Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar

1242 Wellington St. West
Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3A4
Canada

(613) 722-1265; infocollected-works.com

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Web site: http://collected-works.com

Events: http://collected-works.com/pages… (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

Description: An independent bookstore in Westboro (Ottawa - West) which as the name indicates also has a coffee bar. They also have a venue for exhibitions by local artists, for readings by writers, for book club discussions and writer's workshops.

Store Hours (as of 3/8/08):

Monday - Saturday 08:00 to 21:00
Sunday 10:00 to 18:00

Added by: jordan7hm. Contacted: Not contacted. Venue ID: 15347

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personal opinion:
- The hours are erratic (though they appear to currently be open until 9, I have tried to go several times at 6:30pm and seen them closed... the entire neighbourhood shuts down at 6pm except on Thursdays)
- selection is nothing special (nothing you can't find at indigo stores)
- parking is a hassle during the winter
- the store itself is very nice
- the staff are nice

Not my favorite, but if I lived in walking distance I would frequent it. One of the better independents certainly.

March 2008 by jordan7hm

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Past events

Arc Poetry Magazine presents the Lampman-Scott Award reading at Collected Works (September 10 at 7:30pm)

The Arc Poetry Society, in conjunction with the City of Ottawa and the Duncan Campbell Scott Foundation, presents the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry. This award honours the poetry and friendship of Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott. Their literary friendship helped foster Ottawa’s now-thriving ... (more)and diverse literary community. The Lampman-Scott award recognizes an outstanding book of English-language poetry by an author living in the National Capital Region. The announcement of the winner of this $1,500 prize will take place in conjunction with the Ottawa Book Awards: October 20, 8 p.m. at Library and Archives Canada. This year's nominees are: Daughters of Men by Brenda Leifso, Aperture by Blaine Marchand, The Local Cluster by Colin Morton, Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O’Meara, The Luskville Reductions by Monty Reid, and The Land of Serendipity by Asoka Weerasinghe. The evening will feature readings from the nominated books.

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Launch for Globetrotter and Hitler's Children by Amatoritsero Ede at Collected Works (September 12 at 7:00pm)

Globetrotter & Hitler's Children is a book of two sequences, melded beautifully and seamlessly, both of which are the shape of the poet's consciousness and body in relation to space and place. Globetrotter is an immigrant's paean to the city of Toronto, while Hitler's Children is a poet's struggle with ... (more)race, otherness, and Germany in the spirit of witness, passion, humor, melancholy, and understanding. Amatoritsero Ede, born in Nigeria, was a Hindu monk with the Hare Krishna movement; he has worked as a book editor with a major Nigerian publisher, Spectrum Books, and was the 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is the winner the Association of Nigerian Authors' (ANA) Poetry Competition's 1993 runner-up prize, the 1998 ANA Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature, and second place in the 2004 May Ayim Award: International Black German Literary Prize. His writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, including: TOK 1: Writing the New Toronto, Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Nigerian Writing, The Fate of Vultures: BBC Prize-Winning Poetry, and Voices from the Fringe: An ANA Anthology of New Nigerian Poetry. Currently, he is editor of Gboungboun Magazine, managing editor of PONAL Quarterly Forum of the Carleton-affiliated Project on New African Literatures, and publisher and managing editor of the Maple Tree Literary Supplement

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Memorial University Alumni Association presents Wayne Johnston at Collected Works (ticketed event) (September 15 at 7:30pm)

Wayne Johnston reads from The Custodian of Paradise.

Alumni Affairs and Development at Memorial University is extremely excited to present Wayne Johnston for the September 2009 installation of its ongoing speaker series. Wayne Johnston is a proud alumnus and another Memorial University success story. This session will be a compelling evening of storytelling ... (more)and discussion as Wayne reads from his newest work, The Custodian of Paradise. This novel marks the return of Sheilagh Fielding from his bestselling novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Admission is $10. To purchase tickets, please call Alumni Affairs and Development at Memorial University toll free at 1-877-700-4081 or e-mail rsvpalumni@mun.ca.

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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer reads "Perfecting" at Collected Works (October 1 at 7:30pm)

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer reads from Perfecting.

