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/08/27

Join the Festival’s Sean Wilson for a conversation with debut novelist Genki Ferguson. Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is an unconventional story about a girl, a boy, and a satellite--and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. 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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00:34:24

The Snow Line with Tessa McWatt

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/08/27

Join us for a conversation between poet Manahil Bandukwala and Tessa McWatt, the author of The Snow Line, a novel that explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. 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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01:12:19

Better Not Bitter with Yusef Salaam

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/08/20

CBC’s Adrian Harewood hosts prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, for a conversation on his acclaimed memoir, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice. Better Not Bitter is the first time that one of the now Exonerated Five is telling his individual story, in his own words. Yusef writes his narrative: growing up Black in central Harlem in the '80s, being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother, his years of incarceration, his reentry,

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