Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in …
Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50 Prairie Fire is giving centre stage to women writers over fifty! This special issue is a celebration that honours and recognizes the enormous contribution of living Canadian women writers, who have helped shape CanLit and continue to do so. If you are a woman, aged …
Join us on Monday, February 26th at 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT on Zoom for Translation Talks featuring D. M. Bradford in conversation with Donald Nicholson-Smith. Register here! Darby Minott Bradford is a poet, translator, and sometimes curator. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, was a finalist …
Please join us for the official virtual launch of Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets! We will be celebrating this multilingual conversation between fifteen poet-translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and diasporic gathering—out February 15 with Litmus Press!✨ Featuring Hoda Adra, Omar Berrada, Sara Elkamel, Safaa Fathy, Soukaina Habiballah, Marilyn Hacker, Golan Haji, Kadhim J. Hassan, Pierre Joris, Mona Kareem, Souad …
Stay tuned as we announce our 2024 Longlist of 10 books. Join us on our website and social media channels at 10:00am ET as we reveal the top ten poetry books of the year as chosen by our 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize judges: A. F. Moritz, Jan Wagner, and Anne …
We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …
Stay tuned as we announce our 2024 Shortlist of five books. Join us on our website and social media channels at 10:00am ET as we reveal the top five poetry books of the year as chosen by our 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize judges: A. F. Moritz, Jan Wagner, and Anne …
Centring Black scholarship, artistry, and embodied practices, Liberation in Four Movements traverses non-linear paths through texts and artworks, challenging the confines of traditional museum spaces. It invites spillage and contemplation as we navigate narratives of dehumanization, ultimately arriving at meditations on states of humanity and freedom. This journey flows through the …
Type Books presents an evening of poetry in translation with former Griffin Poetry Prize finalist and judge, Erín Moure, reading from her two latest poetry translations, you and This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu. Free to attend! ERÍN MOURE is a poet and poetry translator who lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Since 1979, she …
Stay tuned as we announce our 2024 Canadian First Book Prize winner, as chosen by our 2024 judges: A. F. Moritz, Jan Wagner, and Anne Waldman. Join us on our website and social media channels at 10:00am ET as we reveal which debut Canadian poetry book will be awarded the …
We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …
Join us on Wednesday, June 5 at 7:00 p.m. (ET) for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings. The Readings will be held at Koerner Hall in Toronto and the evening will include a selection of readings by the shortlisted finalists, this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Don McKay, the Canadian First Book …
We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us. Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text. …