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Sumac Literary Magazine – Issue 3 Launch Party
Time and Place: April 9 at 6:30 pm. Carleton University MacOdrum Library/Book Arts Lab 1125 Colonel By Drive
Web: www.eventbrite.com/e/sumac-literary-magazine-issue-3-launch-party-tickets-1308533311359
Free. Registration requested

  April 2025 Events
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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
Sumac Literary Magazine – Issue 3 Launch Party 6:30pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Mutchmor Book Sale
Book launch: The Poilievre Project A radical blueprint for corporate rule by Martin Lukacs 5:30pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Mutchmor Book Sale
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Off the Pages: A Celebration of Banned Books 6:30pm
Can Con 2025
Mutchmor Book Sale
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Stephen Thorne: 11 am to 2pm
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Mutchmor Book Sale
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
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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
Passed the Threshold, and Back 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Octopus Books Glebe
Book Launch: A Mingled Yarn by Nick Hutchinson 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
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 Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Book signing - Crash landing - Li Charmaine Anne
#WriteOttawa 10:00am
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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
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Great Big Beautiful Life - Launch day party, Emily Henry 630 to 8pm
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
Our Power Our Planet: Working Together for the Next Generations 12:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Media Club of Ottawa Meetings 6:00pm
Kita Szpak, BAICO Publishing
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
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
Ottawa Afrocentric Book Club
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson, Room 213 3-5pm.
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
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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the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
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