With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment of his own damaged soul. Then his lover, Martha, finds his gun and goes south to discover the truth, whatever ... (more)that might be. Curtis sets out to bring her back, lest the Family fall apart. In the half-light of a nursing home sits Hollis, dragon lord of a lost Mormon line, who has anointed Curtis, damned him, and now awaits his return. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's writing is full of dark humour and razor-sharp insight. Catching human fallibility head-on, she demands examination, confrontation, and a reckoning of pain with beauty. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the former fiction editor of The Literary Review of Canada, and has also worked as a tree-planter, a lumberjack, and a baker. Her reviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Toronto Star and The National Post. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto, and is the Magazine Editor for Bookninja.com. www.kathrynkuitenbrouwer.com

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Lesley Crewe reads at Collected Works (October 6 at 7:30pm)

Lesley Crewe reads from Hit and Mrs.: A Novel.

Crewe, the bestselling author of Ava Comes Home, Shoot Me and Relative Happiness, reads from her new book, Hit and Mrs, a wonderful romp about Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta, lifelong friends that live in Montreal. This year they’re all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York ... (more)together (courtesy of Linda’s philandering husband’s Visa Platinum). But at the LaGuardia airport washroom, Bette accidentally switches bags with a young mother who’s actually smuggling diamonds for the mob, and things start going terribly wrong. Lesley Crewe is the author of Relative Happiness, which was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. Previously a freelance writer and columnist for Cape Bretoner Magazine, she currently writes a column for Cahoots online magazine. Born in Montreal, Lesley now lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. To sample her brand of humour, and a sense of what to expect at the event, you can read her advice on how to do an instore signing .

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Launch for In the Wake of Loss by Sheila James (October 29 at 7:30pm)

Sheila James promotes In the Wake of Loss.

This debut collection of short stories focuses on the conflicts and challenges experienced by diasporic South Asian characters who struggle to face truths about intimate relationships. They include characters include Rajani, a mail-order-bride who opens a lingerie shop only to find herself and her sister ... (more)implicated in the trial of a serial killer; Nilika, an elderly and lower-caste woman, living in poverty with her two sons, one cruel, the other kind; Miriam, a Muslim lesbian who escapes her family and the feminist community and sets up a bed and breakfast with her lover; and Rajan, a refugee and former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who concocts a playboy image to escape memories of the brutal war in Sri Lanka. Sheila James was born in the UK, grew up in Nova Scotia and presently lives in Ottawa. She has trained in the arts in India, England and Canada and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia. Sheila has worked as a writer, director and performer in music, theatre and media arts. Her videos, including the award winning Unmapping Desire, have been screened extensively around the world. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Canadian anthologies and journals.

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Arthur Black reads at Collected Works (November 3 at 7:30pm)

Arthur Black reads from Black is the New Green.

Arthur Black's latest trademark storytelling! Those who have been following Arthur Black's award-winning publishing ventures over the past few years, or remember him from his long-running CBC radio show, Basic Black, will have come to appreciate the hilarious and unique vision of the world through the ... (more)eyes of Canada's Blackest humourist. In Black is the New Green, he offers some words of advice on eating a teaspoonful a day of good healthy soil for longevity and explores the trend towards uber-expensive high fashion grocery bags. You’ll also find all you could ever want to know about men's purses, how a chicken upstaged Columbus, social suicide by motor scooter—there's even a sprinkling of flowered urinals. Arthur Black's growing collection of award-winning books include Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales (Stoddart Publishing) and Black in the Saddle Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. He hosted CBC Radio One's Basic Black program from 1983 until 2002, while also using his comedic talents to host Life Television Network's Weird Homes and Weird Wheels. His recently released audio CD, Planet Salt Spring, features tales from his adopted home of Salt Spring Island, BC Canada.

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Kate Hall and Johanna Skibsruds read at Collected Works (November 17 at 7:30pm)

Kate Hall & Johanna Skibsruds reads from The Certainty Dream & The Sentimentalists.

Kate Hall's poems have appeared in many journals, including The Colorado Review, jubilat, Swerve, The Denver Quarterly, Open City, LIT and Boston Review. She has won the Irving Layton Award and the David McKeen Award and travelled on the storied Wave Books poetry bus tour in 2006. She was co-editor of ... (more)the Delirium Press chapbooks and co-hosted the Departure Reading Series in Montreal, where she now lives and teaches at McGill University. Her most recent book of poetry, The Certainty Dream, is from Coach House Books. Johanna' Skibsruds first poetry collection, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys, was published last spring by Gaspereau Press and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Originally from Scotsburn, Nova Scotia, She currently lives in Montreal, where she is working on her Ph.D. The Sentimentalists is her first novel, published by Gaspereau Press.

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