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CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
The Carleton Poetic Society Open Mic at Oat Couture's Night Oat 7:00pm
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Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Presses uOttawa Press Author Talks and Launches
Author talk : le français grandeur nature, with Pierre Calvé, co-hosted by Robert Major | Lamoureux Hall (LMX 203), University of Ottawa
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Nuit blanche dans le Vieux-Hull 8:00pm
Nuit blanche dans le Vieux-Hull 8:00pm |
FILibro Canada 2025
The Byward Market in Literature, a walk with Susan Johnston 11:00am
Book Launch: Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees 2:00pm
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Sue Davidson, Dread Comes At Daybreak 4:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
Book Launch: Ann Cavlovic, Count on Me 6:30pm |
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Slam Outaouais 2025
Espace DEP Sylvestre, 230 Rue Montcalm, Gatineau, QC 18h30. Annie St-Jean animera la saison et sacrifiera un finaliste de la 17e. Venez écouter Nadir Benfredj, Marco Boudreault, La Chamane, LouNat, Andrée Martineau, Rich’S et Simon RM. Comme à notre habitude, nous passerons le chapeau à la pause, mais vous pouvez aussi faire un virement à slamoutaouais@gmail.com. Vos dons soutiennent les joutes et le déplacement des finalistes régionaux à la compétition nationale.
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Book Launch: A Plea to Our Mother by Kathleen Rooney. 4:00pm
Vibrations from Gaza: Screening, talk and book launch 7:00pm |
SOIRÉE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE: UNE PINTE OU UN VERS ? 6:00pm
Névé Dumas. Thématique du micro ouvert : communauté et résistance
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 Stories That Shape Us: Open Mic Poetry Reading 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
Book Speed Dating 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Forensic Field Techniques for Human Remains by Christopher Courtin
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm |
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia with Merlyna Lim octopusbooks.ca/events/3604620251009
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Jacqui Du Toit, The Hottentot Venus
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm |
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Jacqui Du Toit, The Hottentot Venus
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
WyrdSmyth Press Presents HallowZine, an Art and Zine Fair 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 |
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
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Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 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
Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Bywords.ca 2025 John Newlove Poetry Award 6:30pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Domina Eliahou and Stuart Ross 7:30pm
Arc Poetry Magazine 2025 Archibald Lampman Award 8:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
Book launch of Ajar by Margo LaPierre 8:30pm |
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CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
2025-2026 Munro Beattie Lecture with Ivan Coyote 7:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Webinar: Book Bones with Susan Forest: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm |
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Book Launch of A Capital Mystery, featuring 21 stories set in Ottawa by 21 local authors. 6:00pm
Ottawa Design Club: Pivotal Moments - Special Zine Edition Launch Event 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Improvised Introductions Jaap Blonk (voice) and Jesse Stewart (percussion) 8:30pm |
Can*Con, Ottawa's Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Convention, Fall 2025
Can Con 2025
in person
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Can*Con, Ottawa's Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Convention, Fall 2025
Can Con 2025
in person
Festival du livre des indépendant.e.s 10:00am
Jagjeet Sharma - Author Signings and readings 12:00pm
Indigo Gloucester, 2401 City Park Drive. Silent Ripples signing noon to 3pm
Hashem Abdi, When The Last Tree Falls 4:00pm
Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
Zane Koss and rob mclennan
Catherine Allard, Christine Kifoil, Nshannacappo 7:00pm |
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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 |
Elmvale Writers Group 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
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
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
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
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
uOpoetry x RISE x PRIDE Open Mic 6:00pm
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 |
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