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Monthly online magazine featuring emerging and established poets residing, studying or working in Ottawa. Please submit poems and events by the 15th of each month. Events calendars distributed monthly. Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format. Please no PDFS. Read guidelines on site.

October 2024 Events
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    City of Ottawa Poets Laureate Activity
reading following John Newlove Poetry Award, Club Saw, 67 Nicholas, 7:30pm writersfestival.org/events/fall-2024-in-person-events/john-newlove-poetry-awards-and-the-ottawa-poets-laureate
2024 John Newlove Poetry Award 6:30pm
The Octopus Books Reading Club 7:00pm
City of Ottawa 2024 Poet Laureates' Announcement and Reading 7:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Amanda Earl, Sandra Ridley and Christine McNair 8:30pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Book Launch: From Havana to Hollywood by Philip Kaisary 6:00pm
Carleton University Poetic Society Open Mic 6:00pm
sign up sheet link forthcoming
Third World Players 6:00pm
Good Prospects Brewing Company Open Mic 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
Shannon Robinson, Caroline Adderson & Pasha Malla
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am Silent Book Club Ottawa - Little Italy
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Invisible Prisons with Lisa Moore 7:00pm
Invisible Prisons with Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen 7:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Writing Women into History 5:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Book Launch: Monia Mazigh presents Farida 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
In Winter I Get Up at Night with Jane Urquhart 7:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Book Launch: Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am  
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Wydrsmyth Press Presents A Hallow Zine Fair 10:00am
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
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Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata
Ottawa Independent Writers Meetings 7:00pm
10 Things I Learnt on my Memoir Journey with Barbara Leimsner
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Ottawa Trans Library Collaborative Zine Making 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
A Most Extraordinary Ride with Marc Garneau 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am  
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Book launch - Murder in Highbury, by Vanessa Kelly 6:30 to 8:30pm
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Maid by Nita Prose
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Marie Wilson: 6pm; Monia Mazigh, Canisia Lubrin and katherena vermette: 8pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Kate Heartfield and JM Miro: 6pm; Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Nalo Hopkinson: 8pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Richard Van Camp: 12pm; David O’Meara, Jenny Haysom and Marissa Stapley: 6pm; Dina Del Bucchia, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Matthew Walsh and Shani Mootoo; 8pm
Rockcliff Park Book Fair
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Diana Beresford-Kroeger: 11:30am; Bob McDonald: 1pm; Robert J. Sawyer and Madeline Ashby: 2:30pm; Lynne Kutsukake and Sarah Henstra: 4pm; Hannah Mary McKinnon and Shari Lapena: 5.30pm; Jennifer Whiteford, Amy Lea and Julia McKay: 7pm; Christophe Lebold featuring Michael Dubue and Rebecca Noelle: 8:30pm
Rockcliff Park Book Fair
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Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
General Roméo Dallaire: 11:30am; Ken McGoogan: 1pm; Tim Cook and Nahlah Ayed: 2:30pm; Elizabeth Renzetti: 4pm; Dionne Brand: 5:30pm; Isabella Hammad: 7pm; Kagiso Lesego Molope, Jordan Abel and Saeed Teebi: 8:30pm
Rockcliff Park Book Fair
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm   CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm