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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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

CKCU FM Friday Special Blend
Time and Place: Every Friday at 7:00 am.
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/158/info.html
Hosted by: Susan Johnston. Airs: Every Friday from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM

  August 2025 Events
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Nadee Fernando
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Perfect Books
Erin Brubacher and Jacob Wren Double Feature 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Indigo South Keys Signings and Readings
Lis Angus, Brenda Chapman, John Delacourt, Randall Denley, Katie Tallo. 6 - 8pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Open Mic 6:30pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
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Submissions
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Capital Pride 2025
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
312 Laurier E. 1-3:30pm
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Neil Cochrane
Big Gay Book Swap 12:00pm
The Poets' Picnic 2:00pm
Pride Night Market 5:00pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
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Capital Pride 2025
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
Young Adult Climate Fiction Panel and Readings. 1-3pm with Lea Beddia, Mary Jennifer Payne, Allister Thompson
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Chris Mustakas
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Capital Pride 2025
Perfect Books
D.M. Bradford presents Ring of Dust 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Capital Pride 2025
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
The Book Club: A Novel Bookstore" by Laurence Cossé. 6-7pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pride Poetry Reading with Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Sanita Fejzic, and Kevin Shaw 6:30pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
Capital Pride 2025
Riverbed Reading Series Season 6
s6: iteration 2 7:30pm Eva Crocker, MLA Chernoff and Dr. Androbox
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Capital Pride 2025
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
Queer Writers' Circle, 6-8:30pm 400 Sparks. Come through the side door by the parkinglot.
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
AJ Dolman, natalie hanna, Chris Johnson, Stevie Mikayne, James Moran, 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Robin Blackburn McBride, Nancy Huggett, Laurie Koensgen 7:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
The Factory Reading Series Presents Jen Currin, Jamaal Amir Akbari/JAAWORD, Shery Alexander Heinis, Pearl Pirie 7:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Capital Pride 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Capital Pride 2025
Streetmarket featuring local bookstores and authors from noon to 4pm in Ottawa's Village capitalpride.ca/2025-street-festival/
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
312 Laurier E. 1-3:30pm
Perfect Books
Sarah Zahab Book Signing for Walk Your Way Fit: Your Guide to Better Health, Wellness, and Vitality 1 to 3pm
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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Capital Pride 2025
Streetmarket featuring local bookstores and authors from noon to 4pm in Ottawa's Village capitalpride.ca/2025-street-festival/
Perfect Books
Jolly Bimbachi and Jay Bertrand Book Signing for I Wish I Could (children’s book) 1 - 3pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Ottawa Urbanism Book Club
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk by James Wilt. Ottawa Public Library, Sunnyside Branch, 1049 Bank.6pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 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
Marina Gabriela
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm