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Perfect Books
Time and Place: 258A Elgin
Web: perfectbooks.ca/
readings, signings; accessibility note: 1 stair up to store; Additional accessibility via walkway from Somerset Street
August 18 - D.M. Bradford presents Ring of Dust 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
August 23 - Sarah Zahab Book Signing for Walk Your Way Fit: Your Guide to Better Health, Wellness, and Vitality 1 to 3pm
August 24 - Jolly Bimbachi and Jay Bertrand Book Signing for I Wish I Could (children’s book) 1 - 3pm
September 15 - From The Margins To The Centre: Asian Writers Reclaim The Page. Jinwoo Park, Rachel Phan, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, Wayne Ng 7-8:30pm
November 30 - Smaller Animals - signing 1-3pm
November 2025 Events
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            Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
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		 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		 CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Bywords.ca
Submissions
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
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
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm		 Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
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
Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 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
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 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
Culture géniale 1:00pm