Ottawa Writers Festival, May 14th Events

Join Ottawa Writers Festival for two crime fiction events, featuring authors Uzma Jalaluddin, Nita Prose, Sue Hincenbergs, Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti!

Tickets and details available at writersfestival.org

Mike Martin Double Book Launch

Mike Martin returns to Perfect Books to launch two brand new books:

-Friends are Forever, the new Sgt. Wildflower Mystery

and

-Hope, Love, and Other Dreams, a collection of poetry

He'll be joined by special musicial guest Victoria Vlad! Join us for an evening of poetry, readings, and music.

Ottawa Writers Festival presents Happily Ever After

Ottawa Writers Festivals brings together three romance authors for discuss their different takes on love and the promise of happily ever after. Join Emma Theriault, Uzma Jalaluddin and Jackie Lau, with host Jennifer Whiteford!

Tickets and more details at writersfestival.org

Ottawa Writers Festival, May 16th Events

Ottawa Writers Festival brings you another double-header evening featuring authors David A. Robertson, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, and Catherine Khordoc. A fantastic evening you don't want to miss!

More details and tickets at writersfestival.org

No One Knows Us There & Familial Hungers Double Book Launch

Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek grace Perfect Books with a double book launch of their debut poetry collections! Don't miss it! With special guest and host Ellen Chang-Richardson.

Familial Hungers (Brick Books) by Christine Wu is a book of poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow.

No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press) by Jessica Bebenek, presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older, compassionately looking back on her younger self. In this second half, Bebenek rewrites poems from the first, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing.

Is a River Alive? with Ottawa Writers Festival

Ottawa Writers Festival brings celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane to Ottawa, with his brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title.

At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept.

Tickets and details at writersfestival.org

The Mind Mappers Launch

Join Globe and Mail journalist Eric Andrew-Gee in conversation with Charlote Gray as he launches The Mind-Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal, and the Obesssive Quest to Chart the Brain (Penguin Random House).

Future-Generation Government

Join Ottawa author and public servant Nicholas Chesterley as he brings his insider take and a fresh perspective on why governments so often focus on the short-term rather than the long. Join us for the launch of Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term.

Water Borne Book Launch

Ottawa-based writer Dan Rubenstein launches Water Borne: A 1200-Mile Paddleboarding Pilgramage (ECW Press) at the Black Pug!