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Perfect Books
Time and Place: 258A Elgin
Web: perfectbooks.ca/
readings, signings; accessibility note: 1 stair up to store; Additional accessibility via walkway from Somerset Street
May 4 - Beautiful Outlaw Press - Mark Goldstein, Phil Hall, Jaclyn Piudik, Chris Turnbull; 7pm
May 6 - Pauls Wells, 7pm
May 7 - Kayla Czaga, Cassidy McFadzean, Bardia Sinaee 7pm
May 8 - Misty Pratt, 7pm
May 11 - Book signings: Max Folsom, Norm Boucher, Randolf Harrold, and Mary Jane Maffini, 1pm
May 13 - Mary-Helene Pelletier, 7pm
May 14 - Susan Doherty, 7pm
May 15 - Mike Martin, 7pm
May 19 - Patrick Grace, Ben Ladouceur, Ellen Chang-Richardson, 6pm
May 22 - Jesse Keith Butler and Daniel Bezalel Richardson, 7pm
May 28 - Mike Stewart, 7pm
May 29 - Mark Bourrie, 7pm
June 26 - Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Neal Shannacappo, Liam Taliesin, time tbd.
July 25 - Jess Taylor, 7pm

April 2024 Events
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  Silent Book Club Ottawa - Little Italy
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Josh O’Kane, Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy 5:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Good Prospects Brewing Company Open Mic 7:00pm
Smutty Storytelling 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Scribblin' in the Margins Slam 7:00pm
Salem Paige
 
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Ellen Chang-Richardson and Chuqiao Yang 5:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Health for All With Jane Philpott 7:00pm CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks' Banned Books Night 6:30pm
AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, and Amanda Earl 2:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am Bywords.ca
Submissions
Happiness Habits 613 Book Club
Thr Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 6:30pm; free Ottawa Public Library - Sunnyside, 1049 Bank tinyurl.com/613bookclub150424
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Authors Unbound
Chuqiao Yang, Natalie Hanna, Manahil Bandukwala, and Mahaila Smith. 7pm, Octopus Books,
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
CBC All in A Day Book Club 6:30pm
Kai Thomas, The Upper Country 1805 Gaspé Avenue (the community hub in Manor Park) In-Person - registration: tinyurl.com/KaiThomasCBC Virtual - registration: tinyurl.com/KaiThomasCBCVirtual
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2023/2024 7:00pm
Stories by Golden Age Crime Queen Margery Allingham
Out of Darkness with Denise Chong 7:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am  
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Westboro Books Readings and Signings
Jean Van Loon and Deborah-Anne Tunney 11:30am to 12:30pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
Video Games As Art www.eventbrite.ca/e/naked-boys-reading-video-games-as-art-tickets-752942931577
Authors Unbound
Barbara Leimsner and Monia Mazigh, 7pm Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre 355 Cooper St RSVP: events@octopusbooks.ca
Bouquinart Librairie & Galerie d'art
Causerie-rencontre avec Mani Soleymanlou 17h30 www.facebook.com/events/s/causerie-rencontre-avec-mani-s
Pizza and Poetry Open Mic 6:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Common House Issue 3 Launch Party/open mic 7:00pm
Poetry in Voice – 2024 National Poetry Recitation Finals 8:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline 7:00pm
Share Your Peace 7:00pm
the 2nd Annual Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Urban Legends Poetry Collective 7:00pm
ULPC Broken Mic #4 ft. Truth is ... and Max-Alma Mathieu. Registration: bit.ly/ULPCbrokenmic4tickets
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day at Books on Beechwood
Independent Bookstore Day 2024
Rockcliffe Park Spring Book Sale
the 2nd Annual Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl
Plan 99 Reading Series 5:00pm
The Best Canadian Poetry launch of 2024, featuring readings from local contributors and editors Anita Lahey and Bardia Sinaee.
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Rockcliffe Park Spring Book Sale
the 2nd Annual Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Art House Cafe Zine Swap 5:00pm
(un)told 2024 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Book Launch: Andy Hargreaves and Joel Westheimer 7:00pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 6:00pm
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