Calendar compliments of www.bywords.ca.

April 15, 2025
Bywords.ca - Submissions
Web: www.bywords.ca
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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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.
Octopus Books Glebe
Time and Place: 116 Third
Web: octopusbooks.ca/events
Email: events@octopusbooks.ca
register to confirm attendance. Masking is encouraged to help protect the health of immunocompromised people.
April 8 - The Octopus Books Reading Club 7pm
April 15 - Shannon Arntfield and Christine McNair. 7pm
April 22 - Book Launch: My Thievery of the People by Leila Marshy 7pm
May 29 - Author Talk: Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization with Vanessa Rosa 7pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 9:30 am. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/640/info.html
Words and Culture weaves conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists. Airs: Every Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Pen and Paper Writer's Group
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 5:55 pm. Ottawa Public Library, Rideau Branch, 377 Rideau
Web: biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/pen-and-paper-writers-group-1
RPL Acoustic Music Jam
Time and Place: 6:00 pm. Rockcliffe Public Library, 380 Springfield Road
Email: rplacousticmusicclub@gmail.com
poetry and spoken word welcome
April 15 -
June 10 -
Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden with Ruthanna Emrys
Time and Place: April 15 at 7:00 pm. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Room 14.
Web: writersfestival.org/events/spring-20251/carleton-university-presents-a-half-built-garden
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. 3 Brasseurs, 565 Kanata Ave
Web: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/silent-book-club-ottawa/silent-book-club-ottawa-chapter-kanata
an opportunity to meet fellow book lovers and read quietly together. Sign up on site.
Words & Culture
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 7:00 pm. CHUO 89.1 FM
Web: Chuo.fm/show/words-and-culture-indigenous/
Conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists.
  April 2025 Events
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
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    CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Sucker Punch with Scaachi Koul 7:00pm
Capstone Reading 7:30pm		 Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Urban Legends Poetry Collective and The Other Hill for Scribblin’ in the Margins: Beyond the Binary, an open mic event featuring Charlie Petch 7:00pm		 The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Beth Granger, Born and Razed, Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle, 12-3pm
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Chris Smith: 11 am to 2pm
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Perfect Books Presents: Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre with Mark Bourrie 7:00pm
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Indigo South Keys Signings and Readings
Marko Arizanovic, Julie E. Czerneda, Kate Heartfield, Kevin Hearne, and James W. Lackie. Meet and Greet: 12-3pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Kate Cole: 11 am to 2pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Common House Issue 5 Launch Party 7:00pm		 Perfect Books
Book Launch for At the Trough by Laurent Carbonneau 7-8:30ppm
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
Octopus Books Glebe
The Octopus Books Reading Club 7pm
Perfect Books
Born and Razed Book Launch -Beth Granger 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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		 MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm		 Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Can Con 2025
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Stephen Thorne: 11 am to 2pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm		 Bywords.ca
Submissions
Octopus Books Glebe
Shannon Arntfield and Christine McNair. 7pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
RPL Acoustic Music Jam 6:00pm
Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden with Ruthanna Emrys 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
House of Anansi Poetry Bash with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie. 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm		 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		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am  
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Octopus Books Glebe
Book Launch: My Thievery of the People by Leila Marshy 7pm
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
Ben Ladouceur: Book Launch, I Remember Lights 7:30pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Deborah-Anne Tunney, Poetry Workshop: Crafting Poems for Publication
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm		 Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Ottawa Afrocentric Book Club
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson, Room 213 3-5pm.
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Paige Prangley: 11am to 2pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Laiza Millan, 11am to 2pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Amanda Earl, Margo La Pierre, Lisa Richter and Chuqiao Lang 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm