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These are the most recent articles mentioning "writers festival" so much for that ... d nat'l poetry month enough for a while. my way of celebrating will be not to blog anymore this month; however, i will likely still blog a few of the writers festival poetry events over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.so much for resolutions. le sigh.... 6 ways to mark National Poetry Month ... t having experienced the bounty the literary community here has to offer.ps: Check out Pearl's reports on the Ottawa Poetry newsletter blog about the Writers Festival!... Not about poetry this time Last night at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, during the fantastic Writing Life #2, I was enthralled with the readings of Gale Zoë Garnett and Elizabeth Hay. Then Ahmad Saidullah took the stage and read from his short story collection. I was enjoying his work until he got to the title sto... 6 word memoir ... hat today is Poem In Your Pocket Day; write out a favourite poem and give it to someone. this would be a cool thing to do at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, eh?ght before, at the Secrets of Literary Publishing session with Stan Dragland, Beth Follett and Allan Breismaster, Beth Follet of ... life as poetry, changes to this blog ... created an imbalance of content with sometimes no blog entries on one blog for ages. as George Murray said when we spoke at the Ottawa International Writers Festival a year ago, when he talked about his blog Bookninja.com, if you want people to read, you need to have an active blog, posting daily i... april has been a smashing month ... :a visit from a good friend and lover from out of towndiscovery of Steve Venright, whose writing i really enjoyed, thanks to the Ottawa International Writers Festival, which is in itself an inspiration and joy time after time (to quote Cyndi Lauper)two concerts by my favourite singer, Ron Sexsmithme... Hurray! The Writers Festival is Coming! one of the reasons i love autumn is because of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. if anything has given Ottawa a literary season, it™s the festival. they™ve announced their fall line up... here are the events and activities i™m especially excited about:the Masterclass Series: last spring and... Hurray! The Writers Festival is Coming! one of the reasons i love autumn is because of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. if anything has given Ottawa a literary season, it™s the festival. they™ve announced their fall line up... here are the events and activities i™m especially excited about:the Masterclass Series: last spring and... Meet me at the Festival for the next ten days you will find me at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. i don't know how much blogging i'll have time or lucidity to do, but blogging on poetry stuff will happen over at the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.please come and visit the Bywords table at the mini small press fair at ... Meet me at the Festival for the next ten days you will find me at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. i don't know how much blogging i'll have time or lucidity to do, but blogging on poetry stuff will happen over at the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.please come and visit the Bywords table at the mini small press fair at ... Hurray! The Writers Festival is Coming! one of the reasons i love autumn is because of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. if anything has given Ottawa a literary season, it™s the festival. they™ve announced their fall line up... here are the events and activities i™m especially excited about:the Masterclass Series: last spring and... Eva™s Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz Got a chance to hear Andrew Steinmetz read from this book at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last month and snapped up the book from the Nicholas Hoare Books table. The book is a combination of fiction and memoir. It is the story of Eva, Steinmetz™s great aunt, who had performed in the f... WHAT KIND OF OTTAWA DO YOU WANT? (Ottawa Citizen, 19 Dec 2008, Page F4) ... Ottawa Art Gallery, the Ottawa School of Art, the School for Photographic Arts Ottawa, local theatre, and festivals such as the Ottawa International Writers Festival and the Ottawa Folk Festival. It also means providing funding to individual artists and writers who live in the city and contribute t... << back