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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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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.

February 2025 Events
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            Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling, Ottawa Public Library, Emerald Plaza Boardroom, 1547 Merrivale. 3:30pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/traditional-storytelling
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Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Memorial for Elisabeth Harvor 12:30pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Black History Month 2025
OmiSoore Dryden presents Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation 2:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
2024-2025 Munro Beattie Lecture with Ann-Marie MacDonald 7:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling, Ottawa Public Library, Hazeldean Branch, 50 Castlefrank Rd, 3:45pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/traditional-storytelling-0. Mélodie Joseph, Afrofuturism. La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins - 333 King Edward 7pm.
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Literary Futures Guest Lecture Series 4:00pm
Adeline Johns-Putra - “Apocalypse Now and Then, Here and There: Comparative Cultural Histories of Climate”
Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling with Jacqui Du Toit, OPL Blackburn Hamlet, 199 Glen Park. 2:30pm
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Black History Month 2025
Character Development Workshop with Jacqui Du Toit, OPL Carlingwood, 281 Woodroffe. 3:30pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/character-development-workshop
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Book Launch for Barbara Fradkin's Shipwrecked Souls 3:00pm
Black History Month 2025
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
In Our Tongues: Nonso Morah, Grey Brisson, Darby Bradford, and Dawn Xanklin, Saw Gallery, 67 Nicholas. 7-9pm PWYC. Registration: www.inourtongues.ca/upcoming-gathering
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Black History Month 2025
Bywords.ca
Submissions
Ksenija Spasic, Sneha Madhavan-Reese and Ellen Chang Richardson. 4:00pm
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Black History Month 2025
Weather
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
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Namaashoum 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
Riot Grrrlz Don't [heart emoji] You
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Riverbed Reading Series Season 5 7:30pm
Erín Moure, Dupil Collective, Melissa Davidson
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
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Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Book Fair at Robert Plante Greenhouses 10:00am
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2024/2025 2:00pm
Whispers from Tradition: Nigeria’s Untold Legends Explore Nigeria’s untold legends with Alaukwu Anozie and Uchechi Ogbonna
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Join the Digital Day of Action www.freedomtoread.ca/newsbytes/join-the-digital-day-of-action-on-monday-february-24/
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
Happiness Book Walk Club: Happiness Habits 613 x Ottawa Public Library 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Carleton University PhD Speaker Series
Dr. Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Experimental Poetry and the Aesthetics of Criticism. 4-6pm
Freedom to Read Week
Mathilde Barraband, Préserver la liberté intellectuelle en bibliothèque, un travail d’équilibriste; Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 395, rue Wellington. 19h. Gratuit. Reserver votre place: tinyurl.com/Barraband
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Amie Wright, The Freedom to Read Graphically: A (Brief) History of Comics Censorship. Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Road. Free. Reservations: tinyurl.com/comicsbayview
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance
Third World Players 6:00pm
Kinks and Coffee: Smutty Storytelling 7:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
University of Ottawa Undergraduate English Students Association Clothing, Food and Book Drive 5:00pm