Past Events

Special Presentation In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Aug 6 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian • 120 Lisgar St.

Cool Machine

with Colson Whitehead

In Person Poetry Free

Fri May 22 • 7:00pm • GCTC Studio • 1233 Wellington St. W,

House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with Brandi Bird, A.F. Moritz and Graeme Bezanson

In Person Fiction

Wed May 13 • 6:30pm • Parlour • 1319 Wellington Street West

Festival Book Club

Featuring Literary Agent Carly Watters, and authors Mai Nguyen and Kerry Clare

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Sun May 3 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Do the Right Thing

with Emily Austin, Y.M. Abdel-Magied and Sharon Bala

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Sun May 3 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

GGLA Spotlight: How to Survive a Bear Attack

With Claire Cameron

In Person

Sun May 3 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday's Menu for the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science Memoir

Sun May 3 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

All Our Uncertain Tomorrows

with Gillian Deacon and Mark Medley

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Sun May 3 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Novice of Holloway Hall

with Wayne Johnston

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science Memoir

Sun May 3 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Casino Shift

with Brian Goldman

In Person

Sun May 3 • 12:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday Afternoon in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat May 2 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Fear Itself

with Nick Cutter, Karma Brown and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Sat May 2 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Living History

with Tara Gereaux, Hélène Gaudy and Jennifer Chevalier

In Person

Sat May 2 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday's Menu for the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Sat May 2 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Brassy Bit of Aging Crumpet

with Mary Walsh

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat May 2 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Brain Never Sleeps

with Karen van Kampen

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science Memoir

Sat May 2 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Where the Earth Meets the Sky

with Louise K. Blight

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat May 2 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Artificially Intelligent

with David Eliot

In Person

Sat May 2 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday Morning in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Poetry

Fri May 1 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Poetry Cabaret

with Tareyn Johnson, Kaie Kellough and Jordan Abel

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Memoir

Fri May 1 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Pizza Before We Die

with Yasuko Thanh

In Person

Fri May 1 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Friday's Menu for the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Thu Apr 30 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sharing the Light

with Monique Gray Smith

In Person

Thu Apr 30 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Thursday's Menu for the Festival Cafe

In Person Fiction

Tue Apr 28 • 6:30pm • Ottawa Public Library Greenboro branch • 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr

CBC RADIO'S ALL IN A DAY BOOK CLUB

Zeina Sleiman's "Where The Jasmine Blooms"

Podcast Non-Fict Science Memoir Free

Sun Apr 26 • 12:00pm

Writers Festival Radio: Science Spotlight

with Louise K. Blight and David Eliot

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat Apr 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

When the Forest Breathes

with Suzanne Simard

Podcast Fiction History Free

Fri Apr 24 • 4:00pm

Writers Festival Radio S08E03

with Wayne Johnston and Ashraf Zaghal

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Memoir

Wed Apr 22 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

From Ragged Ass Road to Rideau Hall

with Whit Fraser

Podcast History Memoir Free

Mon Apr 20 • 11:00am

Writers Festival Radio S08E02

with Monique Gray Smith and Claire Cameron

Podcast Fiction History Free

Thu Apr 16 • 7:00pm

Writers Festival Radio S08E01

with Emily Austin and Jennifer Chevalier

In Person Streaming Poetry

Tue Mar 3 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian • 120 Lisgar St.

The Distance of a Shout

with Michael Ondaatje

In Person Streaming Free

Mon Jan 12 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Book Launch: We Inherit the Fire

Kagiso Lesego Molope

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History

Thu Nov 27 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian • 120 Lisgar Street

Against the Grain

with Terry O'Reilly

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir

Tue Nov 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Smiling Land

with Alan Doyle

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History Free

Wed Nov 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

We Breed Lions

with Rick Westhead

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Nov 12 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian • 120 Lisgar Street

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan

with Lyse Doucet

In Person Streaming Poetry

Mon Nov 10 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Poetry Cabaret

with Billy Ray Belcourt, Canisia Lubrin and katherena vermette

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 29 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian • 120 Lisgar St.

Final Orbit

with Chris Hadfield

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 26 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Human Rights in a Fractured World

with Alex Neve

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Sun Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

You Will Not Kill Our Imagination

with Saeed Teebi

In Person

Sun Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 26 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Now and Then

with Elaine Feeney and Eimear McBride

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 26 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Pick a Colour

with Souvankham Thammavongsa

In Person Streaming Fiction Poetry

Sun Oct 26 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

This Love

with Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindberg

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 26 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

An Accidental Villain

with Linden MacIntyre

In Person

Sun Oct 26 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday Morning in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science History

Sat Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Enshittification

with Cory Doctorow

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Sat Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Displaced

with Zeina Sleiman, Aaron Kreuter and Brian Thomas Isaac

In Person

Sat Oct 25 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat Oct 25 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

More than Human

with Kendra Coulter, Thomas Wharton and Sibylle Grimbert

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat Oct 25 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Science of Pets

with Jay Ingram

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir

Sat Oct 25 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

John Candy: A Life in Comedy

with Paul Myers

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat Oct 25 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Explorer’s Gene

with Alex Hutchinson

In Person

Sat Oct 25 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday Morning in the Festival Cafe

In Person Fiction Free

Sat Oct 25 • 9:30am • Suzy Q Donuts • 1015 Wellington Street West

Jane's Walk: Hintonburg and Wellington West

Guided Tour by Susan Johnston

In Person Non-Fict Memoir Music

Fri Oct 24 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Playlist

with Ivan Coyote

In Person Streaming Fiction

Fri Oct 24 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

One Life to Live

with Marc Bendavid, Susie Taylor and Shani Mootoo

In Person

Fri Oct 24 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Friday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 23 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

What Dreams May Come

with Sara Peters and Mona Awad

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Thu Oct 23 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

On the Ground

with Brian Stewart

In Person

Thu Oct 23 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Thursday in the Festival Cafe

Podcast Fiction

Thu Oct 23 • 12:00pm

S07E04

with Souvankham Thammavongsa and Elaine Feeney

In Person Streaming Fiction

Wed Oct 22 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Trial of Katterfelto

with Michael Redhill

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science History Memoir

Wed Oct 22 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

On Wholeness

with Quill Christie-Peters

In Person

Wed Oct 22 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Wednesday in the Festival Cafe

Podcast Politics Non-Fict History Memoir Free

Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm

S07E03

with Quill Christie-Peters and Linden MacIntyre

In Person Streaming Music Poetry

Tue Oct 14 • 6:30pm • Club Saw • 67 Nicholas St.

Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards

PLUS Margo LaPierre, Domina Eliahou, Stuart Ross and The Archibald Lampman Award

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Sun Sep 28 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

The Paris Express

with Emma Donoghue

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Sep 22 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance

with Stephanie Sinclair, David Moscrop, Carol Off and Elamin Abdelmahmoud

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Tue Sep 16 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

A Truce That Is Not Peace

with Miriam Toews

Podcast Fiction Free

Tue Sep 16 • 12:00pm

S07E02

with Emma Donoghue and Michael Redhill

In Person Streaming Fiction

Tue Sep 9 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Valentine in Montreal

with Arizona O’Neill and Heather O’Neill

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir Free

Thu Sep 4 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing

with Susan Aglukark

Podcast Fiction Music Poetry Free

Tue Sep 2 • 12:00pm

S07E01

with Arizona and Heather O'Neill and Stuart Ross

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Fri May 30 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave

Is a River Alive?

with Robert Macfarlane

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Fri May 16 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Baldwin, Styron, and Me

with Mélikah Abdelmoumen and Catherine Khordoc

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Fri May 16 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

52 Ways to Reconcile

with David A. Robertson

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu May 15 • 7:00pm • Nostalgica • 601 Cumberland St.

Happily Ever After

with Emma Theriault, Uzma Jalaluddin and Jackie Lau

In Person Streaming Fiction

Wed May 14 • 8:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave

Criminal Intent

with Sue Hincenbergs, Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti

In Person Streaming Fiction

Wed May 14 • 6:30pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave

Scene of the Crime

with Uzma Jalaluddin and Nita Prose

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun May 4 • 8:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Everything Everywhere

with Emily Austin, Matthew James Jones and Georgia Toews

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun May 4 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Long Story Short

with Bill Gaston, Catherine Bush and Andre Alexis

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Sun May 4 • 5:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Canada in the New World Order

Senator Peter M. Boehm and Lloyd Axworthy

In Person

Sun May 4 • 4:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday Evening in the Festival Cafe

In Person Poetry Free

Sun May 4 • 4:00pm • Maman Sculpture • at the National Gallery

Jane's Walk: Ottawa in Verse

Guided Tour by Susan Johnston

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun May 4 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

From Truth to Reconciliation

with Bruce McIvor and Rose LeMay

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun May 4 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

On Book Banning

with Ira Wells

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History

Sun May 4 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope

with Garry Gottfriedson and Victoria Handford

In Person

Sun May 4 • 12:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday Afternoon in the Festival Cafe

In Person Free

Sun May 4 • 6:00am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday Morning Traffic Disruptions

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat May 3 • 8:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The River Has Roots

with Amal El-Mohtar

In Person Streaming Fiction Politics History

Sat May 3 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Inheritance

with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Iryn Tushabe

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Sat May 3 • 5:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All

with Sandy Hudson

In Person

Sat May 3 • 4:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday Evening in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science History

Sat May 3 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

On Oil

with Don Gillmor

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science History Memoir

Sat May 3 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

A Billion Butterflies

with Dr. Jagadish Shukla

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science History

Sat May 3 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Ends of the Earth

with Neil Shubin

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat May 3 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Certainty Illusion

with Timothy Caulfield

In Person Fiction Free

Sat May 3 • 11:00am • Begins at Le Moulin de Province • York St. & Byward Market Sq

Jane's Walk: Plotlines & Pathways

Guided Tour by Susan Johnston

In Person

Sat May 3 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday Morning in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Politics History

Fri May 2 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Corporate Control

with Nora Loreto

In Person Streaming Fiction History

Fri May 2 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Past as Present

with Gwen Tuinman, Jack Wang and Linda McQuaig

In Person

Fri May 2 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Friday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu May 1 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Crime and Punishment

with Liann Zhang, Katie Tallo and Eliza Reid

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History

Thu May 1 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Theory of Water

with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

In Person

Thu May 1 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Thursday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction Free

Tue Apr 22 • 7:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Book Launch: I Remember Lights

with Ben Ladouceur

In Person Streaming Poetry Free

Wed Apr 16 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie.

In Person Fiction Science Free

Tue Apr 15 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden

with Ruthanna Emrys

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Free

Sat Apr 5 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Perfect Books Presents: Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre

with Mark Bourrie

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Wed Apr 2 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave

Sucker Punch

with Scaachi Koul

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science

Wed Mar 26 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Chasing Shadows

with Ronald J. Deibert

In Person Fiction Poetry Youth Free

Tue Mar 18 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Carleton University Presents: Spring Showcase

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Thu Mar 6 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

with Omar El Akkad

In Person Fiction Non-Fict Free

Tue Feb 4 • 7:30pm • Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Carleton University Presents: Munro Beattie Lecture

with Ann-Marie MacDonald

In Person Streaming Politics History

Fri Nov 8 • 7:00pm • Southminster • 15 Aylmer Ave

Reconciling History

with Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh

In Person Streaming Politics History

Sun Oct 27 • 8:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Political Pen

with Kagiso Lesego Molope, Jordan Abel and Saeed Teebi

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 27 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Allies and Enemies

with Tim Cook and Nahlah Ayed

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 27 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Shadows of Tyranny

with Ken McGoogan

In Person

Sun Oct 27 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Sunday in the Festival Cafe

In Person

Sat Oct 26 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Saturday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Poetry

Fri Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

The Poetry Cabaret

with Dina Del Bucchia, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Matthew Walsh and Shani Mootoo

In Person Streaming Fiction

Fri Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

One Life to Live

with David O’Meara, Jenny Haysom and Marissa Stapley

In Person

Fri Oct 25 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Friday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Fiction

Fri Oct 25 • 12:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Beast

with Richard Van Camp

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 24 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Remembered Tomorrows

with Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Nalo Hopkinson

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 24 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Imagined Histories

with Kate Heartfield and JM Miro

In Person

Thu Oct 24 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Thursday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Memoir

Wed Oct 23 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

North of Nowhere

with Marie Wilson

In Person

Wed Oct 23 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Wednesday in the Festival Cafe

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science History Memoir Free

Thu Oct 17 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

A Most Extraordinary Ride

with Marc Garneau

In Person Streaming Fiction

Wed Oct 9 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave.

In Winter I Get Up at Night

with Jane Urquhart

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir Free

Tue Oct 8 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Invisible Prisons

with Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen

In Person Streaming Poetry Free

Tue Oct 1 • 8:30pm • Club Saw • 67 Nicholas St.

Poetry Cabaret

with Amanda Earl, Christine McNair and Sandra Ridley

In Person Streaming Poetry Free

Tue Oct 1 • 6:30pm • Club Saw • 67 Nicholas St.

John Newlove Poetry Awards and the Ottawa Poets Laureate

with Nnadi Samuel and Princess Unlucky

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir Free

Mon Sep 30 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

The Knowing

with Tanya Talaga

In Person Streaming Non-Fict

Wed Sep 25 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave.

The Siege

with Ben Macintyre

In Person Streaming Fiction Free

Wed Sep 18 • 8:00pm • Fairmont Chateau Laurier • 1 Rideau St.

Proof

with Beverley McLachlin

In Person Streaming Fiction

Tue Sep 10 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

The Capital of Dreams

with Heather O’Neill

In Person

Sun May 5 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Festival Cafe: Sunday's Menu

In Person Streaming

Sun May 5 • 3:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Past Imperfect

with Anne Fleming, Helen Humphreys and Anne Michaels

In Person

Sat May 4 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Festival Cafe: Saturday's Menu

In Person

Fri May 3 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Festival Cafe: Friday's Menu

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Thu May 2 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Medicine Wheel for the Planet

with Dr. Jennifer Grenz

In Person

Thu May 2 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Foyer • 395 Wellington Street

Festival Cafe: Thursday's Menu

In Person Streaming Non-Fict

Thu Apr 18 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Out of Darkness

with Denise Chong

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science

Tue Apr 9 • 7:00pm • St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Health for All

With Jane Philpott

Podcast Poetry

Thu Mar 7 • 12:00pm

the book of smaller

with rob mclennan

Podcast Memoir

Thu Feb 29 • 12:30pm

Still, I Cannot Save You

with Kelly S. Thompson

Podcast Fiction

Thu Feb 29 • 12:00pm

Chrysalis

with Anuja Varghese

Podcast Fiction

Thu Feb 22 • 12:30pm

Pebble & Dove

with Amy Jones

Podcast Fiction

Thu Feb 22 • 12:00pm

Rick Mofina and Linwood Barclay

Rick Mofina and Linwood Barclay

Podcast Memoir

Thu Feb 15 • 12:30pm

Hollow Bamboo

with William Ping

Podcast Fiction

Thu Feb 15 • 12:00pm

The Fake

with Zoe Whittall

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sat Feb 10 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Blood: The science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation

Dr. Jen Gunter

In Person Streaming Memoir

Thu Dec 7 • 7:30pm • Chateau Laurier • 1 Rideau street

The Road Years

With Rick Mercer

In Person Streaming Non-Fict

Mon Dec 4 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 275 Elgin St.

How Canada Works

With Peter Mansbridge

In Person Streaming Non-Fict History

Tue Nov 28 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellingtion street

By the Ghost Light

with R.H. Thomson

In Person Memoir

Fri Nov 17 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington st.

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle

With Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Nov 13 • 6:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 275 Elgin St.

