Calendar compliments of www.bywords.ca.

September 27, 2026
Octopus Books Readings and Signings
Time and Place: 116 Third
Web: octopusbooks.ca/events
September 24 - Book Launch | Marie-Claire McKelvey presents The Year my Head Exploded Tuesday Nov 24th, 2026 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
September 27 - Whale Fall Signing | Elysia Rourke presents Whale Fall 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
October 15 - Poetry Launch | Deborah Harriet presents Love, Death and Poetry 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
October 24 - Book signing The Politics of Lonely Why Is Friendship So Hard? 11am to 1pm
Perfect Books Readings and Signings
Time and Place: 258A Elgin
Web: https://perfectbooks.ca/events
small step up. ramp on Somerset by Scrimms.
September 27 - Book Signing with Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
September 29 - LiterAsian 2026 Ottawa, Re-Generation: Carrying Memory, Crafting Story: LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA, CHUQIAO YANG, WILEY WEI-CHIUN HO, JAMIE CHAI YUN LIEW 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Registration for this event is required. Link is on the Perfect Books site.
October 3 - Book Signing with Jordan Tannahil 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
October 14 - Margo MacDonald launches A Curious Presence 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
October 18 - Book Signing with Sonali Menezes 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
October 21 - Garth Martens Book Launchm with rob mclennann, Margo LaPierre and Jennifer Baker 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
October 24 - Piers Hemmingsen Book Signing 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
October 27 - Leigh Kotsilidis Book Launch with nita Lahey and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
October 28 - A Celebration of Barochois by Cynthia French with Frances Boyle, Claudia Coutu Radmore, and Deborah Anne Tunney, and L.M. Rochefort. 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Perfect Books
October 31 - Halloween Book Signing with Jennifer Chevalier, author of The Winter Witch 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
November 2 - Manahil Bandukwala, Amanda Earl, Jennifer Lovegrove 7pm to 8:30pm.
November 4 - Allan Briesmaster launches Elsewise with Daniel Scott. 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
November 25 - Robin Blackburn McBride and Frances Boyle 7 to 8:30pm
An Indian Morning
Time and Place: Every Sunday at 10:00 am. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/30/info.html
An Indian Morning celebrates not only the music of India but equally its various arts and artisans, poets and potters, kings and patriots.
Culture géniale
Time and Place: Every Sunday at 1:00 pm. unique 94.5 fm
Web: uniquefm.ca/emission-culture-geniale
La culture est la possibilité même de créer, de renouveler et de partager des valeurs. Culture géniale est une émission hebdomadaire animée par Jean-Paul Moreau qui explore le monde du cinéma, de la littérature, des arts vivants, et bien plus encore.
(un)told - Ottawa StoryTellers
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Room 14.
Web: www.ottawastorytellers.ca/untold
tickets are free but spaces are limited. tickets on site
Art-N-Tell
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Pour Boy, 495 Somerset W.
if you made it, bring it: It’s your chance to share whatever you’ve been creating—whether it’s polished and ready or still in progress. Paintings, poems, songs, sketches, fashion, whatever you’re working on—we want to see it! Not ready to share yet? Come hang out and support your fellow artists.a free event,
An Evening with David Sedaris
Time and Place: September 27 at 8:00 pm. National Arts Centre, Southam Hall, 1 Elgin Street
Web: nac-cna.ca/en/event/40918
details and ticket info on NAC site.
  September 2026 Events
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Books on Tap 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Chris Johnson: after the woods, a poetry launch 3:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
Alien Mating Rituals		 Words and Culture 10:00am
For the Long Haul – A book launch with Chris Dixon 6:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Readings at Library and Archives Canada
Book Launch: Seagoing Women: At Work by Sara Donnelly 7pm
The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Mekyle Ali Qadir and Fareh Malik: joint poetry reading 6:00pm
Getting Away with Murder with Shari Lapena 6:30pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Playing the Changes with Colin James 8:00pm		 Octopus Books Readings and Signings
Book Launch | Marie-Claire McKelvey presents The Year my Head Exploded Tuesday Nov 24th, 2026 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Readings at Library and Archives Canada
Mes beaux Rimbaud de Michèle Vinet 19h
Josh Greenberg: Book Launch: he Record Keepers: Digging for Stories in Canada’s Record Stores 5:00pm
Third World Players Present 6:00pm
Altared's Open Mic 7:30pm
Eyob Tzu
Nostalgica Pub Open Mic 8:00pm		 Readings, Signings and Book Club Meetings at Evermore Books
Evermore after dark: 7 to 8:30pm
The Spaniel's Tale Readings and Signings
Book Launch - Fret by Nadia Bozak 7:30 - 9:30pm
Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Book launch: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival 6:00pm		 In Conversation with Jay Odjick
Love Lyla Books Readings and Signings
Urdu Storytime with Amma Ki Library 11 am to 1pm
Nuit blanche Ottawa
Readings, Signings and Book Club Meetings at Evermore Books
Rochelle Wolf Book Signing with Special Guest Ruby Barrett 6pm
Agrippa with Robert Harris 7:00pm
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Octopus Books Readings and Signings
Whale Fall Signing | Elysia Rourke presents Whale Fall 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Perfect Books Readings and Signings
Book Signing with Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Art-N-Tell 7:00pm
An Evening with David Sedaris 8:00pm		 Ottawa Urbanism Book Club 6:15pm
Walkable City by Jeff Speck
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Taipei Story with R.F. Kuang 7:00pm
Taipei Story with R.F. Kuang 7:00pm		 Perfect Books Readings and Signings
LiterAsian 2026 Ottawa, Re-Generation: Carrying Memory, Crafting Story: LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA, CHUQIAO YANG, WILEY WEI-CHIUN HO, JAMIE CHAI YUN LIEW 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Registration for this event is required. Link is on the Perfect Books site.
Readings at Library and Archives Canada
Book launch—Au nord de nulle part : Le chant d’une commissaire à la vérité et à la réconciliation by Marie Wilson 18h - 20h
Words and Culture 10:00am
Ruby Tuesday Chapbook Launch 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 National Day for Truth and Reconcilliation and Orange Shirt Day – Every Child Matters
The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Women, Truth, and Reconciliation with Tanya Talaga and Rose LeMay 5:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm