Events - Ottawa International Writers Festival

Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Sat Mar 2 • 7:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery

Twisting Reality: Hiding in Plain Sight with Charles de Lint, Gary Blackwood and Cheryl Rainfield

Sun Mar 3 • 2:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery

Workshop Twisting Reality:Hiding in Plain Sight

Wed Apr 10 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

One on One with Alexander McCall Smith

Hosted by Inger Ash Wolfe

Thu Apr 18 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

419: One on One with Will Ferguson

Hosted by Alan Neal

Sat Apr 20 • 8:30pm • National Arts Centre Panorama Room

Suddenly, A Knock on the Door Etgar Keret in Conversation with Jonathan Goldstein

Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Israel

Thu Apr 25 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Stories within Stories, Truth within Lies: Thomas Pletzinger, Ron Currie Jr. and Ruth Ozeki

Hosted by Michael Blouin

Thu Apr 25 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

All In A Day Songwriter’s Circle: Random Play with Alan Neal

Hosted by the CBC's Alan Neal

Fri Apr 26 • 12:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Essentials of the Short Story: A conversation on craft with Nancy Jo Cullen and Tamas Dobozy

Hosted by John Metcalf

Fri Apr 26 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Writing your Life with Amber Dawn, Iain Reid and Miriam Katin

Hosted by Mark Medley

Fri Apr 26 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Every Happy Family with Cathy Marie Buchanan, Saleema Nawaz and Shyam Selvadurai

Hosted by Mark Medley

Sat Apr 27 • 12:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe with Chris Impey

St. Laurent Academy's Michael Leveille

Sat Apr 27 • 2:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives with John Elder Robison

Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Joanne Laucius

Sat Apr 27 • 4:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement with Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis

Hosted by the Ottawa Citizen's Joanne Chianello

Sat Apr 27 • 5:00pm • The Manx Pub

Plan 99 Fiction Cabaret with Tamas Dobozy and Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Hosted by David O’Meara

Sat Apr 27 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

House of Anansi Poetry Bash: Adam Dickinson, Sara Peters and Michael Crummey

Hosted by David O’Meara

Sat Apr 27 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Northern Scene: Taqralik Partridge and Ivan E. Coyote

Hosted by the CBC's Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

Sun Apr 28 • 11:00am • Table 40

Lunch with Sarah Elton at Table 40 by Fraser Cafe

Sun Apr 28 • 2:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

One on One with Colm Toibin

Hosted by Elizabeth Hay

Sun Apr 28 • 4:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Northern Scene: Northwords with Shelagh Rogers, Geoff Morrison, Rabindranath Maharaj and Noah Richler

Hosted by Shelagh Rogers

Sun Apr 28 • 4:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Banned in Canada with Howard Chaykin

Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Kate Heartfield

Sun Apr 28 • 5:00pm • The Manx Pub

Plan 99 Poetry Cabaret with David Seymour, Stephanie Bolster and Rona Shaffran

Hosted by David O’Meara

Sun Apr 28 • 6:30pm • Southminster United Church

The Future of Food for a Crowded Planet: with Sarah Elton Lorraine Johnson and Barry Estabrook

Hosted by The CBC’s Bob Carty

Sun Apr 28 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

River of Stars: One on One with Guy Gavriel Kay

Hosted by Neil Wilson

Sun Apr 28 • 8:30pm • National Arts Centre Fourth Stage

Northern Scene: I Count Myself Among Themby Richard van Camp.

Hosted by Shelagh Rogers

Sun Apr 28 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Criminally Great Writing with Peggy Blair, Inger Ash Wolfe and Gail Bowen

Hosted by CBC's Sandra Abma

Mon Apr 29 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person with Rabbi Harold Kushner

Hosted by The CBC's Laurence Wall

Mon Apr 29 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Suffer The Child with Emmanuel Dongala, Kenneth Bonert and Mia Couto

Hosted by Steven Hayward

Tue Apr 30 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe with Lee Smolin

Hosted by Stephen Brockwell

Tue Apr 30 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now with Douglas Rushkoff

Hosted by Andrew Potter

Tue Apr 30 • 9:05pm • Bytowne Cinema

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed Silent Film and Live Music

Sun May 5 • 11:00am • National Arts Centre Panorama Room

Books and Brunch with Sandra Martin, Dorothy Speak, Carolyn Abraham and Stephen Maher

Wed May 8 • 7:00pm • Jean Pigott Place, City Hall

Eat Street: Recipes from the Tastiest, Messiest, and Most Irresistible Food Trucks with James Cunningham

Hosted by CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

Mon May 13 • 7:00pm • Saint Paul University Amphitheatre

Paris with Edward Rutherfurd

Hosted by Charlotte Gray

Sat Jun 15 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

The Silver Star:One on One with Jeannette Walls

Hosted by CBC's Sandra Abma

Wed Jul 17 • 9:00pm • Outside City Hall

Music & Film Under the Stars: Canadian Short Films with new scores by Mike Dubue

Tue Sep 24 • 12:00pm • Restaurant E18hteen

Literary Luncheon with Margaret Atwood A fundraiser for Children’s Literacy

Tue Sep 24 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

One on One with Margaret Atwood

Hosted by CBC’s Alan Neal

Tue Sep 24 • 7:00pm • Sunnyside OPL

OPL Teen Author Festival: Elizabeth Wein

Mon Sep 30 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

One on One with Wayne Johnston

Hosted by CBC's Adrian Harewood

Wed Oct 9 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

Fire and Ashes: One on One with Michael Ignatieff

Hosted by Craig Oliver, Chief Political Correspondent, CTV News

Tue Oct 22 • 7:00pm • Empire Grill

Chef Lynn Crawford

Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Laura Robin

Tue Oct 22 • 8:00pm • Shenkman Arts Centre, Richcraft Theatre

THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS / LE PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA & THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD FOR POETRY

Thu Oct 24 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

BLUE RODEO: FIVE DAYS IN JULY 20 YEARS IN OCTOBER!

