Prize: $10,000 + Residency Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center 2025 Judge: Shane McCrae General Guidelines – Submissions are open July 1 – September 30. – A fee of $28 must be paid at the time of submission. – Open to any poet writing in English. Translations are not eligible. – The …
The Adroit Journal seeks readers in translation to join our growing team. This is a volunteer, remote position with a start date of ASAP. The monthly commitment is approximately 6-8 hours when the submissions portal is open. Readers will read, discuss, and vote on submissions of translated work, and will attend …
Admission: $15 / Free for Indigenous participants Register: Here The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present a workshop by writer-in-residence Erín Moure. On the workshop, Moure says: Translation is a performance that is incorporated, that stems from a textual flow through a body already socially, culturally and ideologically constituted (and …
The 38th annual Vancouver Writers Fest takes place from October 20–26, 2025, featuring a scintillating lineup of exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue in 87 events. Our 2025 Festival Guest Curator is the brilliant, multi-award-winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin. She has curated four events for us in a program called Cycling and Renewal …
This Masterclass is an extraordinary double-bill, featuring two icons of contemporary Canadian poetry. Canisia Lubrin is the author of the multi-award-winning Code Noir and The World After Rain, a poetry collection epic in its vision and intimate in its exploration of grief and loss. Jillian Christmas is a spoken word poet, author of The Gospel of Breaking, and …
Poetry London is a leading international magazine, where new names share pages with acclaimed contemporary poets. We also publish a wide range of poetry in translation. The magazine is published in March, June and October. We receive a vast amount of submissions, so reading can take up to four months, …
Judges: Denise Saul, Ian Duhig, Susannah Dickey Prizes: First prize £5,000, second prize £3,000, third prize £2,000, commended prizes £500 Run by The Poetry Society since 1978, The National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to …
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions from emerging writers in both the GTA and across Canada who currently have a full or near-full draft of a manuscript. We accept novels, short story collections, creative non-fiction/memoir, works intended for young adults and poetry. Complete or near complete means that the writer has up …
The Adroit Journal seeks readers in translation to join our growing team. This is a volunteer, remote position with a start date of ASAP. The monthly commitment is approximately 6-8 hours when the submissions portal is open. Readers will read, discuss, and vote on submissions of translated work, and will attend …
Our annual Open Season Awards accepts entries in poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world. Deadline: 11:59pm (PST) on November 1, 2025 The winner in each genre will receive a prize of CAD$2,000 and be published in the magazine's spring 2026 …
Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry The lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class. Seuss will frame the discussion by considering how the literary burlesque, and the ethos of the …
The Regular Reading Period is open! We welcome unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during our Regular Reading Period, open from June 1 to November 15 at 12:00pm EST. Ploughshares is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the winter and spring, a prose issue in the summer, and …