Join us for In/Verse on Saturday, March 12 at 1:55 pm PT by registering here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event. Speakers: Chantal Gibson is an award-winning …
“The future lives in our bodies”: Poetry & Disability Justice, a virtual reading and discussion, will feature Meg Day, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Travis Chi Wing Lau, who will also host and moderate. Lambda Literary and Woodland Pattern Book Center are partnering to host this pre-recorded poetry reading and conversation as part of the Poetry …
For the 7th year in a row, the Winnipeg Free Press will be publishing poetry by Manitoba writers for National Poetry Month in partnership with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. As always, we’ll be taking a page from the League of Canadian Poets, which means that this year’s theme will be?Intimacy.? However you …
The Canadian Literature Centre, MacEwan University, and Athabasca University are once again teaming up to bring you the 2022 CLC Poetry Contest! We’re looking for the best poem in English or in French from a University of Alberta, MacEwan University, or Athabasca University student on the theme of “Listening.” Entrants …
Manchester Literature Festival is thrilled to present an evening with Somali-British poet and writer Warsan Shire. Born in Nairobi and raised in London, Warsan was awarded the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London. She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How …
Drink the Wild Air is a Creative Writing Retreat for Youth ages 11 – 19. Typically nestled in the gateway to the rocky mountains in Kananaskis country, this year we’ll come together online to take workshops with working professionals, play games, share our stories, our songs, our poems and our …
In partnership with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and as the closing event for the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we present poets Victoria Chang (Obit) and Rita Dove (Playlist for the Apocalypse) as they read from and discuss their recent collections. Chang received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Obit, and Dove is …
Toronto’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series Featured poets: Tawhida Tanya Evanson & Ayomide Bayowa Featured dance artist: Paromita Kar Host: Bänoo Zan Open Mic Sign-up: 6:45 EST Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, author and multidisciplinary artist. Her two collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and …
For our Poetry Prize, send no more than three poems in a single document. The winner of the prize will be awarded $1000 and publication in an upcoming issue of Indiana Review. Each paid submission comes with a year-long subscription to Indiana Review. For non-US mailing addressees, please add $12 for postage ($7 …
April 20, 2022 marks the first in-person Lunch Poems event in over two years! Please join us to enjoy readings by Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam with guests Adrienne Yeung and Britt McGillivray. Fiona Tinwei Lam Vancouver's sixth poet laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam has published three collections of poetry and a children’s book. …
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10,000 students across Canada learned a poem by heart this year. School champions participated in online qualifiers and the 42 students who obtained the highest scores advanced to the semifinals, where their videos were judged by a panel of poets. The semi-finalists all received $250 each …
Join us on April 21st at 7:30 p.m. for the 2022 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Cherie Dimaline, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, Hunting By Stars, and Empire of Wild. Dimaline’s lecture is titled An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety. The event will take place at the TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS (masks strongly recommended). …