Dear Friends,The purpose of this message is to invite you to a meeting to establish an organizing committee for Prose in the Park (PiP), a new initiative for a major open-air literary festival/book fair in Ottawa in 2015.

We have set up the following website to explain the proposal in detail http://deuxvoiliers.wix.com/prose-in-the-park . We invite you to read the information there. Here is, however, a summary of the project initiative.The proposed PiP venue is the Parkdale Park in Hintonburg (between Parkdale and Hamilton streets and just north of Wellington Street West). PiP will be a tented literary festival/book fair with the main authors events taking place on the covered stage in the park. The date of PiP is yet to be determined but notionally it would be on one Saturday from late Spring to the end of Summer 2015. We hope to attract 2000 book lovers, 60-70 local authors; 10-15 out-of-NCR authors (e.g., from Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, and Perth); 10-18 publishers. The Ottawa public library, NCR-based bookstores, literary online and print magazines, literary festivals, reading series and national/provincial writers organizations with members in the NCR would also be invited.

Meeting Details
Venue: Second Floor of the Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong.
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2014
Time: 3 pm

Cheers,

Ian Shaw
Outreach Director
Ottawa Independent Writers
www.oiw.ca
223 Armstrong Street

Sun Jun 08, 11:00 AM
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, ON 

Hello Fellow Fans, A few of the members of MONSFFA (Montreal Science Fiction & Fantasy Association) are going to Ottawa to visit the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum next Sunday June 8th. Perhaps some of you would like to join?

Organized by Sylvain St-Pierre (MONSFFA) & Diane Bruce (OSFS)

Sunday, June 8, 2014, 11:00 AM

By Ward Market area, Ottawa, ON (edit map)

The Bards of the Byward will be back in the Market on Sunday June 8.
Our stall is in front of the EQ3 furniture store on George St. across from the Freiman Mall entrance to the Bay store.

Mike Young, Ian Shaw, Martin Buneo, Bob Barclay and Alex Binkley will be glad to sell you books, answer questions or engage in witty conversation. The buskers near us are usually entertaining.
We will return for our final show of the month on June 22. Other events are under development. As well, Martin, Bob and Alex will be at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair at the Jock Purcell Centre on Saturday the 7th.

Sat Jun 07, 10:00 AM
Jock Purcell Community Centre, Elgin St
320 Jock Purcell Lane join off Elgin St., Ottawa, ON

There’s a variety of book sellers at this event. There’s parking in the area and several bus lines run up and down Elgin. Alex will have a table for selling his science fiction book Humanity’s Saving Grace. Come by and say hello.
Hosted by: Alex Binkley

Alex will be doing a book signing for his science fiction novel Humanity’s Saving Grace at Brittons, 846 Bank St, from 1 pm to 3 pm on Saturday May 10. He will have Chapter 1 of the sequel available for you to read.