fwd; Ottawa International Writers Festival 15th Annual Fall Season!!

Dear Festival Friends - Hope you've been having a great summer!

We've been hard at work on the Fall Season and have some great authors and events lined up to celebrate our 15th anniversary! Time flies when you are having fun!

We kick things off on September 13th with Michael Ondaatje (hosted by Joseph Boyden!) with the following authors leading up to the Fall Festival (October 20 to 25): Irshad Manji, Tzeporah Berman, William Marsden, Chris Turner, Chef Michael Smith, Wayne Johnston, Kevin O'Leary, Randy Bachman and Adrienne Clarkson. Details and tickets are all available online: http://www.writersfestival.org/events

September 1st marks the start of our new Membership Season. Make a minimum monthly donation of just $20 (which ensures at least 80 more area children are able to participate in our free children's literacy initiatives) and you get preferred seating and free access to an entire year of events including the 2011 Fall Festival and the 2012 Spring Edition. You also get special invitations to exclusive events and receptions (including a post-event celebration on September 13th).

For tickets or more info please give us a call at 613.562.1243 or visit us online at http://www.writersfestival.org

We hope to see you soon!

All the best,

Sean

Sean Wilson

Artistic Director

Ottawa International Writers Festival

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Dear Friends and Colleagues/


Do please join us for the Canadian Literature Centre’s annual flagship event: the 2008 Henry Kreisel Lecture, at the TIMMS Centre for the Arts, March 5th, 2008, 7.30 p.m. This year’s lecturer is Wayne Johnston, and his talk is called “The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland: Memory, Family, Fiction and Myth.” Johnston will be discussing the myths and realities around the perception of Newfoundland.


Wayne Johnston is the author of seven books as well as a contributing editor of The Walrus. His first book, Bobby O’Malley, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Baltimore’s Mansion, a memoir dealing with his grandfather, his father and himself, was tremendously well-received and won the prestigious Charles Taylor prize for creative non-fiction.


His novels The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York spent extended periods of time on bestseller lists in Canada and have been published in the US, Britain, Germany, Holland, China and Spain. Wayne Johnston divides his time between Toronto and Roanoke, Virginia where he has held the Distinguished Chair in Creative Writing at Hollins University since 2004.


Please join us ! Admission is Free !
Reception and Book-signing to Follow.


Wednesday, March 5th, 7.30 p.m.
TIMMS Centre for the Arts (87 Ave & 112 St)
University of Alberta