Books and Biryani: Re-Imagining Feminism

with Rafia Zakaria

In Person Streaming Fiction

Fri Nov 10 • 7:00pm • Chateau Laurier Ballroom • 1 Rideau St,

The Bittlemores

with Jann Arden

In Person

Sat Nov 4 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St,

Munro Beattie Lecture 2023-2024

Drew Hayden Taylor

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 29 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

21 Things We Need To Do After The Indian Act

with Bob Joseph

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 29 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The End and the Beginning

with Jenny Erpenbeck and David Bergen

In Person

Sun Oct 29 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Sunday's Menu

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 29 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Loves Labour

with Kate Heartfield, Eva Crocker and Emma Donoghue

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 29 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Family Matters

with Claudia Dey and Yasuko Thanh

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 29 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Tempest

with Donna Morrissey and Michael Crummey

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat Oct 28 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Another World

with Catherine Leroux, Sean Michaels and Mona Awad

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat Oct 28 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Every Happy Family

with Amy Stuart, Ashley Audrain and Karma Brown

In Person

Sat Oct 28 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Saturday's Menu

In Person Streaming Science

Sat Oct 28 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Message in a Bottle

with Holly Hogan

In Person Streaming Science

Sat Oct 28 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Deepest Map

with Laura Trethewey

In Person Streaming Science

Sat Oct 28 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Her Space, Her Time

with Shohini Ghose

In Person Streaming Science

Sat Oct 28 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

with Cat Bohannon

In Person Streaming Fiction

Fri Oct 27 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Makes You Stronger

with Nathan Whitlock, Amy Jones and Terry Fallis

In Person Streaming Memoir

Fri Oct 27 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Wine Witch on Fire

with Natalie MacLean

In Person Streaming Poetry

Fri Oct 27 • 5:30pm

Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards

with Rachel Small and Audrey Saparno

In Person

Fri Oct 27 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Friday's Menu

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 26 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Good Life

with Darrel J. McLeod, Zalika Reid-Benta and Elaine Feeney

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 26 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Moon of the Turning Leaves

with Waubgeshig Rice

In Person

Thu Oct 26 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Thursday's Menu

In Person Streaming Fiction

Wed Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Home On Native Land

with Alicia Elliott, Katherena Vermette and Cherie Dimaline

In Person Streaming Memoir

Wed Oct 25 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Becoming a Matriarch

with Helen Knott

In Person

Wed Oct 25 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Wednesday's Menu

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 18 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada • 380 Sussex Drive

Between the Pages An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

Eleanor Catton, Kevin Chong, Dionne Irving, CS Richardson

In Person Streaming Fiction

Mon Oct 16 • 7:00pm • St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

The Bone Hacker

with Kathy Reichs

In Person Fiction Non-Fict

Wed Oct 11 • 7:00pm • Meridian Theatres • 101 Centrepointe Drive

City of Ottawa Book Awards / Prix du Livre D’Ottawa

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Tue Oct 10 • 7:30pm • St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Seeking Social Democracy

A Conversation with Ed Broadbent

In Person Streaming Fiction

Tue Oct 3 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

with Naomi Klein

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Mon Oct 2 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington street

Unbroken

with Angela Sterritt

In Person Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Thu Sep 28 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

with Michelle Good

In Person Streaming Non-Fict

Tue Sep 12 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

Book Launch: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

With Charlotte Gray

In Person Streaming Poetry

Tue May 16 • 7:00pm • Club Saw • 67 Nicholas Street

Celebrating Arc 100

With Frances Boyle, Sadiqa de Meijer, Katia Grubisic, rob mclennan and Brandon Wint

In Person Fiction

Sat May 13 • 7:30pm • St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Yellowface

with R.F. Kuang

In Person Fiction

Sat May 13 • 6:00pm • Perfect Books • 258A Elgin Street

Perfect Books

Presents Kai Thomas

In Person Fiction

Sun May 7 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

No Place Like Home

Michelle Porter, Saeed Teebi and Lisa Bird-Wilson

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Sun May 7 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The End of This World

with Angele Alook, Bronwen Tucker and David Gray-Donald

In Person Non-Fict History

Sun May 7 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity

with Gerald McMaster and Nina Vincent

In Person

Sun May 7 • 3:00pm

Festival Cafe: Sunday's Menu

In Person Non-Fict Memoir

Sun May 7 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Ordinary Notes

with Christina Sharpe

In Person Non-Fict

Sun May 7 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Outsider

with Brett Popplewell

In Person Fiction

Sat May 6 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

What Tomorrow Brings

with Thomas Wharton and Jaroslav Kalfar

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat May 6 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

On the Ravine

with Vincent Lam

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat May 6 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Fire Weather

with John Vaillant

In Person Non-Fict Science History

Sat May 6 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Patriarchs

with Angela Saini

In Person

Sat May 6 • 3:00pm

Festival Cafe: Saturday's Menu

In Person Fiction

Sat May 6 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Past Imperfect

with Janika Oza and Paul Harding

In Person Non-Fict

Sat May 6 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

How Big Things Get Done

with Dan Gardner

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat May 6 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Quantum Physics Made Me Do It

with Jeremie Harris

In Person Non-Fict

Fri May 5 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Park Cruising

with Marcus McCann

In Person Non-Fict

Fri May 5 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The New Masculinity

with Alex Manley

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Fri May 5 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

On Class

with Deborah Dundas

In Person

Fri May 5 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Friday's Menu

In Person Fiction

Thu May 4 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Until We Are Lost

with Priya Guns, Sofia Mostaghimi and Lindsay Wong

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Thu May 4 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

When The Convoy Came to Town

With Paul Wells and Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah

In Person

Thu May 4 • 5:00pm

Festival Cafe: Thursday's Menu

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Apr 19 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Between Good and Evil

with Mellissa Fung

In Person Fiction Poetry Youth

Sat Apr 15 • 3:00pm • OPL Cumberland Branch • 1599 Tenth Line

Climate Feelings: A Writing Workshop for Teens

With Alexis Shotwell

In Person Streaming Fiction

Thu Apr 13 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Book Launch: Snow Road Station

With Elizabeth Hay

In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science

Mon Mar 20 • 7:00pm • St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West

Book Launch: BLEED 

With Tracey Lindeman

In Person Fiction

Sat Feb 25 • 7:01pm • LIVE STREAM • Link will be sent

LIVESTREAM ONLY: A World of Curiosities

with Louise Penny 

In Person Fiction

Sat Feb 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

A World of Curiosities

with Louise Penny

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 16 • 12:01pm

6. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Jenalee Kluttz

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 16 • 12:00pm

5. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Michelle Lam

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 9 • 12:01pm

4. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Candy Jones

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 9 • 12:00pm

3. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Maria Vamvalis

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 2 • 12:01pm

2. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Alysha Farrell

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Thu Feb 2 • 12:00pm

1. Teaching in the Anthropocene

with Stan Wilson

In Person Non-Fict

Sat Jan 28 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion Chalmers Center • 355 Cooper St,

POSTPONED: Munro Beattie Lecture

with Waubgeshig Rice

In Person Streaming Non-Fict

Mon Jan 16 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington Street

Empathy: Turning Compassion into Action

with David Johnston

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Thu Dec 15 • 1:00pm

The Pursuit of Urban Utopias

with John Lorinc

Podcast Poetry

Thu Dec 15 • 12:00pm

MONUMENT

with Manahil Bandukwala

In Person Fiction

Mon Dec 12 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Last Chairlift

With John Irving

Podcast Non-Fict History

Fri Dec 9 • 1:00pm

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers

with Tim Cook

Podcast Fiction

Fri Dec 9 • 12:00pm

Almost Visible

with Michelle Sinclair

Podcast Fiction

Thu Dec 1 • 1:00pm

The Opportunist

with Elyse Friedman

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Thu Dec 1 • 12:10pm

The Petroleum Papers

with Geoff Dembicki

Podcast Memoir

Thu Nov 24 • 12:00pm

Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood

with Wayne Johnston

In Person Memoir

Sat Nov 19 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

All Roads Home

With Bryan Trottier

Podcast Fiction

Thu Nov 17 • 12:00pm

Try Not to Be Strange

with Michael Hingston

In Person Streaming Fiction

Mon Nov 14 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Carleton Presents: No New Land?

