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 Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format.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

November 2025 Events
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            Perfect Books
Sean Paul Bedell Book Signing 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Coltrane Seesequasis Book signing - The Threads of Time 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
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Slam Outaouais 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
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
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
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
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Book Launch - Christopher McPherson Screaming Obscenities at the Sky 5:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
ChromaQueer, film and arts festival
Rockcliffe Park Book Fair 2025
10 AM to 9 PM
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
ChromaQueer, film and arts festival
Rockcliffe Park Book Fair 2025
10 AM to 6 PM
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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ChromaQueer, film and arts festival
Wilde about Sappho — Celebrating Lambda Scholarship Foundation fb://event/2289331618188739 The writers headlining Wilde About Sappho in 2025 are John Barton, Donna Sharkey, H. Nigel Thomas, and Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch. Together again this November, let's honour Lambda's literary beginnings as we share our new plans for awards and scholarships to continue empowering Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities. 3-4pm. Michael V. Smith, Ottawa Soundtrack +karaoke party . Michael V. Smith's karaoke + poetry party for his new memoir Soundtrack reimagines the book launch. A hybrid book asks for a weird launch party, so we'll deliver. Music, costumes, feeeeelings, and special guests. Come join in the fun. Arts Court, 2 Daly. 7-9pm www.facebook.com/events/1468660290919738
Michael V Smith, Soundtrack: a lyric memoir and karaoke party
Rockcliffe Park Book Fair 2025
10 AM to 4 PM
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Poetry Cabaret with Billy Ray Belcourt, Canisia Lubrin and katherena vermette 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
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
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
Amanda Earl, Beast Body Epic 7:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan with Lyse Doucet 7:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Bywords.ca
Submissions
The Good Books Sale 10:00am
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
2025 Ottawa Book Awards 7:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
The Real Art of Writing Haiku with Claudia Radmore. $20. 10:30 a.m. to noon Nepean Centrepointe Library, 101 Centrepointe, Room 1B
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2025/26 2:00pm
Lifestyles of the Rich and the Shameless Artist: Tom Lips
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
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
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 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
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
We Breed Lions with Rick Westhead 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
ottawa small press book fair 12:00pm
fall edition
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Stittsville Creative Writing Group - Youth Program 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Octopus Books Glebe
Carter Vance, Smaller Animals book launch. 7-9pm
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
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
The Smiling Land with Alan Doyle 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
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
The Carleton Poetic Sociey Monthly Poetry Workshop 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Against the Grain with Terry O'Reilly 7:00pm
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
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Perfect Books
Smaller Animals - signing 1-3pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm