Events - Ottawa International Writers Festival

Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Thu Jan 25 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

with David Frum

Thu Feb 15 • 7:00pm • IA&A at Hillyer

An Evening with Canisia Lubrin, S.K. Ali, Cherie Dimaline, Amal El-Mohtar, and Aviaq Johnston

Mon Mar 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada, Pellan Room (2nd Floor)

Canada Reads 2018:

Forgiveness with Mark Sakamoto

Mon Mar 26 • 7:15pm • Southminster United Church

Enlightenment Now

with Steven Pinker

Wed Mar 28 • 7:30pm • Arts Court Theatre

An Evening with Gcina Mhlophe

Thu Mar 29 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada

Jan Wong and Jackie Kai Ellis in conversation with Hattie Klotz

Thu Apr 5 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada

Book Launch: Mary Cyr

by David Adams Richards

Sat Apr 14 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with Mikko Harvey, Emma Healey and AF Moritz

Thu Apr 19 • 7:00pm • Centretown United Church

The Boy on the Beach

with Tima Kurdi

Thu Apr 26 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Thursday's Menu

Thu Apr 26 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

12 Ways to Honesty in Canada

with John Ralston Saul

Thu Apr 26 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Decolonizing the Dialogue

with Lee Maracle

Fri Apr 27 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Fri Apr 27 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

The Power of Kindness

with Dr. Brian Goldman

Fri Apr 27 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Imagining Truths

with Omar El Akkad, Cherie Dimaline and Timothy Taylor

Sat Apr 28 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Ruth Marshall and Kate Harris

Sat Apr 28 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Limits of Human Performance

with Alex Hutchinson

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

The Spinning Magnet

with Alanna Mitchell

Sat Apr 28 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

Plan 99: Spotlight on Biblioasis

with Amanda Jernigan, Rachel Lebowitz, Richard Sanger and Paige Cooper

Sat Apr 28 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Saturday's Menu

Sat Apr 28 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

The Wonder Years

with Carrianne Leung, Robert Everett-Green and Kerri Sakamoto

Sat Apr 28 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Borders and Belonging

with Djamila Ibrahim, Arif Anwar and Sharon Bala

Sun Apr 29 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Man Up: Understanding Masculinity

with Rachel Giese and Daemon Fairless

Sun Apr 29 • 4:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

The Lives of Women and Girls

with Elizabeth Renzetti

Sun Apr 29 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

with Stevie Howell, Canisia Lubrin and Gillian Sze

Sun Apr 29 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Sun Apr 29 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Casey Plett, Amber Dawn and Joshua Whitehead

Sun Apr 29 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

MESSAGIO GALORE take XVc :

a view of the 4-H Club from the banks of the Pottowatomi

Mon Apr 30 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Mon Apr 30 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Europa: Spotlight on European Fiction

with Janis Jonevs, Viveca Sten and Dirk Kurbjuweit

Mon Apr 30 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Race, Repression and Resilience

with Robyn Maynard and Chelene Knight

Tue May 1 • 12:00pm • Metropolitain Brasserie

Literary Luncheon

with Beverley McLachlin

Tue May 1 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Tue May 1 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Full Disclosure

with Beverley McLachlin

Tue May 1 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Invaluable Lessons from My Father

with Heather O’Neill

Thu Aug 30 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

America, The Farewell Tour

with Chris Hedges

Mon Sep 10 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

with Miriam Toews

Thu Sep 27 • 5:30pm • Irene's Pub

General Idea: Life & Work

Sarah E.K. Smith

Mon Oct 1 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada

Book Launch: All Things Consoled with Elizabeth Hay

Hosted by Charlotte Gray

Sat Oct 6 • 2:00pm • Ottawa Public Library Sunnyside Branch

Youth Writer’s Workshop

with Kagiso Lesogo Molope

Wed Oct 17 • 7:00pm • Ottawa City Hall

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

Thu Oct 18 • 5:30pm • Irene's Pub

Diaspora and Media in Europe

Sat Oct 20 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada

Book Launch: Atelier

with Chef Marc Lepine

Thu Oct 25 • 12:00pm • e18hteen

Literary Luncheon

with Ian Rankin

Thu Oct 25 • 5:00pm • 414 Sparks St.

Thursday's Menu

Thu Oct 25 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country

with David Johnston

Thu Oct 25 • 6:35pm • Christ Church Cathedral

In/Words Presents Dis(s)ent

With Sanita Fejzić

Thu Oct 25 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

In a House of Lies

One on One with Ian Rankin

Thu Oct 25 • 8:35pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Bywords 2018 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading and Ceremony

Fri Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Fri Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Lisa Moore and Patrick DeWitt

Fri Oct 26 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Past Is Present

with Ondjaki and Esi Edugyan

Fri Oct 26 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

With Jordan Tannahill and Dionne Brand

Sat Oct 27 • 12:00pm • Metropolitain Brasserie

On Starlight: Literary Brunch

with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers

Sat Oct 27 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

How Schools Can Prepare Our Children

for the Challenges of Tomorrow with Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Nancy Steinhauer

Sat Oct 27 • 4:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Darrel J. McLeod and Tom Wilson

Sat Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

Plan 99 Fiction

with Martha Bátiz, D. Nandi Odhiambo and Tamara Faith Berger

Sat Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Saturday's Menu

Sat Oct 27 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

One on One with Dionne Brand

Sat Oct 27 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Cancelled: I Am a Body of Land

with Shannon Webb-Campbell and Lee Maracle

Sat Oct 27 • 9:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

I’m Afraid of Men

with Vivek Shraya

Sun Oct 28 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

The Secret History of Soldiers

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

The Extreme Centre

Sun Oct 28 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Sun Oct 28 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub

with Deanna Young, Julie Bruck, Paul Vermeersch and Hana Shafi

Sun Oct 28 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Waubgeshig Rice and Eden Robinson

Sun Oct 28 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Wayne Grady, Natalie Morrill and Alix Hawley

Mon Oct 29 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Mon Oct 29 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

with Amy Stuart, Ron Corbett and Barbara Fradkin

Mon Oct 29 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

With Gillian Wigmore and Helen Humphreys

Mon Oct 29 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Subjective Truths

with Iain Reid and Craig Davidson

Tue Oct 30 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Tue Oct 30 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada

Between the Pages

An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

Tue Oct 30 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

25th Anniversary of above/ground press

with Sandra Ridley, Gil McElroy and Sarah Mangold

Tue Oct 30 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral

ARC Magazine 40th Anniversary Launch

Thu Nov 1 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church

My Stories, My Times

with Jean Chretien

Thu Nov 8 • 7:00pm • Centrepointe Theatre

Rick Mercer’s Final Report

Fri Nov 9 • 7:00pm • Centretown United Church

with Charles Frazier

Tue Nov 13 • 7:30pm • NAC, Alan and Roula Rossy Pavilion

Book Launch: Such a Lonely, Lovely Road

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Thu Nov 15 • 7:00pm • 25OneCommunity

Books and Biryani: Dislocation: Finding Ourselves Again

with Djamila Ibrahim

Mon Nov 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada

Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe

With Dr. Dave Williams

Tue Nov 20 • 12:00pm • National Arts Centre, Peter A. Herrndorf Place

Republic of Childhood Chapbook Launch