Dusty Owl

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Dusty Owl is a poetry collective operating in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The Dusty Owl Reading Series was first launched in 1994 by Steve Zytveld, as President of the English Literature Society at Carleton University. The event was hosted monthy at a local café until, in 1999, other life issues took priority over the running of the series.

In 2004, the series was revived with many of its original participants as the organizational force. Steve Zytveld and his wife Catherine MacDonald-Zytveld (an Ottawa-area mixed-media artist and photographer) co-host the event on the third Sunday of every month at Swizzles Bar and Grill, a "bias-free" bar in downtown Ottawa.

The reading series has drawn poets and authors from across Canada, and into the United States of America, and has branched out to include the Dusty Owl Small Press, which publishes a quarterly chapbook literary magazine, "The Dusty Owl Quarterly", commonly referred to as "The DÖQ" (pronounced duk), as well as a biannual zine featuring horror and dark SF literary genres. The press also publishes short collections of poetry and prose, largely by Canadian artists.