Friday Special Blend
Tuesday September 15th, 2020 with Susan Johnston
In conversation: Elizabeth Logue of Ottawa Riverkeeper talks about attitudes towards the river; Ottawa writer and poet Frances Boyle shares stories from her new collection, Seeking Shade

For more information about the Ottawa Riverkeeper, checkout www.ottawariverkeeper.ca. Here's a link to the study we discussed: https://www.ottawariverkeeper.ca/abacus-river-survey/ Frances Boyle is the author of Light-carved Passages (Buschek Books, 2014), Tower (Fish Gotta Swim Editions, 2018), This White Nest (Quattro Books, 2019) and Seeking Shade (Porcupine’s Quill press, 2020). She’s reading with Mississauga’s Anna Yin as part of Toronto’s Art Bar (online) Poetry Series on September 22; participating (with David Bergen and Souvankham Thammavongsa) in The Ottawa International Writers Festival Art of the Short Story conversation on October 2 (https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2020-podcast/the-art-of-the-short-story) and hosting a conversation with Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson on October 9 (https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2020-podcast/truth-as-fiction-and-fiction-as-truth). For more information, check out her website: https://www.francesboyle.com.