Hosted and curated by CBC's Alan Neal

Fri Oct 25 • 12:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

The Postsecular Imagination with Manav Ratti

Hosted by Carleton University’s Richard Mann

Fri Oct 25 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

A Pretty Sight with David O’Meara

Fri Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books with Stephen Brockwell

Hosted by Michael Dennis

Fri Oct 25 • 9:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

The Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award

Hosted by Amanda Earl

Sat Oct 26 • 12:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice with Jo Becker

Hosted by The Hill Times’ Jim Creskey

Sat Oct 26 • 2:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Ontario Legal System in Crisis

Hosted by the Ottawa Citizen's Matthew Pearson

Sat Oct 26 • 4:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

One on One with Amanda Lindhout

Hosted by Louisa Taylor

Sat Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

Plan 99: BookThug Launch with Michael Blouin, Sandra Ridley and André Alexis

Hosted by David O’Meara

Sat Oct 26 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Long Story Short with Cynthia Flood, Kelli Deeth & Lynn Coady

Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Kate Heartfiled

Sat Oct 26 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

To Thine Own Self Be True: Michael Winter and Joseph Boyden

Hosted by the National Post’s Mark Medley

Sun Oct 27 • 11:30am • Metropolitain Brasserie

Literary Luncheon with Joseph Boyden

Sun Oct 27 • 2:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

One on One with Jody Williams

Hosted by CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

Sun Oct 27 • 4:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Ascent of Women with Sally Armstrong

Hosted by CBC's Sandra Abma

Sun Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

Plan 99 Fiction Cabaret with Andrew Steinmetz and Jaspreet Singh

Hosted by David O’Meara

Sun Oct 27 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Love and Fear: Rupert Thomson, Wayne Grady & David Gilmour

Sun Oct 27 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Crime and Punishment: D.W. Wilson, Catherine Bush & Lisa Moore

Hosted by Sandra Ridley

Mon Oct 28 • 12:00pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Masterclass: Reading to Write A conversation with David Gilmour

Hosted by Sean Wilson

Mon Oct 28 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Paikin and the Premiers

Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Joanne Chiannello

Mon Oct 28 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

The War That Ended Peace with Margaret MacMillan

Hosted by CBC's Laurence Wall

Tue Oct 29 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Living History with Denise Chong and Charlotte Gray

Hosted by CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

Tue Oct 29 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

State of the Nation: John Ibbitson, Susan Delacourt & Paul Wells

Hosted by CBC's National Reporter Rosemary Barton

Wed Oct 30 • 6:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Things That Go Bump: Carsten Stroud, Corey Redekop & Andrew Pyper

Hosted by Steven Hayward

Wed Oct 30 • 8:30pm • Knox Presbyterian Church

Scene of the Crime: Marcia Clark, Thomas Enger, Jorn Lier Horst & Peter Robinson

Hosted by CBC's Sandra Abma

Fri Nov 1 • 7:00pm • Arnprior Public Library

Arnprior Expressions Criminal Minds with John Lawton and Peggy Blair

in conjunction with the Arnprior Public Library

Thu Nov 7 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

Canada in a Century of Change: One on One with Joe Clark

Hosted by Author, Don Newman

Mon Nov 11 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

Not Quite the Classics: One on One with Colin Mochrie

Hosted by CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

Tue Nov 12 • 6:30pm • Nepean Centrepointe OPL

OPL Teen Author Festival: Lemony Snicket

Fri Nov 15 • 7:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery and Coffeehouse

Twisting Reality with Lesley Livingston and Eve Silver

Sat Nov 16 • 2:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery and Coffeehouse

Tips and Tricks for Novel Writing a workshop with Lesley Livingston

Sat Nov 16 • 7:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery and Coffeehouse

Hiding in Plain Sight with Emily Pohl-Weary and Erin Bow

Sun Nov 17 • 2:00pm • Bridgehead Roastery and Coffeehouse

In the details: A workshop with Erin Bow

Mon Nov 18 • 7:00pm • Nepean Centrepointe OPL

OPL Teen Author Festival: Lauren Oliver

Sat Nov 23 • 11:00am • Main Branch, Ottawa Public Library

Support Local: Book Sale and Signing

Presented by Apt613.ca

Thu Nov 28 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

Our Place in the Natural World with J.B. Mackinnon and Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Hosted by Neil Wilson

Sat Nov 30 • 12:00pm • Metropolitain Brasserie

Literary Luncheon with Ian Rankin

Sat Nov 30 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

One on One with Ian Rankin

Hosted by CBC's Alan Neal

Sat Dec 7 • 5:00pm • The Manx Pub

Ground rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013

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