Sheila-Na-Gig Editions invites entries for our annual First Chapbook contest. Please follow the guidelines below.Jessica Manack’s Gastromythology was our 2023 winner! Our 2024 winner, Elinor Ann Walker’s work, Fugitive but Gorgeous, will be published in 2025! IMPORTANT: This contest is meant to support early-career poets. Only poets who have NOT previously published a …
Words Without Borders Social Media Coordinator Part-time Remote The social media coordinator’s mission is to drive engagement and growth across Words Without Borders’ social media channels as we work to broaden the audience for international literature. Reporting to the marketing and communications manager and working closely with the editorial, digital, and …
Work With Us We’re recruiting: Chair & Trustees Are you keen to move the arts forward? Are you passionate about the role the arts can play in building a better society? Do you think that diverse voices deserve to be heard through poetry? Do you want to be an empowering …
In 2024 the Ontario Arts Council, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, created the Lillian Allen Prize and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize to recognize and celebrate spoken word poetry. The prizes are named after Canadian poet and spoken word artist Lillian Allen. Her distinctive approach to …
Timeline- Submissions are open from March 1st 2025 until July 31st 2025. - Finalists and winner will be announced by Driftwood editors in November 2025. - The winning chapbook(s) will be published in 2026. Guidelines- Original poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are …
The Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest is an award that provides a prize for the single best poem submitted to our judges. This contest is open to all poets (professional, emerging, and first-time) in Canada, and is run each summer in memory of poet and friend Lesley Strutt. Submissions Guidelines - This contest …
The Poetry in Translation Prize is a biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The prize is open to living, published poets from around the world, writing in any language. The winning poet and translator receive an advance of $5,000, to be shared equally between poet and translator, …