Calendar compliments of www.bywords.ca.

May 9, 2024

Asian Heritage Month
Web: www.asianheritagemonth.net/
a celebration of Canadians of Asian heritage
May 21 - Ming Wu, Collage Night, Digital Arts Resource Centre, 67 Nicholas 6-8pm www.facebook.com/events/s/collage-night/2435257319994074

Authors Unbound
Web: authorsunbound.ca/
signings and readings at Octopus Books and the Spaniel's Tale
May 9 - Brenda Chapman and John Delacourt, 7pm Octopus Books
May 16 - Cameron Anstee and Jay Ritchie, 6:30pm The Spaniel's Tale. RSVP: thespanielstale.ca/events/33729

Third World Players
Time and Place: Every Thursday at 6:00 pm. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: www.ckcufm.com/
readings from Third World literature

Book Launch: Canadians Who Innovate with Roseann O’Reilly Runte
Time and Place: May 9 at 7:00 pm. Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington
Web: writersfestival.org/events/spring-2024-in-person-events/book-launch-canadians-who-innovate
free. registration required

  May 2024 Events
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Ottawa International Writers Festival - Spring 2024
1:30 PM: Outspoken with Sally Armstrong 3:00 PM: Past Imperfect with with Anne Fleming, Helen Humphreys and Anne Michaels 5:00 PM: Present Tense with Dimitri Nasrallah, Blaise Ndala and Mahir Guven 7:30 PM: Closer Together with Sophie Trudeau
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
The Ottawa Municipal Liaisons of NaNoWriMo Monthly Write-In 1:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Little Italy
North Gloucester Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Sunnyside Writers Group 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Kayla Czaga, Cassidy McFadzean, Bardia Sinaee 7pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Misty Pratt, 7pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Authors Unbound
Brenda Chapman and John Delacourt, 7pm Octopus Books
Third World Players 6:00pm
Book Launch: Canadians Who Innovate with Roseann O’Reilly Runte 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Leah Lindeman, signing 6pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Rosemount Writing Collective 2:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Book signings: Max Folsom, Norm Boucher, Randolf Harrold, and Mary Jane Maffini, 1pm
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Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
The Ottawa Municipal Liaisons of NaNoWriMo Monthly Write-In 1:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Mary-Helene Pelletier, 7pm
North Gloucester Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Sunnyside Writers Group 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Susan Doherty, 7pm
Asian Heritage Month
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Perfect Books
Mike Martin, 7pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Carleton University Poetic Society Open Mic 6:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Riverbed Reading Series Season 5 7:30pm
Familial Roots: Wayne Ng, ViNa, Jean Van Loon and a screening of MITATA | GRANDFATHER BY DESMOND SIMON www.riverbedreads.ca/s5.html
Asian Heritage Month
Authors Unbound
Cameron Anstee and Jay Ritchie, 6:30pm The Spaniel's Tale. RSVP: thespanielstale.ca/events/33729
Third World Players 6:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Rosemount Writing Collective 2:00pm
Urban Legends Poetry Collective 7:00pm
ULPC Broken Mic #5 ft. MayaSpoken.Registration: bit.ly/ULPCBrokenMic5tickets
Asian Heritage Month
Book Launch: Ainalem Tebeje presents The Unknown Mother 2:00pm
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Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Patrick Grace, Ben Ladouceur, Ellen Chang-Richardson, 6pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
The Ottawa Municipal Liaisons of NaNoWriMo Monthly Write-In 1:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
North Gloucester Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Sunnyside Writers Group 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
The Other Victorians: Smut in the Long 19th Century tinyurl.com/nbr052024
Asian Heritage Month
Ming Wu, Collage Night, Digital Arts Resource Centre, 67 Nicholas 6-8pm www.facebook.com/events/s/collage-night/2435257319994074
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Jesse Keith Butler and Daniel Bezalel Richardson, 7pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
A.J. Dolman and James Moran, 7pm thespanielstale.ca/events/37476
Third World Players 6:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Bourgeons éclatés, mini festival en arts littéraires jeunesse de Gatineau
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Rosemount Writing Collective 2:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Bourgeons éclatés, mini festival en arts littéraires jeunesse de Gatineau
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists' Guild Ottawa Book Arts Show and Sale 9:00am
Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
Susan Atkinson, Matthew Tierney & Spencer Gordon
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Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
The Ottawa Municipal Liaisons of NaNoWriMo Monthly Write-In 1:00pm
(un)told 2024 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
North Gloucester Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Sunnyside Writers Group 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Mike Stewart, 7pm
Asian Heritage Month
Perfect Books
Mark Bourrie, 7pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
Third World Players 6:00pm
Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Rosemount Writing Collective 2:00pm