Join Another Story and Palimpsest Press to celebrate the launch of Ceilidh Michelle's butterflies, zebras, moonbeams and Shane Neilson's Constructive Negativity: Prize Culture, Evaluation, and Disability in Canadian Poetry. Learn more here.
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 …
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is structured to ensure that a personal and highly supportive one-to-one mentorship is offered to develop one's manuscript as a whole. They match each of their participants with a talented, often award-winning, professional author who is also a skilled editor in their genre. Learn more here.
The right words in the right order are able to tangibly change reality. Know how to use your words and you know how to make magic. Learn from the greats as we dissect and explore the nuances rhetorical devices of effective persuasion. From Shakespeare to Fred Rogers, we will talk …
In Our Tongues is Ottawa’s first Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPoC) reading and art series. The featured artists at this gathering are: Kevin Schofield, Manahil Bandukwala and Eyob Tzu. Learn more here.
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
The Brockton Writers Series (BWS) is a bi-monthly literary reading series founded in November, 2009. The series’ vision is to host writers who reflect Canadian literature and Canadian diversity, defining diversity to include: established and emerging writers, writers of colour, queer writers, younger and older writers, aboriginal writers and other …
The 2019 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist will be announced today. Learn more here.
This event offers a dynamic reading by a distinct array of poetic innovators from the region: Kristen Case, Amanda Cook, Danielle Legros Georges, Suzanne Mercury, Oliver Strand, and Janaka Stucky. The evening will also serve as a welcoming reception for Harvard scholar at risk Chib?ìhè Obi Ach?mbá. Come one, come …
The Woodstock Bookshop started and runs Woodstock Poetry Festival, a completely independent festival that has now been running for seven years. This year's poets taking part include Raymond Antrobus, Niall Campbell, Vidyan Ravinthiram, Hannah Sullivan, Mary Jean Chan and more. Learn more here.
Sheri-D Wilson, Poet Laureate of Calgary, is sending out a call out to the community, the entire city and the world — I invite you, to write a portrait in the form of a poem, prose poem, or snapshot/ flash fiction — about someone you know (not about yourself) that …