Verb Festival is an annual writers festival in Wellington, New Zealand. They celebrate Aotearoa writers with international guests. Verb Festival features the famous LitCrawl on Saturday 9 November: 25 events in 3.5 hours in 25 venues. Learn more here.
The C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference focuses on women-identifying writers from all genres and all experience levels, from journalism to mass market books to literary endeavors, and beyond. The goal is to provide a space for camaraderie, connection-making, and inspiration, and while women-identifying writers are the only presenters at the …
Poetry In Aldeburgh is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to build on and continue the heritage of poetry and over 30 years of poetry festivals on the Suffolk Coast. Their first festival was in November 2016 and they hold them annually. They also work with local and national organisations in …
Poetry inPrint is a writer’s residency in a printmaker’s studio. Collaborating with local author Jacqueline Valencia, organizer of the Toronto Poetry Talks Symposium, this program pairs eight local visual artists, including members of the inPrint Collective, with eight local poets. Artists and poets are at various stages in their career, …
This workshop presents the sonnet as a tool to explore contemporary concerns that can be incorporated into a weekly, even daily writing practice. Participants will write new sonnets and review them with the group to explore and integrate in-depth theory elements. Through revisions, they will see how to exploit the …