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Arc Poetry Magazine 2025 Archibald Lampman Award
Time and Place: October 14 at 8:00 pm. Club Saw, 67 Nicholas
Web: writersfestival.org/events/fall-2025/bywords-john-newlove-poetry-awards

October 2025 Events
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      Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
The Carleton Poetic Society Open Mic at Oat Couture's Night Oat 7:00pm
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Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm Nuit blanche dans le Vieux-Hull 8:00pm
Nuit blanche dans le Vieux-Hull 8:00pm
The Byward Market in Literature, a walk with Susan Johnston 11:00am
Book Launch: Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees 2:00pm
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Sue Davidson, Dread Comes At Daybreak 4:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
Book Launch: Ann Cavlovic, Count on Me 6:30pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Book Launch: A Plea to Our Mother by Kathleen Rooney. 4:00pm
Vibrations from Gaza: Screening, talk and book launch 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
The Stories That Shape Us: Open Mic Poetry Reading 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Book Speed Dating 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Forensic Field Techniques for Human Remains by Christopher Courtin
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia with Merlyna Lim octopusbooks.ca/events/3604620251009
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
  Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
les cafés-rencontres de l’Association des auteurs et auteures de l’Outaouais 2:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Bywords.ca 2025 John Newlove Poetry Award 6:30pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Domina Eliahou and Stuart Ross 7:30pm
Arc Poetry Magazine 2025 Archibald Lampman Award 8:00pm
Book launch of Ajar by Margo LaPierre 8:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
2025-2026 Munro Beattie Lecture with Ivan Coyote 7:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Webinar: Book Bones with Susan Forest: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Book Launch of A Capital Mystery, featuring 21 stories set in Ottawa by 21 local authors. 6:00pm
Ottawa Design Club: Pivotal Moments - Special Zine Edition Launch Event 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Improvised Introductions Jaap Blonk (voice) and Jesse Stewart (percussion) 8:30pm
  Jagjeet Sharma - Author Signings and readings 12:00pm
Indigo Gloucester, 2401 City Park Drive. Silent Ripples signing noon to 3pm
Hashem Abdi, When The Last Tree Falls 4:00pm
Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
Zane Koss and rob mclennan
Catherine Allard, Christine Kifoil, Nshannacappo 7:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Author Talk | Madelaine Drohan on Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada 5:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Come Home to Poetry- Ottawa launch of Susan Wismer’s poetry book, Hag Dances, with guest poet, Sheila Steward, reading from her collection, If I Write About My Father. 7:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2025/26 2:00pm
Bottle Lamp Tales Artist: Jan Blake 7:30pm
Signing | James Duthie presents Certified Beauties 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Book Launch | Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel by Muhannad Ayyash 12:00pm
Conservation in Fiction Panel Discussion 7:00pm
Jagjeet Sharma - Author Signings and readings 12:00pm
Indigo Rideau, 50 Rideau Street Silent Ripples signing noon to 3pm
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Canadian Poets Concert: the poetry of Adele Graf 3:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
October: Scary Tales, Ghosts in the Attic
Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Bob Joseph, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act. 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Book Launch | The Cheese Cure by Michael Finnerty 7:00pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
uOpoetry x RISE x PRIDE Open Mic 6:00pm
Final Orbit with Chris Hadfield 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Policing Black Lives (2nd ed) - Book launch with Robyn Maynard 7:00pm
Anina's Cafe Open Mic 7:30pm
LANCEMENT | RÉORIGINE DES ESPÈCES | OTTAWA 5:30pm
Author Talk | Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism 6:00pm
The Carleton University Poetic Society Dead Poet Society Event 6:00pm
The 2025 CBC Massey Lectures Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World with Alex Neve 7:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Ajar Presents: Halloween 7:00pm