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| October 2025 Events | |
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| Can*Con, Ottawa's Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Convention, Fall 2025 Can Con 2025 in person The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings Author Discussion - Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprising by Christopher B Zeichmann - 6:30 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 |
Perfect Books Premee Mohamed launch for The First Thousand Trees 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm Namaashoum 7:00pm |
Perfect Books Double Book launch with Katie Welch and James Cairns 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm Author Talk | Madelaine Drohan on Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada 5:00pm Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm The Greenhouse 6:30pm Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm Words & Culture 7:00pm Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2025 6:30 PM On Wholeness with Quill Christie-Peters. 8:00 PM The Trial of Katterfelto with Michael Redhill CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am Media Club of Ottawa Meetings 5:00pm SPEAKER: Jennifer Swanson David, former APTN employee. TOPIC: Her current role with NVision and writing her book about APTN, called Original People. WHERE: Wise Town Cafe, 329A Elgin Street, near Waverley. TIME: 6p.m.-8p.m. Asian Sounds 6:00pm Come Home to Poetry- Ottawa launch of Susan Wismer’s poetry book, Hag Dances, with guest poet, Sheila Steward, reading from her collection, If I Write About My Father. 7:00pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm |
Indigo Pinecrest Readings and Signings Book launch: A Capital Mystery 7pm Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2025 6:30 PM On the Ground with Brian Stewart. 8:00 PM What Dreams May Come with Sara Peters and Mona Awad Soloway JCC Jewish Book Festival Ilan Stavans – The Seventh Heaven 7pm Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2025/26 2:00pm Bottle Lamp Tales Artist: Jan Blake 7:30pm Signing | James Duthie presents Certified Beauties 6:00pm Third World Players 6:00pm CBC All in A Day Book Club 6:30pm Wayne Ng 's "Johnny Delivers", Ottawa Technical Secondary School, 485 Donald. 6:30pm to attend the IN PERSON extravaganza at Ottawa Technical Secondary School, click here: www.eventbrite.com/e/all-in-a-day-book-club-in-person-wayne-ng-s-johnny-delivers-tickets-1783261024729?aff=oddtdtcreator to attend VIRTUALLY from the comfort of your own home, click here: www.eventbrite.com/e/all-in-a-day-book-club-virtual-wayne-ngs-johnny-delivers-tickets-1783352057009?aff=oddtdtcreator Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Octopus Books Glebe Book Launch | Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2025 6:30 PM One Life To Live with Marc Bendavid, Susie Taylor and Shani Mootoo 8:00 PM Playlist with Ivan Coyote Soloway JCC Jewish Book Festival Shabbat Baby Story Time Tamara Levine – The Warmest Blanket in the World 10:30am. Angela Mackay – Worldly Views: One Woman’s Collection of True Short Stories from Around the World 10:30am. Erik H. Marks – Rescuing Ethan and Gabe: The Power of One Stable and Committed Relationship 12:30pm. Daniel Goodwin – The Making of Jewish Identity in the Works of Daniel Goodwin 2pm. Sororités noires du nouveau millénaire Lettres à des soeurs littéraires Salon du livre afro-canadien, Quatrième salle du Centre national des arts, 1 rue Elgin. 20h CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Book Launch | Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel by Muhannad Ayyash 12:00pm Conservation in Fiction Panel Discussion 7:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2025 11:30 AM The Explorer's Gene with Alex Hutchinson. 1:00 PM John Candy: A Life in Comedy with Paul Myers. 2:30 PM The Science of Pets with Jay Ingram. 4:00 PM More than Human with Kendra Coulter, Thomas Wharton and Sibylle Grimbert. 6:00 PM Displaced with Zeina Sleiman, Aaron Kreuter and Brian Thomas Isaac. 8:00 PM Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It with Cory Doctorow. Soloway JCC Jewish Book Festival Sororités noires du nouveau millénaire Lettres à des soeurs littéraires Cabaret La Basoche, 120, rue Principale, Gatineau, QC. 11h Jane's Walk: Hintonburg & Wellington West in Literature with Susan Johnston 9:30am Antiquarian Book Fair 10:00am Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am Jagjeet Sharma - Author Signings and readings 12:00pm Indigo Rideau, 50 Rideau Street Silent Ripples signing noon to 3pm Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm |
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| Bouquinart Librairie & Galerie d'art Lancement à Gatineau - LA GRINGA de Marie-Sarah Bouchard 14h CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Octopus Books Glebe Signing | Amélie B. presents "the things we left unsaid" 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2025 11:30 AM An Accidental Villain with Linden MacIntyre. 1:00 PM Community with Ziyad Saadi and Conor Kerr. 2:30 PM Pick a Colour with Souvankham Thammavongsa. 4:00 PM Now and Then with Elaine Feeney and Eimear McBride. 6:00 PM You Will Not Kill Our Imagination with Saeed Teebi. 8:00 PM Human Rights in a Fractured World with Alex Neve Soloway JCC Jewish Book Festival Breakfast with Barbara Barbara Fradkin – Shipwrecked Souls 9:30am. Anna Solomon – The Book of V 12:30pm. David Bezmozgis – The Betrayers 3pm. Antiquarian Book Fair 10:00am 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 Canadian Poets Concert: the poetry of Adele Graf 3:00pm (un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm October: Scary Tales, Ghosts in the Attic |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Octopus Books Glebe Book Launch | We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM register for this free event: www.tickettailor.com/events/panitchschool/1879355 Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm In the Company of Writers 2:00pm Ottawa Urbanism Book Club 6:15pm You'll Pay For This: How we can afford a great city for everyone, forever | Paperback Michel Durand-Wood | Emma Durand-Wood Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm Bob Joseph, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act. 7:00pm Namaashoum 7:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive 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 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm The Greenhouse 6:30pm Book Launch | The Cheese Cure by Michael Finnerty 7:00pm Words & Culture 7:00pm Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Library and Archives Canada Events Lancement de livre L’équation avant la nuit, de Blaise Ndala 19h. www.eventbrite.ca/e/lancement-de-livre-lequation-avant-la-nuit-de-blaise-ndala-tickets-1778060269129?aff=oddtdtcreator CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am Asian Sounds 6:00pm uOpoetry x RISE x PRIDE Open Mic 6:00pm Ottawa Public Library Greely Writing Group 6:30pm Final Orbit with Chris Hadfield 7:00pm Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Policing Black Lives (2nd ed) - Book launch with Robyn Maynard 7:00pm Anina's Cafe Open Mic 7:30pm |
Bouquinart Librairie & Galerie d'art Jean-François Pronovost, la Route verte 17h www.facebook.com/events/1322243958885652 CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive Librairie du Soleil 321, rue Dalhousie. lancement de Réorigine des espèces, Alessandra Naccarato, traduit en français par Keltie Robertson 17h30 www.facebook.com/events/2613518102334885 LANCEMENT | RÉORIGINE DES ESPÈCES | OTTAWA 5:30pm Author Talk | Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism 6:00pm The Carleton Poetic Sociey Monthly Poetry Workshop 6:00pm The Carleton University Poetic Society Dead Poet Society Event 6:00pm Third World Players 6:00pm The 2025 CBC Massey Lectures Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World with Alex Neve 7:30pm Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Ajar Presents: Halloween 7:00pm |