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Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Beyond the Pale, 250 City Centre, Bay 106
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a quiet place to read and meet other book lovers. Sign up on site.
  January 2026 Events
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        Third World Players 6:00pm    
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Culture géniale 1:00pm SOIRÉE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE: UNE PINTE OU UN VERS ? 6:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm		 The Carleton University Poetics Society, CUSA and Impact Present Verses for Change 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm		 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Qualifer 7:30pm Perfect Books Readings and Signings
Ludovic Viger Book Signing 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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Perfect Books Readings and Signings
Book Signing with Jagjeet Sharma 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Culture géniale 1:00pm
les cafés-rencontres de l’Association des auteurs et auteures de l’Outaouais 2:00pm		 Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
Book Launch: We Inherit the Fire Kagiso Lesego Molope 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm		    
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Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa Silent Book Club, Downtown 1:30pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2025/26 2:00pm
The Women in Me Artist: Sao-Mai Nguyen		 Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
New Vision for Transit Launch Party & OPEN MIC in collaboration with Free Transit Ottawa 7:30pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm   Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
Kind Space Clothing Swap and Fundraiser for the 2026 Ottawa Anarchist Book Fair 12:30pm
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Perfect Books Readings and Signings
Carter Vance Book Signing 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Bywords.ca Poetry Open Mic 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
An Evening with Cory Doctorow, presented by The Perfect Books Lecture Series and The Other Hill 7:30pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm