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Local book stores

Support our local book vendors!

The dedicated people who run these community-minded shops care about the artists, poets, writers and authors who live nearby. The best way to show them that we want and need their continued presence in our neighbourhoods is by making the mindful choice to buy from them.

  • Black Squirrel Books & Espresso Bar on Bank Street buys and sells used books of merit, serves locally roasted coffee, craft beer, and biodynamic wines and hosts live events.
  • Books on Beechwood is an independently owned and operated business that has been serving the New Edinburgh neigborhood in Ottawa for over fifteen years.
  • Mill Street Books in Almonte, ON is a small, community minded shop which offers a wide selection of books and great customer service.
  • Perfect Books opened on Elgin Street in Ottawa in April of 1994. This independent book stores strives to be a part of the downtown community and responsive to the needs of our neighbourhood.
  • Renouf’s Books Ottawa’s “government bookstore was founded in 1888 and offers books, reports, and documents from government organizations and the private industry.
  • Singing Pebble Books on Main Street has a wide selection of books on health and healing, women’s studies, philosophy, self help, parenting, psychology, metaphysics, vegetarian cooking, Eastern and Western spirituality.
  • Spark in Perth, Ontario aims to inspire, whether through the written word, activities that challenge mind and hands, or artful objects that just make you smile when you look upon them.
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Find a Poem, with JC Sulzenko

Tuesday April 11, 2023
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
via Zoom
Free to members of Canadian Authors. Non-members $10.00

Register by email

Facing the Page Together

Drop-in sessions | Members only

We meet via Zoom to discuss an aspect of writing to focus on for that session. Perhaps it's adding specific detail, or improving dialogue, or working with voice or point of view. We then write "together" (with our without cameras on). We can respond to a prompt or apply the concept to our works in progress. It could be fiction, non-fiction or poetry. We then gather again as a group to discuss the experience.

Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. via Zoom

October 17: Adding specific, concrete details
November 21: Working with dialogue
January 30: Serving the story
February 27: Filtering, adverbs and goal setting
March 27: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
May 1: Voice
May 29: A microfiction challenge

Find out more

Our Anthologies


Merging Waters is an anthology of works by the members of the Poetry Circle of the Canadian Authors Association - National Capital Region. Enjoy poetry by Blaine Marchand, Tsippi Guttmann-Nahir, Kati Lyon-Villiger, Christine Beelen, Adrienne Stevenson and Arlene Somerton Smith.

Cover featuring the Rideau Falls, Ottawa. Title Merging Waters
Buy Merging Waters

Building Community features the top stories and poems from the 2021 National Capital Writing Contest.

Building Community Anthology
Buy Building Community

20/20 Vision features the top stories and poems from the 2020 National Capital Writing Contest.

Front cover of the 20/20 Vision antholoty
Buy 20/20 Vision

The National Capital Writing Contest's 30th Anniversary Anthology features the top stories and poems from the 2017 NCWC.

Front cover of the 30th NCWC anthology
Buy the 30th Anniversary Anthology
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