Get your brew on with a three-stop literary pub crawl on Elgin Street!

Our evening begins at the Lieutenant’s Pump, then moves to The Cross, and on to Woody’s Pub. At each of our three one-hour stops, we’ll hear from an acclaimed Newfoundland writer and be invited to raise a glass to their latest work.

Kathleen Winter’s novel Annabel was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and numerous other awards. Her Arctic memoir Boundless (2014) was shortlisted for Canada's Hilary Weston and Charles Taylor non-fiction prizes and has been sold internationally. Her new novel, Lost in September, will be published in September 2017.

Robert Chafe’s long-awaited first work of fiction, Two-Man Tent, is a collection of independent short stories that borrows from nearly ever literary genre and is linked by a record of texts and emails from a real-life long-distance relationship. Chafe is also a prolific playwright, and his adaptation of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was presented at the National Arts Centre in 2017. In 2010, he won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.

Bridget Canning’s short fiction has been shortlisted for The Cuffer Prize and won awards with the BC Federation of Writers’ Literary Writes competition and the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters.  In 2015, her first novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes (then titled Impulse), received an Honourable Mention with the Atlantic Writing Competition, and in 2017 she was awarded the 2017 Cox & Palmer SPARKS Creative Writing Award.

Please note: This is a walking tour and the participating pubs are not wheelchair accessible. Drinks are not included in ticket price.

Presented in partnership with the Ottawa International Writers Festival.