The RailRoad Reading Series is going to host its first open-mic at 7:30 PM on 25 September 2014 at Pressed Café, 750 Gladstone. There will also be 2 features, rob mclennan and Ricardo Sternberg Readers at the open-mic will have 3 minutes to read, which will allow people to read multiple poems or one long […]
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Literary Landscape: tonight Sawdust gets set to fly
Tonight at 6:30pm EST at 93.1fm or CKCU online I’m talking with Jennifer Pederson is in studio about the new reading series she’s starting. Jennifer Pederson is an Ottawa poet, musician, and teacher. Her life is filled with children, art, and pickled herring. She is also the director of The Sawdust Reading Series, Where? Pour […]
Creative Writing Camps for Youth
Now it’s third week with a new crew each week, the Creative Writing Camps have one more week to go. If you know a kid ages 13-16 who could benefit from the sessions with instructors and guest speakers. The instructors are: Sanita Fejzic is an Ottawa-based literary author and freelance writer. She freelances for a […]
95books for 2014, list 10: Writers of History
In this set, memoirs and memories of writers reaching to the start of the last century in Canada, through 1400s France, through 1800s China and to the artist now. It’s rare for me to read a book, let alone 3 at the same time where I would considering stocking up copies and thrusting them at […]