Past Episodes

Podcast Non-Fict Science Memoir Free

Sun Apr 26 • 12:00pm

Writers Festival Radio: Science Spotlight

with Louise K. Blight and David Eliot

Podcast Fiction History Free

Fri Apr 24 • 4:00pm

Writers Festival Radio S08E03

with Wayne Johnston and Ashraf Zaghal

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

Podcast Fiction

Thu Oct 23 • 12:00pm

S07E04

with Souvankham Thammavongsa and Elaine Feeney

Podcast Politics Non-Fict History Memoir Free

Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm

S07E03

with Quill Christie-Peters and Linden MacIntyre

Podcast Fiction Free

Tue Sep 16 • 12:00pm

S07E02

with Emma Donoghue and Michael Redhill

Podcast Fiction Music Poetry Free

Tue Sep 2 • 12:00pm

S07E01

with Arizona and Heather O'Neill and Stuart Ross

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

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

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

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

Podcast Fiction

Thu Nov 17 • 12:00pm

Try Not to Be Strange

with Michael Hingston

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

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

Podcast Poetry

Thu Oct 6 • 12:00pm

Dream of Me as Water

with David Ly

Podcast Fiction

Thu Sep 29 • 12:00pm

Haven

with Emma Donoghue 

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

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

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

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

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

Podcast

Wed Apr 27 • 12:00pm

Look Back at Season 3

Podcast

Tue Apr 26 • 12:01pm

Look Back at Season 2

Podcast

Tue Apr 26 • 12:00pm

Look Back at Season 1

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

Podcast Memoir

Fri Nov 12 • 12:00pm

Permanent Astonishment

with Tomson Highway

Podcast Poetry

Fri Nov 5 • 12:00pm

Umbilical Cord

with Hasan Namir

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 29 • 12:00pm

A Time Outside This Time

with Amitava Kumar

Podcast Non-Fict

Fri Oct 22 • 12:00pm

Nice White Ladies

with Jessie Daniels

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

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

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

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 24 • 12:01pm

Tenderness

with Alison MacLeod

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 24 • 12:00pm

The Spectacular

with Zoe Whittall

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 17 • 12:01pm

Undersong

with Kathleen Winter

Podcast Fiction

Fri Sep 17 • 12:00pm

The Retreat

with Elisabeth de Mariaffi

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

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

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

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

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

Podcast Fiction

Fri May 14 • 12:01pm

Hummingbird Salamander

with Jeff VanderMeer

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri May 14 • 12:00pm

Bruised

with Tanya Boteju

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

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

Podcast Fiction

Fri Apr 16 • 12:00pm

Hana Khan Carries On

with Uzma Jalaluddin

Podcast Fiction

Fri Apr 9 • 12:00pm

Tainna: The Unseen Ones

with Norma Dunning

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

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

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

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

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

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Fri Dec 4 • 12:00pm

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

with Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

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

Podcast Non-Fict Youth

Tue Nov 24 • 12:00pm

Education and Social Mobility

with Andy Hargreaves

Podcast Fiction Youth

Fri Nov 20 • 12:00pm

Writing for Young Readers

Featuring Kenneth Oppel and Deborah Ellis

Podcast Politics Non-Fict History Memoir

Tue Nov 17 • 12:00pm

Yes, It's Systemic

Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt

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

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Fri Nov 6 • 12:00pm

A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:

Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings

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

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

Podcast Non-Fict Memoir

Tue Oct 20 • 12:00pm

Letting Go of Anxiety

with Tara Henley

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 16 • 12:00pm

Crime and Punishment

Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart

Podcast Fiction

Tue Oct 13 • 12:20pm

Lies That Tell Us Truth

Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad

Podcast Fiction

Fri Oct 9 • 12:00pm

Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth

Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson

Podcast Fiction

Tue Oct 6 • 12:00pm

Agency and Consent

Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon

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

Podcast Non-Fict Science Memoir

Fri Sep 25 • 12:00pm

Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain

Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman

Podcast Fiction History

Tue Sep 22 • 12:00pm

Confronting History

with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert

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

Podcast Memoir

Fri Sep 11 • 12:00pm

Living with Dying Part One

with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey

Podcast Fiction History

Fri Sep 4 • 12:40pm

Living History

With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson

Podcast Memoir

Fri Aug 28 • 11:08am

Surviving and Thriving

With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola

Podcast Fiction

Fri Aug 21 • 12:00pm

Fear itself

with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones

Podcast

Tue Aug 11 • 2:00pm

The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast Announced