With Tina Athaide, Tasneem Jamal, and Hafsa Zayyan

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Nov 9 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

True Reconciliation

with Jody Wilson-Raybould

Podcast Fiction

Wed Nov 9 • 2:15pm

Orange for the Sunsets

With Tina Athaide

Podcast Fiction

Wed Nov 9 • 12:00pm

Where The Air Is Sweet

With Tasneem Jamal

In Person Fiction

Tue Nov 8 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

A Heart Full of Headstones

With Ian Rankin

Podcast Fiction

Tue Nov 8 • 12:00pm

We Are All Birds of Uganda

With Hafsa Zayyan

Podcast Non-Fict

Thu Nov 3 • 12:00pm

The Myth of Normal

with Dr. Gabor Maté

In Person Memoir

Wed Oct 26 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Son of Elsewhere

with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Oct 26 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Abolitionist Intimacies

with El Jones

In Person History Memoir

Wed Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Kiss the Red Stairs

with Marsha Lederman

In Person

Wed Oct 26 • 5:00pm

Wednesday's Festival Café Menu

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Fiction

Tue Oct 25 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Belonging

with Danny Ramadan and Billy-Ray Belcourt

In Person Fiction

Tue Oct 25 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Homecoming

with Camille Fouillard and David A Robertson

In Person Fiction

Tue Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Is Truth Stranger?

with Colin McAdam and Graeme Macrae Burnet

In Person

Tue Oct 25 • 5:00pm

Tuesday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Mon Oct 24 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Surviving Apocalyptic Economics

with Douglas Rushkoff, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

In Person Fiction

Mon Oct 24 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Fayne: One on One

with Ann-Marie MacDonald

In Person

Mon Oct 24 • 5:00pm

Monday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Sun Oct 23 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Culture of Conspiracy

with Sarah Kendzior

In Person Fiction

Sun Oct 23 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Running in the Family

with Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Tanis Rideout and Tsering Yangzom Lama

In Person

Sun Oct 23 • 5:00pm

Sunday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Our apologies but there has been a change to the menu tonight!

In Person Poetry

Sun Oct 23 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Poetry Cabaret

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Shani Mootoo, Phoebe Wang, and Michael Crummey

In Person Fiction

Sun Oct 23 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The River Twice

with John Bemrose

In Person Non-Fict Memoir

Sun Oct 23 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

My Road from Damascus

with Jamal Saeed

In Person

Sun Oct 23 • 1:00pm

Sunday Snacks at the Festival Café

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 22 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Truth and Consequences

with Leah Mol and Fawn Parker

In Person Fiction History

Sat Oct 22 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Past Imperfect

with Suzette Mayr

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 22 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Ties That Bind

with Katherine Alexandra Harvey and Lisa Moore

In Person

Sat Oct 22 • 5:00pm

Saturday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 22 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Mothers of Invention

With Shyam Selvadurai

In Person Science

Sat Oct 22 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

with Gaia Vince

In Person Science

Sat Oct 22 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Civilization and the Stars

with Jo Marchant

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat Oct 22 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

An Autobiography of Our Galaxy 

with Moiya McTier

In Person

Sat Oct 22 • 11:30am

Saturday Snacks at the Festival Café

In Person Fiction

Fri Oct 21 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Strike Back The Empires

with JM Miro and RF Kuang

In Person Fiction

Fri Oct 21 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Scene of the Crime

with Joy Fielding and Adrian McKinty

In Person

Fri Oct 21 • 5:00pm

Friday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Streaming Poetry

Thu Oct 20 • 7:00pm

Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards

Richard-Yves Sitoski and Subrahj Singh

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 19 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Young Mungo

with Douglas Stuart

In Person Non-Fict

Wed Oct 19 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Becoming Kin

with Patty Krawec

In Person

Wed Oct 19 • 5:00pm

Wednesday’s Menu at the Festival Café

Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet

In Person Poetry

Sat Oct 15 • 5:00pm • Manx • 370 Elgin Street

Plan 99 presents

Mike Garry & Ellen Chang-Richardson

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 12 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada • 380 Sussex Drive

Between the Pages An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

with Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr and past winner Ian Williams

Podcast Poetry

Thu Oct 6 • 12:00pm

Dream of Me as Water

with David Ly

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat Oct 1 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

SOLD OUT: The Myth of Normal

with Gabor Mate

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sat Oct 1 • 6:59pm • LIVESTREAM • YOUTUBE

LIVESTREAM: The Myth of Normal

with Gabor Mate

In Person Streaming Fiction

Sat Oct 1 • 3:00pm

Book Launch: The Cold Edge of Heaven

with Whit Fraser

Podcast Fiction

Thu Sep 29 • 12:00pm

Haven

with Emma Donoghue 

In Person Poetry

Sat Sep 24 • 5:00pm • The Manx Pub • 370 Elgin St

Plan 99 Presents

Thomas Lynch and Jean Van Loon

In Person Fiction

Mon Sep 19 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

When We Lost Our Heads

With Heather O'Neill

In Person Non-Fict Memoir

Fri Sep 9 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Making Love with the Land

with Joshua Whitehead

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jul 12 • 12:00pm

Ymir

with Rich Larson

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Tue Jul 5 • 12:01pm

And a Dog Called Fig

with Helen Humphreys

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jul 5 • 12:00pm

Poison Lilies

with Katie Tallo

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Tue Jun 28 • 12:01pm

The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi

with Keith Seifert

Podcast Poetry

Tue Jun 28 • 12:00pm

But the sun

with Conyer Clayton

In Person Non-Fict Memoir

Sun Jun 26 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Run Towards the Danger

with Sarah Polley

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jun 21 • 12:01pm

A Hero of Our Time

with Naben Ruthnum

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jun 21 • 12:00pm

I Am Billy the Kid

with Michael Blouin

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jun 14 • 12:01pm

The Embroidered Book

with Kate Heartfield

Podcast Fiction

Tue Jun 14 • 12:00pm

Night in the World

with Sharon English

Podcast Fiction Poetry

Tue Jun 7 • 12:01pm

Poguemahone

with Patrick McCabe

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir Poetry

Tue Jun 7 • 12:00pm

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

with Stuart Ross

Podcast Fiction Youth

Tue May 31 • 12:01pm

Jamilah at the End of the World

with Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Podcast Fiction History

Tue May 31 • 12:00pm

Looking for Jane

with Heather Marshall

Podcast Fiction

Tue May 24 • 12:01pm

The Artist and the Assassin

with Mark Frutkin

Podcast Fiction

Tue May 24 • 12:00pm

Intimacies

with Katie Kitamura

Recurring Youth

Mon May 23 • 10:30am • LeBreton Flats Park • Canadian War Museum

Mindfullness Workshops

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Wed May 18 • 7:00pm

Take Your Breath Away

With Linwood Barclay

Podcast Poetry

Tue May 17 • 12:01pm

Nuclear Family

with Jean van Loon

Podcast Fiction

Tue May 17 • 12:00pm

Animal Person

with Alexander MacLeod

In Person Politics Non-Fict Memoir

Tue May 10 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Still Hopeful

with Maude Barlow

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Tue May 10 • 12:01pm

Easy Beauty

with Chloe Cooper Jones

Podcast Non-Fict History

Tue May 10 • 12:00pm

The Nutmeg's Curse

with Amitav Ghosh

Live Online Streaming History

Tue May 3 • 7:00pm

Have You Eaten Yet?

With Cheuk Kwan

Podcast Politics Non-Fict Science

Tue May 3 • 12:01pm

This Is Assisted Dying

with Dr. Stefanie Green

Podcast Fiction

Tue May 3 • 12:00pm

The Fell

With Sarah Moss

In Person Streaming Music Poetry

Fri Apr 29 • 8:00pm • Online Event • Online

Arc Poetry Magazine Spring Launch: Tribute to Diana Brebner

With John Barton, Dessa Bayrock, Anita Lahey, Sneha Madhavan-Reese and music by Ensemble Allure

Podcast

Wed Apr 27 • 12:00pm

Look Back at Season 3

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict Science

Tue Apr 26 • 7:00pm

The Power of Teamwork

With Dr. Brian Goldman

Podcast

Tue Apr 26 • 12:01pm

Look Back at Season 2

Podcast

Tue Apr 26 • 12:00pm

Look Back at Season 1

Live Online Streaming Fiction Politics Non-Fict Science History Memoir Poetry

Tue Apr 19 • 7:00pm

Spotlight on our Virtual Seasons: Keeping Connected While Maintaining our Distance

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The Next Civil War

With Stephen Marche

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict History

Tue Mar 29 • 8:00pm

What Would Freedom Look Like?

With Rinaldo Walcott, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and Mona Eltahawy

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Sun Mar 27 • 7:00pm

Books and Biryani: Zarqa Nawaz and the Comedy of Errors

Zarqa Nawaz

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Mar 22 • 7:00pm

Who is Served and What is Protected?

With Desmond Cole and Brandi Morin

Live Online Streaming Youth

Tue Dec 14 • 1:00pm

Seen and Heard: Children’s Art and Activism with Marah Gubar

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

Live Online Streaming Youth

Tue Dec 14 • 12:30pm

The Healing Power of Stories: A Muslim View with Rukhsana Khan

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

Live Online Streaming Youth

Tue Dec 14 • 12:00pm

Changing the World One Story at a Time with Natasha Deen

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

In Person Memoir

Sun Dec 5 • 7:00pm

Talking to Canadians

with Rick Mercer

Live Online Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm

Writing and Activism: Words in Action

with Monia Mazigh

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Nov 29 • 7:30pm

What Strange Paradise

with Omar El Akkad

Podcast Memoir

Fri Nov 26 • 12:01pm

The Weight of Sand

with Edith Blais

Podcast Fiction

Fri Nov 26 • 12:00pm

The Spirits Up

with Todd Babiak 

Podcast Poetry

Fri Nov 19 • 12:01pm

Finish this Sentence

with Leslie Roach

Podcast Poetry

Fri Nov 19 • 12:00pm

It Doesn't Matter What We Meant

with Rob Winger

Live Online Streaming Fiction Poetry

Mon Nov 15 • 7:30pm

Exile: Celebrating 50 Years in Publishing

with Barry Callaghan, Michael Callaghan, Darlene Madott, Katie Zdybel and George Elliott Clarke

Podcast Memoir

Fri Nov 12 • 12:00pm

Permanent Astonishment

with Tomson Highway

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Wed Nov 10 • 7:30pm

Launch of ARC 96

Featuring: Junie Désil, Simone Dalton and Shery Alexander Heinis

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict

Tue Nov 9 • 7:30pm

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

with Drew Hayden Taylor, Norma Dunning and Darrel J. McLeod

Podcast Poetry

Fri Nov 5 • 12:00pm

Umbilical Cord

with Hasan Namir

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Thu Nov 4 • 7:30pm

Book Launch: Best Canadian Poetry 2021

With Anita Lahey, Souvankham Thammavongsa and many more!

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 29 • 12:00pm

A Time Outside This Time

with Amitava Kumar

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict

Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm

My Best Mistake

with Terry O’Reilly

Live Online Streaming Memoir

Tue Oct 26 • 7:00pm

Book Launch: My Stories, My Times, Volume 2

with The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Mon Oct 25 • 7:30pm

BYWORDS JOHN NEWLOVE AWARDS

with Megan Misztal and John Ian

Podcast Non-Fict

Fri Oct 22 • 12:00pm

Nice White Ladies

with Jessie Daniels

Live Online Streaming Fiction Non-Fict Poetry

Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm

THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Tue Oct 19 • 7:30pm

BOOK LAUNCH: Hunting by Stars

with Cherie Dimaline

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm

The Class

with Chris Hedges

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm

Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas

with Omar Mouallem

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Fri Oct 15 • 12:01pm

On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years

with Elaine Dewar

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 15 • 12:00pm

What Storm, What Thunder

with Myriam J.A. Chancy

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 14 • 7:30pm

Em

with Kim Thuy

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Tue Oct 12 • 7:30pm

Not a Happy Family

with Shari Lapena

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 8 • 12:01pm

The Book of Form and Emptiness

with Ruth Ozeki

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 8 • 12:00pm

The Listeners

with Jordan Tannahill

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm

An Embarrassment of Critch’s

with Mark Critch

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir

Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm

BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record

with Peter Mansbridge 

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm

Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future

with Esi Edugyan

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 1 • 12:01pm

The Death of Francis Bacon

with Max Porter

Podcast Poetry

Fri Oct 1 • 12:00pm

Ripping down half the trees

with Evan J

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm

Return

with Kamal Al-Solaylee

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm

The Strangers

with Katherena Vermette

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Sep 27 • 7:30pm

All's Well

with Mona Awad

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Sun Sep 26 • 5:30pm

Book Launch: Masses on Radar

by David O’Meara

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 24 • 12:01pm

Tenderness

with Alison MacLeod

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 24 • 12:00pm

The Spectacular

with Zoe Whittall

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict Memoir

Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm

"Indian" in the Cabinet

with Jody Wilson Raybould

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm

The Mystery of Right and Wrong

with Wayne Johnston

Live Online Streaming History Memoir

Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm

Unreconciled

with Jesse Wente

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 17 • 12:01pm

Undersong

with Kathleen Winter

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 17 • 12:00pm

The Retreat

with Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm

August into Winter

with Guy Vanderhaeghe

Live Online Streaming Memoir

Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm

My Own Blood

with Ashley Bristowe

Podcast Memoir

Fri Sep 10 • 12:01pm

Life in the City of Dirty Water

with Clayton Thomas-Muller

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 10 • 12:00pm

The Last Exiles

with Ann Shin

Podcast Memoir

Fri Sep 3 • 12:01pm

Where Beauty Survived

with George Elliott Clarke

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Fri Sep 3 • 12:00pm

How to Be Animal

with Melanie Challenger

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm

Operation Angus

with Terry Fallis

Podcast Fiction

Fri Aug 27 • 12:01pm

Satellite Love

with Genki Ferguson

Podcast Fiction

Fri Aug 27 • 12:00pm

The Snow Line

with Tessa McWatt

Podcast Non-Fict History Memoir

Fri Aug 20 • 12:01pm

Better Not Bitter

with Yusef Salaam

Podcast History Memoir Poetry

Fri Aug 20 • 12:00pm

NISHGA

with Jordan Abel

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri Jun 25 • 12:00pm

The Traitor's Blade

with Kevin Sands

Live Online Streaming Fiction Non-Fict History Poetry

Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm

Gather

with Richard Van Camp

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict Science

Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm

The Menopause Manifesto

With Dr. Jen Gunter

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Fri Jun 18 • 12:01pm

The Bright Side

with Cathrin Bradbury

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Fri Jun 18 • 12:00pm

Likeness

with David Macfarlane

Live Online Streaming Fiction History Poetry

Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm

The Life and Times of Robbie Burns

with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay

Podcast Fiction

Fri Jun 11 • 12:01pm

What You Are

with M.G. Vassanji

Podcast Non-Fict Science

Fri Jun 11 • 12:00pm

Change: How to Make Big Things Happen

with Damon Centola

Podcast Fiction History Youth

Fri Jun 4 • 12:01pm

A Girl Called Echo

with Katherena Vermette

Podcast Poetry

Fri Jun 4 • 12:00pm

Because the Sun

with Sarah Burgoyne

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon May 31 • 7:00pm

Mayflies

with Andrew O’Hagan

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict

Thu May 27 • 7:00pm

One Page: The Window Seat

with Aminatta Forna 

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Wed May 26 • 7:35pm

Sufferance

with Thomas King

Live Online Streaming Memoir

Tue May 25 • 7:30pm

All the Rage

with Brad Fraser

Podcast Fiction History

Fri May 21 • 12:01pm

China

with Edward Rutherfurd

Podcast Fiction

Fri May 21 • 12:00pm

The Good Father

with Wayne Grady

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu May 20 • 7:00pm

One Page: Monkey Boy

with Francisco Goldman

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Mon May 17 • 8:00pm

The Shadow List

with Jen Sookfong Lee

Podcast Fiction

Fri May 14 • 12:01pm

Hummingbird Salamander

with Jeff VanderMeer

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri May 14 • 12:00pm

Bruised

with Tanya Boteju

Live Online Streaming Fiction Non-Fict Memoir Poetry

Thu May 13 • 7:00pm

One Page: Goodbye, Again

with Jonny Sun

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon May 10 • 7:30pm

Find You First

with Linwood Barclay

Podcast Fiction

Fri May 7 • 12:01pm

Why Birds Sing

with Nina Berkhout

Podcast Non-Fict History

Fri May 7 • 12:00pm

Elizabeth & Margaret

with Andrew Morton

Podcast Non-Fict Science History

Fri Apr 30 • 12:01pm

On Time and Water

with Andri Snaer Magnason 

Podcast Memoir

Fri Apr 30 • 12:00pm

The Girl from Dream City

with Linda Leith

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm

Take Back the Fight

with Nora Loreto

Podcast Fiction

Fri Apr 23 • 12:01pm

A Desolation Called Peace

with Arkady Martine

Podcast Poetry

Fri Apr 23 • 12:00pm

Mythical Man

with David Ly

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm

One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea

with Paul Theroux

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science

Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

with Seth Klein

Podcast Fiction

Fri Apr 16 • 12:00pm

Hana Khan Carries On

with Uzma Jalaluddin

Live Online Streaming Memoir

Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm

One Page: The Soul of a Woman

with Isabel Allende

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science

Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The New Climate War

with Michael E. Mann

Podcast Fiction

Fri Apr 9 • 12:00pm

Tainna: The Unseen Ones

with Norma Dunning

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm

One Page: Klara and the Sun

with Kazuo Ishiguro

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict History

Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

With Darrel J. McLeod

Podcast Non-Fict History

Fri Mar 26 • 12:01pm

Four Lost Cities

with Annalee Newitz

Podcast Fiction

Fri Mar 26 • 12:00pm

The Relatives

with Camilla Gibb

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm

One Page: Foregone

with Russell Banks

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm

Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders

with André Picard

Podcast Politics Non-Fict

Fri Mar 19 • 12:01pm

The Deficit Myth

with Stephanie Kelton

Podcast Fiction

Fri Mar 19 • 12:00pm

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

with Gary Barwin

Live Online Streaming Fiction Poetry

Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm

If I Tell You The Truth

with Jasmin Kaur

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm

Return of the Trickster

with Eden Robinson

Podcast Fiction

Fri Mar 12 • 12:01pm

Gutter Child

with Jael Richardson

Podcast Fiction

Fri Mar 12 • 12:00pm

A Town Called Solace

with Mary Lawson

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm

White Feminism

with Koa Beck

Podcast Fiction History

Fri Mar 5 • 12:01pm

Speak, Silence

with Kim Echlin

Podcast Fiction

Fri Mar 5 • 12:00pm

Blaze Island

with Catherine Bush

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm

One Page: This Strange and Violent World

with Elif Shafak

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm

The New Age of Empire

with Kehinde Andrews

Podcast Fiction

Fri Feb 26 • 12:01pm

The Centaur’s Wife

with Amanda Leduc

Podcast Fiction

Fri Feb 26 • 12:00pm

The Push

with Ashley Audrain

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm

Can You Hear Me Now?

with Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm

On Property

with Rinaldo Walcott

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict

Thu Dec 10 • 7:00pm

One Page: Wow No Thank You

Samantha Irby

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Fri Dec 4 • 12:00pm

Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life, The Art of Is

with Stephen Nachmanovitch

Live Online Streaming Memoir

Thu Dec 3 • 7:00pm

One Page: Close to the Bone

with Lisa Ray and Deepa Mehta

Podcast Non-Fict Science Youth

Tue Dec 1 • 12:00pm

The Challenges Facing Canada in Protecting the Well Being of Children

Featuring Kim Hellemans and Jane Bertrand

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Mon Nov 30 • 7:30pm

Creative Writing For Teens: Using Texts and Social Media for Inspiration

with Lindsay Wong

Podcast Politics Non-Fict Youth

Fri Nov 27 • 12:30pm

Student Activism and the Climate Crisis

Featuring Vidya Shah and Alexis Benns

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri Nov 27 • 12:00pm

War At The Snow White Motel

with Tim Wynne-Jones

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Nov 26 • 9:00pm

One Page: There There

With Tommy Orange and Waubgeshig Rice

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Nov 26 • 12:00pm

One Page: The Kingdom

Jo Nesbo

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Tue Nov 24 • 12:00pm

Education and Social Mobility

with Andy Hargreaves

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Mon Nov 23 • 7:30pm

The Black Kids

with Christina Hammonds Reed

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction Youth

Sun Nov 22 • 2:00pm

Republic of Childhood: The Casket of Time

With Andri Snaer Magnason

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri Nov 20 • 12:00pm

Writing for Young Readers

Featuring Kenneth Oppel and Deborah Ellis

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Nov 19 • 7:00pm

One Page: Deacon King Kong

with James McBride and Omar El Akkad

Podcast Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Tue Nov 17 • 12:00pm

Yes, It's Systemic

Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Mon Nov 16 • 7:30pm

Masterclass: Connecting Plot and Character

with Kenneth Oppel

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Music

Sun Nov 15 • 2:00pm

She Come By It Natural

with Sarah Smarsh

Podcast Fiction

Fri Nov 13 • 12:00pm

The Ever-Present Past

featuring Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Xerar Murphy

Podcast Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Nov 11 • 12:00pm

Fighting for Peace

Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Tue Nov 10 • 7:30pm

VerseFest Presents:

with Angye Gaona, Irfan Ali and stephanie roberts

Pre-Recorded Streaming Poetry

Sun Nov 8 • 2:00pm

As Far As You Know

with A.F. Moritz

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Fri Nov 6 • 12:00pm

A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:

Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Mon Nov 2 • 7:30pm

Masterclass: Discovering your Voice

with Kagiso Lesego Molope

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Science

Sun Nov 1 • 2:00pm

Entangled Life

with Merlin Sheldrake

Podcast Poetry

Fri Oct 30 • 12:00pm

Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press

Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas

Podcast Memoir Poetry

Tue Oct 27 • 12:00pm

Craft, Content and Process

Featuring andrea bennett and John Elizabeth Stintzi

Live Online Streaming Music Poetry

Mon Oct 26 • 7:30pm

Bywords 2020 John Newlove Poetry Award

with David Groulx

Pre-Recorded Streaming Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Sun Oct 25 • 4:00pm

The Education of an Idealist

with Samantha Power

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Science Poetry

Sun Oct 25 • 2:00pm

The Lost Spells

with Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 23 • 12:30pm

Imagining Worlds (part 2)

Featuring Lauren Beukes and MR Carey

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 23 • 12:00pm

Imagining Worlds (part 1)

Featuring David A. Robertson and Derek Kunsken

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 22 • 7:30pm

National Book Launch: Love After the End

With Joshua Whitehead, jaye simpson, Nazbah Tom and Adam Garnet Jones

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Tue Oct 20 • 12:00pm

Letting Go of Anxiety

with Tara Henley

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Oct 19 • 7:30pm

Healing

with Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson

Live Online Streaming Fiction Memoir Music Poetry

Sun Oct 18 • 8:00pm

Musical Language

with Martha Baillie, Stuart Ross, and Maria Reva

Pre-Recorded Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Oct 18 • 2:00pm

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

with Margaret MacMillan

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 16 • 12:00pm

Crime and Punishment

Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Thu Oct 15 • 12:00pm

One Page: Actress

With Anne Enright

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm

Ending Inequality

with Thomas Philippon

Podcast Fiction

Tue Oct 13 • 12:20pm

Lies That Tell Us Truth

Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Memoir

Sun Oct 11 • 4:00pm

One on One

With Pico Iyer

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 11 • 2:00pm

Jack

with Marilynne Robinson

Live Online Streaming Memoir Music

Sat Oct 10 • 12:00pm

One Good Reason to Celebrate Mental Health Day

With Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 9 • 12:00pm

Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth

Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Thu Oct 8 • 12:00pm

One Page: How to Fly

with Barbara Kingsolver

Pre-Recorded Streaming Memoir Youth

Tue Oct 6 • 7:30pm

High School

with Tegan and Sara

Podcast Fiction

Tue Oct 6 • 12:00pm

Agency and Consent

Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm

Missing from the Village

with Justin Ling

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction

Sun Oct 4 • 2:00pm

A Song for the Dark Times

with Ian Rankin

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 2 • 12:00pm

The Art of the Short Story

with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa

Podcast Fiction History

Wed Sep 30 • 12:00pm

Orange Shirt Day

with Michelle Good

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir

Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm

Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos

with Steven Heighton

Pre-Recorded Streaming Politics Non-Fict Science

Sun Sep 27 • 2:00pm

Commanding Hope

with Thomas Homer-Dixon

Podcast Non-Fict Science Memoir

Fri Sep 25 • 12:00pm

Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain

Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman

Live Online Streaming Poetry

Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm

National Launch for Burning Sugar

with Cicely Belle Blain

Podcast Fiction History

Tue Sep 22 • 12:00pm

Confronting History

with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm

Inheritance

with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction History

Sun Sep 20 • 2:00pm

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Podcast Non-Fict History Memoir

Fri Sep 18 • 12:00pm

Marathon of Hope

with Darrell Fox

Podcast Memoir

Tue Sep 15 • 12:00pm

Living with Dying Part Two

with Sheree Fitch and Lorna Crozier

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm

The World as We Know It

with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict History

Sun Sep 13 • 2:00pm

Magdalena: River of Dreams

with Wade Davis

Podcast Memoir

Fri Sep 11 • 12:00pm

Living with Dying Part One

with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey

Live Online Streaming Non-Fict Science

Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm

Nerve

with Eva Holland

Pre-Recorded Streaming Politics Non-Fict History

Sun Sep 6 • 4:00pm

Twilight of Democracy

with Anne Applebaum

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction

Sun Sep 6 • 2:00pm

The Glass Hotel

with Emily St. John Mandel

Podcast Fiction History

Fri Sep 4 • 12:40pm

Living History

With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm

The Silver Arrow

with Lev Grossman

Pre-Recorded Streaming Fiction

Sun Aug 30 • 2:00pm

Indians on Vacation

with Thomas King

Podcast Memoir

Fri Aug 28 • 11:08am

Surviving and Thriving

With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm

The Pull of the Stars

With Emma Donoghue

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Science History

Sun Aug 23 • 4:00pm

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

with Gaia Vince

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir

Sun Aug 23 • 2:00pm

A History of My Brief Body

with Billy-Ray Belcourt

Podcast Fiction

Fri Aug 21 • 12:00pm

Fear itself

with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones

Live Online Streaming Fiction

Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm

Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep

with Frances Itani

Podcast

Tue Aug 11 • 2:00pm

The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast Announced

Pre-Recorded Streaming Non-Fict Science

Thu Jun 4 • 1:00pm • Online Event • Online Event

Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics

With Dr. David Waltner-Toews

Live Online Streaming Politics Non-Fict

Tue May 26 • 1:00pm • Online event • 000 Zoom

Ending Poverty

With Hugh Segal

In Person Fiction Poetry

Tue May 5 • 5:00pm

Day Six

Wish you were here.

In Person Fiction Non-Fict Science

Mon May 4 • 5:00pm

Day Five

Wish you were here.

In Person Fiction Non-Fict

Sun May 3 • 10:00am

Day Four

Wish you were here.

In Person Fiction Politics Non-Fict History Music Poetry

Sat May 2 • 10:00am

Day Three

Wish you were here.

In Person Fiction Non-Fict

Fri May 1 • 5:00pm

Day Two

Wish you were here

In Person Fiction Non-Fict Poetry

Thu Apr 30 • 5:00pm

Day One

Wish you were here

In Person

Thu Apr 30 • 8:00am

2020 SPRING EDITION CANCELLED

In Person Poetry

Sat Apr 18 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub • 370 Elgin St.

Postponed: House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with Matthew Henderson, John Elizabeth Stintzi and AF Moritz

In Person Non-Fict History

Thu Apr 16 • 7:00pm • Knox Church • 120 Lisgar St.

POSTPONED: Magdalena: River of Dreams

with Wade Davis

In Person Fiction Non-Fict

Sat Mar 21 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

POSTPONED: 2020 Munro Beattie lecture

With Seth

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Wed Mar 11 • 7:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde

with Julie S. Lalonde

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Wed Feb 26 • 7:00pm • Fourth Stage, NAC • 1 Elgin St.

From the Ashes: In Conversation

with Jesse Thistle

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Tue Feb 11 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington st.

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

with Desmond Cole

In Person Non-Fict Science

Thu Jan 30 • 7:00pm • Knox Church • 120 Lisgar St.

Successful Aging

with Daniel Levitin

In Person Fiction

Wed Jan 29 • 6:00pm • Jackson Cafe at the Ottawa Art Gallery • 10 Daly Avenue

Beyond Survival Reading Group Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)

In Person Non-Fict

Wed Dec 11 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada? - Alfred Pellan Room • 395 Wellington Street

A Matter of Facts

With Laura A. Millar

In Person Non-Fict

Tue Dec 3 • 6:30pm • Jackson Cafe at the Ottawa Art Gallery • 10 Daly Ave.

O Canada Reading Group

In Person Youth

Fri Nov 22 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Making the Margins Visible and Accessible

Panel discussion with Dr. Maya Shetreat, Fikile Nxumalo and Claudia Mitchell

In Person Youth

Fri Nov 22 • 1:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring work of Woodroffe HS students and youth with lived experience of homelessness

In Person Youth

Fri Nov 22 • 12:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper St.

Friday Lunchtime Talk

with Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm

In Person Youth

Fri Nov 22 • 9:30am • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring the work of students from Hillcrest High School

In Person Youth

Thu Nov 21 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Creativity and Decolonization: Whose stories are we telling?

Panel discussion with Wendy Luttrell, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, and Jacqueline Kennelly

In Person Youth

Thu Nov 21 • 12:45pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Write On! Chapbook Showcase

Featuring the work of grade 8 Kitigan Zibi Kikinamadinan grade 8 and grade 7/8 Fisher Park Summit Alternative School

In Person Youth

Thu Nov 21 • 12:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Thursday Lunchtime Talk

With Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen

In Person Youth

Thu Nov 21 • 9:30am • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring the work of grade 7 students from Fisher Park PS/Summit Alternative

In Person Youth

Wed Nov 20 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

New Ways of Teaching and Learning

With Cindy Blackstock, Kathleen Gallagher and Cornelia Remi

In Person Youth

Wed Nov 20 • 1:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre • 355 Cooper, at O’Connor

Write On! Chapbook Showcase

Featuring the work of students from Connaught Public School

In Person Youth

Wed Nov 20 • 9:00am • Fisher Park PS/Summit Alternative • 250 Holland Avenue

Opening of the Republic of Childhood Youth Forum

In Person Poetry

Sun Nov 17 • 10:00am • ALLSAINTS • 330 LAURIER AVENUE EAST

VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Brunch with a Bunch of Poets

with Afua Cooper, Jason Heroux, Julie Pellissier and Margaret Michele Cook

In Person Music Poetry

Sat Nov 16 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Readings and Music

with Call Me Katie, Jean-Philippe Raiche, Marty Gervais, Paul Costa, Victoria Butler

In Person Poetry

Sat Nov 16 • 3:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: What is a Poet Laureate? (French)

with Jean-Philippe Raiche, Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier, Pierrette Requier and Rachel McCrum

In Person Poetry

Sat Nov 16 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: What is a Poet Laureate? (English)

with Afua Cooper, Deanna Young, Jason Heroux, John Barton and Marty Gervais

In Person Poetry

Fri Nov 15 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2 Opening Reading

with Deanna Young, John Barton, Noemie Pomerleau-Cloutier, Pierrette Requier and Rachel Mccrum

In Person Fiction

Thu Nov 14 • 7:30pm • Knox Church • 120 Lisgar St.

Books and Biryani

with Uzma Jalaluddin

In Person Non-Fict

Tue Nov 12 • 7:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other

with Ken Dryden

In Person Non-Fict

Thu Nov 7 • 7:00pm • Wabano Centre • 299 Montreal Road

Tawaw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

With Chef Shane Chartrand and Jennifer Cockrall-King

In Person Non-Fict

Tue Oct 29 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Rebent Sinner

with Ivan Coyote

In Person Fiction

Tue Oct 29 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Where the Wild Things Are

with Karen McBride and Cherie Dimaline

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Tue Oct 29 • 5:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

With Mona Eltahawy

In Person

Tue Oct 29 • 5:00pm

Tuesday's Menu

In Person Fiction Free

Tue Oct 29 • 12:00pm

Adaptation: From Page to Screen

with Cherie Dimaline

In Person Fiction

Mon Oct 28 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Fear Itself

with Jessica Westhead, Nathan Ripley and Lynn Coady

In Person Non-Fict Science

Mon Oct 28 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space

with Bob McDonald

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Mon Oct 28 • 5:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

A Thousand Small Sanities

with Adam Gopnik

In Person

Mon Oct 28 • 5:00pm

Monday's Menu

In Person Fiction Non-Fict Free

Mon Oct 28 • 12:00pm

All of Me

with Naben Ruthnum and Nathan Ripley

In Person Fiction

Sun Oct 27 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Friends Like These

Sara Peters, Megan Gail Coles and Anakana Schofield

In Person Fiction

Sun Oct 27 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Family Ties

with Zalika Reid-Benta, Carol Rose GoldenEagle and Michael Crummey

In Person

Sun Oct 27 • 5:00pm

Sunday's Menu

In Person Poetry

Sun Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub • 370 Elgin St.

Plan 99: ARC Poetry Fall Launch

In Person Non-Fict Science

Sun Oct 27 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Daughter of Family G

with Ami McKay

In Person Non-Fict

Sun Oct 27 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Modern Family

with Rick Prashaw and Amanda Jette Knox

In Person Non-Fict

Sun Oct 27 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Laughing Matters

with Laurie Gelman and Dave Hill

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 26 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Day After Tomorrow

with Derek Kunsken and Annalee Newitz

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 26 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Make Tomorrow

with Michael Christie and Johanna Skibsrud

In Person Fiction

Sat Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Art and Craft

with Steven Price and Jennifer Robson

In Person

Sat Oct 26 • 5:00pm

Saturday's Menu

In Person Poetry Free

Sat Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub • 370 Elgin St.

Plan 99 Poetry

Jacqueline Turner, K.B. Thors and Nikki Reimer

In Person Non-Fict

Sat Oct 26 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

We Have Always Been Here

with Samra Habib

In Person Non-Fict

Sat Oct 26 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

The Vagina Bible

with Dr. Jen Gunter

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Sat Oct 26 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Power Shift

with Sally Armstrong

In Person Poetry Free

Fri Oct 25 • 9:00pm

2019 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award

with Tomasz W. Wiszniewski and Jack Pine

In Person Fiction

Fri Oct 25 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks st.

Fame

with Amy Jones and Terry Fallis

In Person Fiction

Fri Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Where the Heart Is

with Anar Ali and Rebecca Fisseha

In Person

Fri Oct 25 • 5:00pm

Friday's Menu

In Person Fiction Politics Non-Fict History Free

Fri Oct 25 • 12:00pm

Graphic History

with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Katherena Vermette

In Person Poetry

Thu Oct 24 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Poetry Cabaret

with Katherena Vermette and Billy-Ray Belcourt

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Thu Oct 24 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

In My Own Moccasins

with Helen Knott

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Thu Oct 24 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Had it Coming

with Robyn Doolittle

In Person

Thu Oct 24 • 5:00pm

Thursday's Menu

In Person

Wed Oct 16 • 6:30pm • Ottawa City Hall • 110 Laurier Avenue West

City of Ottawa Book Awards / Prix du Livre D’Ottawa

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 16 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada • 380 Sussex Drive

Between the Pages

An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

In Person Non-Fict

Sat Oct 5 • 2:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington st.

To Speak for the Trees

with Diana Beresford-Kroeger

In Person Fiction

Wed Oct 2 • 7:00pm • Dominion Chalmers • 355 Cooper Street

NEW DATE: The Testaments

One on One with Margaret Atwood

In Person Non-Fict History

Tue Oct 1 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave.

CANCELLED: A Beginner's Guide to Japan

One on One with Pico Iyer

In Person Fiction

Thu Sep 26 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave.

Akin

One on One with Emma Donoghue

In Person Non-Fict History

Wed Sep 25 • 7:30pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

Book Launch: Truth Be Told

with Beverley McLachlin

In Person Non-Fict History

Tue Sep 24 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada • 395 Wellington St.

Book Launch: Murdered Midas

With Charlotte Gray

In Person Politics Non-Fict History

Fri Sep 20 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Aylmer Ave.

From Where I Stand

with Jody Wilson-Raybould

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Mon Sep 9 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church • 15 Alymer Ave.

On Justin Trudeau

with Aaron Wherry and John Ivison

In Person Fiction

Mon Aug 19 • 10:00am • Ottawa Public Library - Vanier Branch • 310 Pères-Blancs Ave.

Republic of Childhood Pathfinder Writing Camp - SOLD OUT

With Aidan and Neil Wilson

In Person Fiction

Thu Jul 18 • 7:00pm • NAC Alan and Roula Rossy Pavilion • 1 Elgin st.

Book Launch: This Is How You Lose the Time War

with Amal El-Mohtar

In Person Non-Fict History

Wed Jun 12 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada, Alfred Pellan Room (2nd floor) • 395 Wellington Street

Indigenous Writers’ Gathering

with Colleen Cardinal, Suzanne Methot and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

In Person Music

Thu Jun 6 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks Street

Random Play with CBC's Alan Neal

with Lydia Ainsworth, Basia Bulat, Kathleen Edwards, Kobo Town and Tom Wilson

In Person Non-Fict History Music

Wed May 29 • 7:00pm • Dominion Chalmers • 355 Cooper St.

One on One

with Geddy Lee

In Person Politics Non-Fict

Mon May 27 • 7:00pm • allsaints event space • 10 Blackburn Avenue

Book Launch: TEARDOWN: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up

Dave Meslin

In Person Fiction Non-Fict

Tue May 7 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

On Short Stories, Comics and Mentorship

with Téa Mutonji and Vivek Shraya

In Person Fiction

Tue May 7 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

No Place Like Home

with Nilofar Shidmehr, Pierre Jarawan and David Bezmozgis

In Person

Tue May 7 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks Street

Tuesday's Menu

In Person Non-Fict History

Mon May 6 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Living History

with Alicia Elliott and Terese Marie Mailhot

In Person Fiction

Mon May 6 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Truth in Fiction

with Karen Lee White and Richard Van Camp

In Person Non-Fict History

Mon May 6 • 5:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

with Bruce Pascoe

In Person

Mon May 6 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks Street

Monday's Menu

In Person Fiction

Mon May 6 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

On Creativity: One on One

with Cornelia Funke

In Person Non-Fict

Sun May 5 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral • 414 Sparks St.

Beyond Binaries