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September 15, 2025

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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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

Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant
Time and Place: 1:00 pm. Ottawa Public Library, Nepean Centrepointe Branch, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Room 1B
Web: booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/indie-author-group
discussion on the indie publishing process. drop in program. 150 minutes
October 27 -
November 24 -
December 8 -

Art House Cafe Open Mic
Time and Place: Every Monday at 7:00 pm. 555 Somerset W
musicians, vocalists, poets, and comedians. sign up in advance on site. stairs leading up to cafe and down to open mic area. sign up opens at 6:30pm

Namaashoum
Time and Place: Every Monday at 7:00 pm. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/53/info.html
Promoting the Persian culture, especially its music and literature. Hosted by: Mehdi Fallahi

September 2025 Events
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  Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Greely Writing Group 6:30pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing with Susan Aglukark 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Thank You for Asking, featuring Brandon Wint, May Spoken and Amanda Lowe 7:00pm
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
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Slam Outaouais 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Elle Wither
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Valentine in Montreal with Arizona O’Neill and Heather O’Neill 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Greely Writing Group 6:30pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Richard Makinen
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
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Submissions
Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
A Truce That Is Not Peace with Miriam Toews 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
Presses uOttawa Press Author Talks and Launches
Book Launch : Migration et racialisation en temps de « crise » | Social Sciences Building (FSS4006), campus de l’Université d’Ottawa
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Greely Writing Group 6:30pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Webinar: Medical Errors 101 – a physician’s tips on getting medicine right in your stories Presenter: Dr. Melissa “Yi” Yuan-Innes 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Sandy Hudson and Nora Loreto, Challenging Power: Corporate Control, Policing, and the Price of Inequality 8:00pm
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Open Pages Queer Writers Circle 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Fifteen Dogs Unleashed, From Page to Stage: A Creative Discussion 6:00pm
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Barrie Finlay
Open Pages Book Club / Reading Club 1:00pm
Dagne Forrestt, Nancy Hugget, Susan Robertson 2:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance with David Moscrop, Carol Off and Elamin Abdelmahmoud 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Arc Poetry Magazine 2025 Archibald Lampman Award Finalists Reading 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
The Carleton Poetic Society Outdoor Open Mic 5:30pm
sign up here: tinyurl.com/carletonopenmicsept24
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Greely Writing Group 6:30pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Jour des Franco-Ontarien/ne/s chez l'hôtel de ville d'Ottawa 8:30am
Writing Circle 3:00pm
The Carleton Poetic Sociey Monthly Poetry Workshop 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Le Cinq-Zéro, Une célébration du le cinquantenaire du drapeau franco-ontarien 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
John Egan
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Kate Cole
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
A.J. Dolman, Amanda Earl, James K. Moran 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
September: Lessons Learned, School Daze
The Paris Express with Emma Donoghue 7:00pm
The Factory Reading Series Presents nathanael o'reilly, ben ladouceur + michael lithgow 7:30pm
Club de lecture francophone de BD 3:00pm
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Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Book Launch: Judy Darcy presents Leading from the Heart 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation / Orange Shirt Day 2025
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm