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CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
Octopus Books Glebe
Signing | Sue Davidson presents Dread Comes at Daybreak 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Slam Outaouais 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Stages & Pages | Abraham Lincoln 2:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Book launch - You, Your Husband and His Mother by Tracy Dalgleish 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
SOIRÉE DE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE 6:00pm
Maxime Cayer
SOIRÉE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE: UNE PINTE OU UN VERS ? 6:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
Octopus Books Glebe
Signing | Sue Davidson presents Dread Comes at Daybreak 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Perfect Books
Alex Manley launches Post-Man 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Common House Poetry and Book Sale Fundraiser 10:00am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
Isabella Wang. November, November (Nightwood, 2025)
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 93.1 Fundraising Drive
Perfect Books
Dope Advice Book Launch 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Poetry Launch - Compulsory Figures by John Barton 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM. RSVP: thespanielstale.ca/events/3753420251105
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
Library and Archives Canada Events
Treaties Recognition with Armand Ruffo, 7pm Morley Callaghan Room 395 Wellington Street. www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/services/public/events/events/2025/treaties-recognition-armand-ruffo.html
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 |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
ChromaQueer, film and arts festival
Rockcliffe Park Book Fair 2025
10 AM to 9 PM
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
The Calligraphy Society of Ottawa 7:00pm
A Simple Pencil - Amazing Letters with Rick Draffin, City View United Church, 6 Epworth |
CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
ChromaQueer, film and arts festival
Writing Beyond the Lines Workshop with Billie Nell. Arts Court Theatre. noon to 1:45pm. PWYC (suggested $10 / NOTAFLOF ) with a maximum of 25 participants. Registration on site.
Indigo Kanata Book Signings
Amber Topp 12-3pm
Open Pages Book Club / Reading Club
12-2:30pm
Perfect Books
Book Signing with Jolly Bimbachi and Jay Bertrand 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Rockcliffe Park Book Fair 2025
10 AM to 6 PM
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm |
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CKCU FM 93.1 Fundraising Drive
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. Arts Court, 2 Daly. 7-9pm www.facebook.com/events/1468660290919738
Indigo Kanata Book Signings
Alison Sealey 11am to 2pm
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
les cafés-rencontres de l’Association des auteurs et auteures de l’Outaouais 2:00pm
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 |
Octopus Books Glebe
Author Discussion | Mary Ndlovu presents An Outsider Within 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
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
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Library and Archives Canada Events
Book Launch | Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution 7pm
Octopus Books Glebe
Land, Memory, Meaning: Book Launch with Sadiqa de Meijer & Ken Wilson 7pm
Ottawa Trans Library
Zine History Night with Emma Ave, Zine Historian 19h - 21h
Perfect Books
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia launches Other Evolutions 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Book Launch | Ottawology by Tonya Davidson 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 |
Club de lecture francophone de BD 4:30pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Indigo Kanata Book Signings
Luaren Flyn 4 to 7 pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Bywords.ca
Submissions
Indigo Kanata Book Signings
Ingrid McCarthy 12 to 3pm
Open Pages Book Club / Reading Club
12-2:30pm
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
Road to Recovery: Pandemic's Aftermath, edited by Jon Peirce and Ann McMillan, with contributions from 50 authors. Join us from 1-3pm for readings, book signings and a chat with the editors. This is a free event, and all are welcome!
The Good Books Sale 10:00am
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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Indigo Kanata Book Signings
Alyssa Delle Palme 12 to 4pm
Perfect Books
Book Signing with Irina Moga 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa Silent Book Club, Downtown 1:30pm
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
Book Launch | Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm |
Library and Archives Canada Events
Book Launch / Lancement de livre — Sergio Marchi : Pursuing a Public Life 7pm www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-lancement-de-livre-sergio-marchi-pursuing-a-public-life-tickets-1740041554129?aff=oddtdtcreator
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
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
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Library and Archives Canada Events
BOOK LAUNCH | Rick Westhead: We breed lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture 7pm www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/services/public/events/events/2025/book-launch-rick-westhead.html
Open Pages Book Club / Reading Club
5-7pm
Riverbed Reading Series Season 6
Lillian Allen, Pink Veil, Jason Skilz. with a pre-event workshop with Lillian Allen. Sign up via site.
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
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
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Book Launch | Complex Kids, Simple Solutions 8:00pm
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
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Perfect Books
Amelie B. Book Signing 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Romance Book Signing - Ruby Barrett and Jennifer Whiteford 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Book Fair: Crime for Christmas 1:00pm
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Queer SWANA Stories 6:30pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm |
Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Ottawa Urbanism Book Club 6:15pm
Cities and the Constitution: Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need by Alexandra Flynn and others
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
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Book launch - Murder at Donwell Abbey, by Vanessa Kelly 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
our book club will meet from 6-7pm to discuss The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft, a twisting tale about a group of translators searching for a missing author in a primeval Polish forest. Spaces are limited and registration is required in advance - sign up online or in store.
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Ottawa Public Library Orleans Writing Group 10:00am
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
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
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm |
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
Thursday Murder Book Club meets from 6-7pm to discuss The Hunter by Tana French, a tense thriller set in the Irish countryside exploring family, loyalty, and revenge. Spaces are limited and registration is required in advance - sign up online or in store.
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 |
Perfect Books
Book Signing with Barbara Sibbald 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am |
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Indigo Kanata Book Signings
James Duthie 3pm Tickets required
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 |
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