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OUR PROGRAMME IN 2015 - NOTRE PROGRAMME EN 2015

 

Prose in the Park was delighted to offer you in 2015 the best one-day literary festival program ever in Ottawa

 

Sur une journée entière en 2015, Prose des vents était enchantée de proposer la meilleure programmation offerte dans le cadre d’un festival littéraire à Ottawa.

 

Special Events / Événements spéciaux with/avec

Master of Ceremonies / Maître des cérémonies Sang Kim

 

Interview with Giller Prize Winner Vincent Lam (The Headmaster's Wager 

and Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures) - South Stage - 11:30 am - 12 noon

 

Canadian Book Launch of The Storm Murders by John Farrow (Trevor Ferguson)

Panelists' Tent - 2 pm - 2:30 pm

 

Ottawa Book Launch of Stalin's Daughter by Governor General Award Winner Rosemary Sullivan - South Stage - 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

 

 

Panels / Tables rondes

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

Join us at Prose in the Park Literary Festival and Book Fair. Joignez-vous  à  nous au festival littéraire et à la foire de livres  Prose des vents 

 

 

Short is Sweet (short fiction panel)

 

Ursula Pflug (Motion Sickness - Innana Publications) - Peterborough County

Jon Paul Fiorentino (I'm Not Scared of You or Anything - Anvil Press) - Montreal

Nicholas Ruddock (How Loveta Got Her Baby - Breakwater Books) - Guelph

Craig Calhoun (2014 Broken Pencil Deathmatch Champion) - Ottawa

 

Moderated by John Delacourt (author of Ocular Proof)

 

LOCATION: SOUTH STAGE

TIME: 12 noon - 1 pm

Sci-Fi, High Five 

 

Julie Czerneda (winner of the 2014 Aurora Award for A Turn of Light), Penguin Canada - Toronto

Hayden Trenholm (twice winner of the Aurora Award), Bundoran Press - Ottawa

Alex Binkley (author of Humanity's Saving Grace) - Ottawa

 

Moderated by Kevin T. Johns (Write Along Radio)

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE 

TIME: 12 noon - 1 pm

Imagine (Fantasy Panel)

 

Charles de Lint (winner of the World Fantasy Award  and the Canadian SF/Fantasy Award - 40 novels) - Ottawa

Marie Bilodeau (Aurora Award finalist for Destiny’s Blood) - Ottawa

Jay Odjick (creator of Kagagi - the raven), Gatineau, Quebec

Linda Poitevin (author of the Grigori Legacy series from Ace/Roc Books), Ottawa

Amal El-Mokhtar (Nebula nominee for The Green Book), Ottawa

 

Moderated by Kevin T. Johns (Write Along Radio)

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE

TIME: 1 pm - 2 pm

Under the Papaya Tree - Remembering Vietnam

 

Vincent Lam (Giller Prize Winner - Author of the Headmaster's Wager, Random House), Toronto

Caroline Vu (finalist - Concordia University First Book Prize for Palawan Story, Deux Voiliers Publishing), Montreal

David Joiner (Lotusland, Guernica Editions - release March 2015), Saigon, Vietnam

 

Moderated by Denise Chong.

 

LOCATION: SOUTH STAGE

TIME:  2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

First in the Nation - Let Us Tell Our Stories

 

James Bartleman (former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - As Long as the Rivers Flow, Dundurn), Perth, Ontario

Jay Odjick (creator of Kagagi - the raven), Gatineau, Quebec

Suzanne Keeptwo (theatre artist, teacher of Native Studies and writer)

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE

TIME: 3 pm - 4 pm

 

 

Sketch Me In  (graphic novel panel)

 

Mark Shainblum (creator of Northguard), Ottawa

Jack Briglio (author of True Patriot), Ottawa

Janet Hetherington (Aurora Award Winner and author of Eternal Romance), Ottawa

Ronn Sutton (illustrator of Lucifer's Sword), Ottawa

 

Moderated by Kevin T. Johns

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE

TIME: 4 pm - 5 pm

With Criminal Intent

 

Brenda Chapman (Butterfly Kills, Dundurn), Ottawa

R.J. Harlick (Meg Harris Mysteries, Dundurn), Ottawa

Dave Whellams (The Drowned Man: A Peter Cammon Mystery. ECW), Ottawa

Erika Chase (The Ashton Corners Book Club Mysteries, Penguin/Berkeley Prime Crime), Ottawa

Barbara Fradkin (The Inspector Green Mysteries, Dundurn), Ottawa

Vicki Delany (the Constable Molly Smith Mystery Series and the Klondike Mystery Series, Dundurn), Prince Edward Country, Ontario

 

LOCATION: SOUTH STAGE

TIME: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Identity Kaleidoscope

 

Chris DiRaddo (The Geography of Pluto, Cormornant Books), Montreal

Michael Mirolla (Berlin, Leapfrog Press), Toronto

Martine Delvaux (Bitter Rose, Linda Leith Publishing), Montreal

 

Moderated by Menaka Raman-Wilms.

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE

TIME: 5 pm - 6 pm

In the Crosshairs - The Impact of War on Civilians

 

Alan Cumyn (twice-winner of the Ottawa Book Award - 12 novels), Ottawa

Timothy Niedermann (Wall of Dust, Deux Voiliers Publishing), Montreal

 

Moderated by Susan Delacourt (author of Shopping for Votes).

 

LOCATION: SOUTH STAGE

TIME: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Book Launches and Book Signings 

Lancements de Livres et Séances de dédicace

 

BOOK SIGNING - Peggy Blair will be signing her newest Inspector Ramirez crime novel, Hungry Ghosts, at Cake and Shake, just across from the north entrance to the Parkdale Park, on June 6 from 2 pm to 4 pm.

En Ontario, 400 ans d'écriture en français 

 

animée par Éric Charlebois – Auteur du recueil Compost-partum, 2014 ; double récipiendaire du Prix de poésie Trillium

 

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Yves Breton – Lauréat du Prix Huguette-Parent pour son récit autobiographique et historique, Drôle de vie que voilà ! Pulsions

Nicole V. Champeau – Auteure de l’essai Pointe Maligne, l’infiniment oubliée. Présence française dans le Haut-Saint-Laurent ontarien, 2009

Jean Yves Pelletier – Auteur de l’essai Le cimetière Notre-Dame d’Ottawa : cimetière historique d’importance nationale créé en 1872, 2009

Gaston Tremblay – Auteur du roman Le Grand Livre, 2012

 

LOCATION: NORTH STAGE

HEURE: 14h - 15h

L'incidence des voyages dans l'oeuvre d'un.e romancier\ière 

 

animée par Catherine Voyer-Léger  – Auteure de l’essai Métier critique : Pour une vitalité de la critique culturelle, 2014

 

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Lysette Brochu – Auteure du roman Brûlants secrets de Marianne, 2014

Jean Mohsen Fahmy – Lauréat du Prix France-Acadie 2014 pour sa série Les Chemins de la liberté

Blaise Ndala – Auteur du roman J’irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, 2014

 

LOCATION: SOUTH STAGE

HEURE: 16h30 - 17h30 

 

 

BOOK LAUNCH - Prose In The Park is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Ottawa launch of Toronto author John Delacourt's Ocular Proof, published by Seraphim Editions. John will launch Ocular Proof at the Books on Beechwood Tent, near the South Stage.

 

"Ocular Proof is an enormously courageous and imaginative undertaking, a most creative reflection on the complexity of creativity." - Modris Eksteins, author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty.

 

Guernica Editions will be launching two new novels about Vietnam at Prose in the Park.

 

David Joiner was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, but has since made his home in nearly 20 different cities across the US, Japan, and Vietnam. Lotusland is his first published novel. He has been going to Vietnam for 21 years and has lived there for more than a decade. 

 

Born in Vietnam, Caroline Vu spent her childhood in Saigon during the height of the Vietnam War. She left Saigon in 1970, moving first to the US, then to Canada. Her childhood memories of war-torn Vietnam and integration into North American life have inspired her two novels: Palawan Story (published by DVP in 2014) and That Summer in Provincetown published by Guernica Editions in 2015.

Deux Voiliers Publishing will celebrate its Third Anniversary with the Ottawa launch of five new novels at Prose in the Park

 

Join us at the Deux Voiliers Publishing Tent at Prose in the Park and meet our authors from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and British Columbia.

 

Timothy Niedermann, author of Wall of Dust, is a graduate of Kenyon College and attended the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. He also holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School. Wall of Dust, a powerful narrative of the impact of conflict on innocent civilians, is his first novel. Tim splits his time between Montreal and Connecticut.

 

Ontario crime writer, Gerry Fostaty,  was an actor working on stage and in film and television for more than twenty years. Gerry  is also the author of As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier (non-fiction) published by Goose Lane Editions. Stage Business is his first novel.

 

Sean McGinnis grew up in the libraries of the west coast, fed on a steady diet of classic detective and comic mystery fiction. He remains a herbivore and an avid reader. Stark Nakid is his first novel. He lives in Nelson, British Columbia.

 

Norman Hall was born in Yorkshire, England. As a pre-teen he moved with his family to St. Catharines, Ontario where he attended high school. As a young man he moved to Massachusetts where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees. He currently resides in Toronto. Four Stones, a Canadian spy thriller, is his first novel.

 

Jason Lawson lives and writes in New Brunswick, Canada. Jason has freelanced for numerous publications, written commentaries for CBC radio Canada and has three previous novels to his credit. "The Vision”, "Rum Runners"and "Frozen Blood." In 2013, Grana Productions bought the movie rights to "The Vision" and it is currently in development with Telefilm Canada. Frack Off, a humourous political satire, is his first novel with Deux Voiliers Publishing.

Rebecca Diem launches new Steampunk Novel at Prose in the Park

 

Toronto author Rebecca Diem will launch the second book in her steampunk adventure series, Tales of the Captain Duke: From Haven to Hell, at Prose in the Park. Just ask for Rebecca's tent at the registration table at Prose in the Park on June 6, 2015.

 

 

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Speculative Fiction

 

Moderator - Gerry Fostaty, author of Stage Business, Aurora, Ontario

 

 

 

11:00 am -  Benoit Chartier, reading from Red Nexus , Ottawa

 

11:15 am - Su Sokol, reading from Cycling to Asylum, Montreal

 

11:30 am - Martin Bueno, reading from The Rainbow Alchemist, Ottawa

 

11:45 am - Angeline Woon, reading from Underneath Her Tudung, Ottawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Humour/Crime

 

Moderator: Gerry Fostaty

 

 

 

12:00 pm - Jason Lawson, reading from Frack Off, Main River, New Brunswick

 

12:15 pm - Sean McGinnis, reading from Stark Nakid, Nelson, British Columbia

 

 

 

 

 

Thrillers/Crime/Espionage

 

Moderator: Norman Hall, author of Four Stones, Toronto

 

 

12:30 pm - Gerry Fostaty, reading from Stage Business, Aurora, Ontario

 

12:45pm  - Mike Young, reading from Kirk's Landing, Ottawa

 

1:00 pm   -  Mike Martin, reading from A Twist of Fortune, Ottawa

 

1:15 pm - Robert Barclay, reading from Ask Me about my Bombshells, Ottawa

 

1:30 pm - Russell Brooks (Russell Parkway), reading from The Demeter Code, Montreal

 

1:45 am - Norman Hall, reading from Four Stones, Toronto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literary Fiction / Books and Biscotti

 

Moderator: Qais Ghanem, President of the Canadian Authors Association - National Capital Region Chapter

 

 

2:00 pm - Licia Canton, reading from Almond Wine and Fertility, Montreal

 

2:15 pm - Lucia Cascioli, reading from Spiral, Toronto

 

Non-Fiction

 

Moderator: Qais Ghanem

 

2:30 pm - Chris Morry, reading from When the Great Red Dawn Is Shining, Ottawa

 

2:45 pm - Frank Hegyi, reading from The Stroke, Ottawa

 

 

 

Littérature francophone 

 

Animateur: Yves Turbide, Directeur Général, l'Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français (AAOF)

 

15h00  - Blaise Ndala, lecture de J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor, Ottawa

 

15h15 - Jean Mohsen Fahmy, lecture de Frères ennemis, Ottawa

 

15h30 - Paul-François Sylvestre, lecture de L’envers de la médaille, Toronto

 

15h45 - Marie-Josée Martin, lecture de Un jour, ils entendront mes silences, Ottawa

 

16h00 - Colette St-Denis, lecture de Les sillons de mon père, Ottawa

 

16h15 - Cécile Boudreau Pagé, lecture de La petite rêveuse du grenier, Orléans

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Fiction

 

 

Moderator - Mike Young

 

 

4:30 pm - Stevie Mikayne, reading from Jellicle Girl, Ottawa

 

4:45 pm - Isaac Jourden, reading from The Gravedigger's Girlfriend, Ottawa

 

5:00 pm - Andrew Forbes, reading from What You Need, Peterborough

 

 

Open Mic Stage/ Stage de Micro ouvert - 26 Authors / Écrivains
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