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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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00:51:55

NISHGA with Jordan Abel

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/08/20

David O’Meara sits down with Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel to discuss his latest publication, NISHGA , a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence. As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural

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00:30:54

The Traitor's Blade with Kevin Sands

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/25

Join us for a taste of the latest Blackthorn Key middle grade adventure from Kevin Sands. Kevin spent time with teachers David Farley and Pam Jones and their students at Connaught Public School and Fisher Park Middle School / Summit Alternative School. Christopher’s homecoming takes a sinister turn when a murderous conspiracy is uncovered in The Traitor's Blade, the fifth novel of the award-winning Blackthorn Key series. Christopher, Tom, and Sally are back in London at last. Everyone is

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00:44:17

The Bright Side with Cathrin Bradbury

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/18

Ian Brown, bestselling author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail, sits down with Cathrin Bradbury, a Senior News Director at CBC News, to discuss her acclaimed memoir, The Bright Side: Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle. Cathrin Bradbury's life imploded in the space of a few months. Her beloved parents died, her marriage limped to an end after twenty-five years, her heavily mortgaged house turned against her, and a promising new romance ended in crushing

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00:47:25

Likeness with David Macfarlane

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/18

Ian Brown, bestselling author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail, sits down with David Macfarlane, author of the classic memoir The Danger Tree to discuss his latest, Likeness: Fathers, sons, a portrait, an occasionally hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking meditation on love, memory, and the fathomless depths of grief. Likeness is a multi-generational story told through the vehicle of a painting, a portrait of Macfarlane by the well-known Canadian artist, John Hartman. The painting has

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00:34:32

What You Are with M.G. Vassanji

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/11

Don’t miss this conversation between Peter Schneider, Manager and Executive Secretary of the Public Lending Right Program, and M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award. Vassanji’s latest collection of short fiction, What You Are, explores the tensions between remembering past homes and belonging in new ones. Weaving between wistful memories of youthful ambition and the compromises and comforts of age, travelling between the streets of Dar es

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00:45:09

Change: How to Make Big Things Happen with Damon Centola

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/11

Broadcaster and entrepreneur Mark Sutcliffe sits down with Damon Centola, Director of the Network Dynamics Group at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of the bestseller, Change: How to Make Big Things Happen . When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex. When we are exposed to a new idea, our

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00:50:17

A Girl Called Echo with Katherena Vermette

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/04

We celebrate Katherena Vermette’s graphic novel series, A Girl Called Echo, on the occasion of the fourth volume’s publication. The Governor General’s Award winning Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, sits down with fellow Winnipeg GG winner David Alexander Robertson, author of the acclaimed Misewa Saga and numerous graphic novels, including Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story. In Vermette’s Road Allowance Era, Echo’s story picks up again when she travels back in time to

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00:49:05

Because the Sun with Sarah Burgoyne

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/06/04

Don’t miss this conversation hosted by nina jane drystek, a 2020 Bronwen Wallace Award-nominee and acclaimed experimental poet Sarah Burgoyne, about her second collection, Because the Sun , which thinks with and against Camus’ extensive notebooks and the iconic outlaw film Thelma & Louise. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books . The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider ubscribing to our newsletter and making a

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00:47:44

China with Edward Rutherfurd

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/21

Edward Rutherfurd returns to the Festival with his latest bestseller, China: The Novel, for a conversation with Janet Somerville, author, educator and reviewer of Historical Fiction for the Toronto Star. Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of readers with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom. The story begins in

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00:34:19

The Good Father with Wayne Grady

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/21

Kingston’s Wayne Grady returns to the Festival for a conversation with Susan Johnston, host of CKCU’s Asking for A Friend, about his latest book, The Good Father, his first contemporary novel. Told in alternating perspectives, it comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception and the price we pay for second chances. Every story has two sides, two perspectives. And when it comes to a relationship between a

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00:41:25

Hummingbird Salamander with Jeff VanderMeer

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/14

Join the Festival’s Artistic Director, Sean Wilson, for a conversation on Hummingbird Salamander, a speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things, with international bestseller Jeff VanderMeer. Software manager Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. Alongside the key is a list of five other animals. The list is signed, "Love, Silvina." Jane does not know a Silvina, and she wants

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00:29:57

Bruised with Tanya Boteju

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/14

Don’t miss acclaimed author Kagiso Lesego Molope, winner of the City of Ottawa Book Award, in conversation with Vancouver’s Tanya Boteju. Bruised is a vibrant coming-of-age story about a teen girl navigating first love, identity, and grief as she immerses herself in the colorful, brutal, beautiful world of roller derby—from the acclaimed author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens. To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an accident she survived,

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00:33:55

Why Birds Sing with Nina Berkhout

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/07

Susan Johnston, host of CKCU’s Asking for A Friend, sits down with acclaimed Ottawa-based author and poet Nina Berkhout to talk about her most recent novel, Why Birds Sing. After a very public onstage flameout, a disgraced opera singer is confronted with her crumbling marriage, a prickly and unexpected brother-in-law, and a cheeky parrot named Tulip ? and she must learn to whistle her way through it all. From the author of Harper’s Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel The Gallery of Lost Species comes a

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00:38:17

Elizabeth & Margaret with Andrew Morton

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/05/07

Join the Toronto Star’s Books Editor, Deborah Dundas for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Andrew Morton. Andrew’s latest international bestseller, Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between

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00:51:44

The Girl from Dream City with Linda Leith

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/30

Peter Schneider, Manager and Executive Secretary of the Public Lending Right Program, sits down with author and publisher Linda Leith to discuss her memoir, The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life . It's the life that many dream of: education in some of Europe's most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist, translator and literary curator. But the start of Linda Leith's journey is anything but idyllic. The daughter of a glamorous mother and a charming left-wing doctor, she is

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00:31:38

On Time and Water with Andri Snaer Magnason

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/30

Neil Wilson, Director of The Republic of Childhood, sits down with Iceland’s Andri Snaer Magnason, a finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize, to talk about his latest book, On Time and Water. Asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced, Andri Snær Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, protested: he wasn’t a specialist, he said. It wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot

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00:57:09

A Desolation Called Peace with Arkady Martine

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/23

Don’t miss this conversation with Arkady Martine, the Hugo Award Winning author of the Teixcalaan books, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace . In addition to her work in speculative fiction, she is a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization, and resiliency planning. In A Desolation Called Peace, an alien armada lurks on the

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00:33:27

Mythical Man with David Ly

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/23

We celebrate poetry month with a conversation between Ellen Chang-Richardson, the founder of Little Birds Poetry and the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, and David Ly about his debut collection, Mythical Man . David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of race and identity mix in the poetry, casting a spell that enters like "a warm tongue on a first date.” Books

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00:45:47

Hana Khan Carries On

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/16

Bestselling author Ausma Zehanat Khan hosts a conversation with Uzma Jalaluddin about her acclaimed new YA novel, Hana Khan Carries On. From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com set in two competing halal restaurants. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at

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00:50:14

Tainna: The Unseen Ones with Norma Dunning

Writers Festival Radio ·

2021/04/09

Educator, author, editor and publisher. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm hosts a conversation with Dr. Norma Dunning about her latest collection of stories, Tainna: The Unseen Ones . Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by

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