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Today • Premiering at 12:00pm
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Upcoming Events
Interview • Sun Sep 20
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Live Online Event • Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Inheritance
with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams
Live Online Event • Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm
National Launch for Burning Sugar
with Cicely Belle Blain
Interview • Sun Sep 27
Commanding Hope
with Thomas Homer-Dixon
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Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm
The World as We Know It
with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 13
Magdalena: River of Dreams
with Wade Davis
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm
Nerve
with Eva Holland
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 6
Twilight of Democracy
with Anne Applebaum
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Sep 6
The Glass Hotel
with Emily St. John Mandel
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm
The Silver Arrow
with Lev Grossman
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Aug 30
Indians on Vacation
with Thomas King
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm
The Pull of the Stars
With Emma Donoghue
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sun Aug 23
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
with Gaia Vince
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Aug 23
A History of My Brief Body
with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm
Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep
with Frances Itani
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Thu Jun 4
Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics
With Dr. David Waltner-Toews
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Podcast • Today • Premiering at 12:00pm
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Podcast • Tue Sep 22
Confronting History
with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert
Podcast • Fri Sep 25
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
Podcast • Wed Sep 30
Orange Shirt Day
with Michelle Good
Podcast • Fri Oct 2
The Art of the Short Story
with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Podcast
Memoir
Episode 05 • Tue Sep 15
Living with Dying Part Two
with Sheree Fitch and Lorna Crozier
Podcast • Episode 04 • Fri Sep 11
Living with Dying Part One
with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey
Podcast • Episode 03 • Fri Sep 4
Living History
With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson
Podcast • Episode 2 • Fri Aug 28
Surviving and Thriving
With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola
Podcast • Episode 1 • Fri Aug 21
Fear itself
with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones
Podcast • Tue Aug 11
The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast Announced
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