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April 15, 2025

Bywords.ca - Submissions
Web: www.bywords.ca
Monthly online magazine featuring emerging and established poets residing, studying or working in Ottawa. Please submit poems and events by the 15th of each month. Events calendars distributed monthly. Please submit events to events@bywords.ca, and previously unpublished poetry to submissions@bywords.ca in Word or RTF format. Please no PDFS. Read guidelines on site.

CKCU FM Words and Culture
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 9:30 am. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/640/info.html
Words and Culture weaves conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists. Airs: Every Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM

The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 3:00 pm. Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Dunton Tower 1811, the Gordon Wood Lounge
Email: poeticssociety@gmail.com
bring writing to share

Pen and Paper Writer's Group
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 5:55 pm. Ottawa Public Library, Rideau Branch, 377 Rideau
Web: biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/pen-and-paper-writers-group-1

RPL Acoustic Music Jam
Time and Place: 6:00 pm. Rockcliffe Public Library, 380 Springfield Road
Email: rplacousticmusicclub@gmail.com
poetry and spoken word welcome

Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden with Ruthanna Emrys
Time and Place: April 15 at 7:00 pm. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Room 14.
Web: writersfestival.org/events/spring-20251/carleton-university-presents-a-half-built-garden

Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. 3 Brasseurs, 565 Kanata Ave
Web: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/silent-book-club-ottawa/silent-book-club-ottawa-chapter-kanata
an opportunity to meet fellow book lovers and read quietly together. Sign up on site.

Words & Culture
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 7:00 pm. CHUO 89.1 FM
Web: Chuo.fm/show/words-and-culture-indigenous/
Conversations with Indigenous language and knowledge keepers together with music by Indigenous artists.

Live on Elgin Open Mic
Time and Place: Every Tuesday at 8:00 pm. 220 Elgin, #2
Web: www.liveonelgin.com/calendar/event/?ID=KHE6Y2L
Get there early, say hi your host, grab a drink and sign up to do some music, comedy, poetry, or whatever else! Sign up closes at 7:45pm

April 2025 Events
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    CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
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
Sucker Punch with Scaachi Koul 7:00pm
Capstone Reading 7:30pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Perfect Books Presents: Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre with Mark Bourrie 7:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Common House Issue 5 Launch Party 7:00pm
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
MASC Young Authors & Illustrators Festival
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Sumac Literary Magazine – Issue 3 Launch Party 6:30pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Mutchmor Book Sale
Book launch: The Poilievre Project A radical blueprint for corporate rule by Martin Lukacs 5:30pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Mutchmor Book Sale
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Off the Pages: A Celebration of Banned Books 6:30pm
Can Con 2025
Mutchmor Book Sale
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Mutchmor Book Sale
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
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CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
RPL Acoustic Music Jam 6:00pm
Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden with Ruthanna Emrys 7:00pm
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
House of Anansi Poetry Bash with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie. 7:00pm
Passed the Threshold, and Back 7:00pm
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 #WriteOttawa 10:00am
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
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ben Ladouceur: Book Launch, I Remember Lights 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Our Power Our Planet: Working Together for the Next Generations 12:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Deborah-Anne Tunney, Poetry Workshop: Crafting Poems for Publication
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
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the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Earth Day Festival 10:15am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Amanda Earl, Margo La Pierre, Lisa Richter and Chuqiao Lang 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Collage Club 6:00pm
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
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
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