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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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
2024 John Newlove Poetry Award 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
City of Ottawa 2024 Poet Laureates' Announcement and Reading 7:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Amanda Earl 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
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am le Festival du livre des indépendants
Social Book Exchange 12:00pm
Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
Shannon Robinson, Caroline Adderson & Pasha Malla
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le Festival du livre des indépendants
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
2024 Lampman Award Finalists 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Invisible Prisons with Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen 7:00pm
Words & Culture 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
Silent Book Club - Vanier 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
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
happens on Oct 7 this month due to Thanksgiving
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
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CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Independent Writers Meetings 7:00pm
10 Things I Learnt on my Memoir Journey with Barbara Leimsner
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
A Most Extraordinary Ride with Marc Garneau 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Horror Author Event 1:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
SOIRÉE DE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE 6:00pm
Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Celebrates the Joy of Reading with Steve Patterson 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Maid by Nita Prose
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Marie Wilson: 6pm; Monia Mazigh, Canisia Lubrin : 8pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Ottawa International Writers Festival - Fall 2024
Kate Heartfield and JM Miro: 6pm; Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Nalo Hopkinson: 8pm
Salon du livre afro-canadien
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Christina Gabriel and Pauline Rankin present Counting Matters
Third World Players 6:00pm
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
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
Salon du livre afro-canadien
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
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
Salon du livre afro-canadien
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CKCU Funding Drive 2024
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
Salon du livre afro-canadien
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
Alone in the Dark
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Urbanism Book Club 6:15pm
Property Wrongs: The 70 Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg, by Doug Smith.
Unwinnable Peace: Untold Stories of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan, by veteran diplomat and the last Representative of Canada in Kandahar, Tim Martin 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
CKCU Funding Drive 2024
Third World Players 6:00pm
Murderino 7:00pm