Entries are open for the Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £1000 for a single poem. Poet Clare Pollard is the guest judge. 50 poems will be longlisted and published in Live Canon's 2017 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live …
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 Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver seeks to hire an Adjunct Professor to teach CRWR 401-001: Writing of Poetry 1. The successful candidate will teach poetry writing across a variety of forms. CRWR 401 is a two-hour workshop course, requiring additional office hours, with …
The next Dead Poets reading will take place at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch on July 9th, 2017, from 3-5 PM. The reading will be hosted in the Alice MacKay Room, which is located one floor below the entry concourse. It will feature: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 …
The TS Eliot Festival is an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions on the occasion of the centenary of TS Eliot’s first published collection, Prufrock and Other Observations. The celebrated novelist Ali Smith will read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and discuss it with biographer Adam Begley. …
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In July, they examine the eclogue, a short dialogue or soliloquy that most often takes a pastoral theme. The group will read and discuss a wide variety of eclogues. A creative …
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 …
This two-week literary residency nurtures a new frame of contemporary Canadian writing. Increasingly, today’s writer is participating in acts of acknowledgement, reclamation, restoration, and resurgence regarding minority, diasporic, and Indigenous histories. This year, 2017, provides an opportunity to take pause, pivot, and create space to think about these histories, and …
From climbing Himalayan peaks to scaling the big walls of Yosemite, program participants have canoed across Canada, surfed down the coast of the Baja, cycled the Silk Road, almost perished on Mt. McKinley, and kayaked around Greenland. Their stories share themes of both isolation and comradeship, close encounters with death, …
The Saskatchewan Festival of Words (established in 1996) is a registered charity and non-profit organization that holds an annual literary festival the third weekend in July with over 50 events over 4 days in and around historic downtown Moose Jaw. The festival showcases literary talent from all over Canada including …
In commemoration of Margaret Laurence, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie and the community’s ongoing literary heritage, the Lakefield Literary Festival showcases Canadian authors and promotes the joy of reading and writing among children and adults. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Vallum is accepting original and previously unpublished poetry submissions for the Vallum Award for Poetry 2017. The judge this year is Nicole Brossard. An important voice in poetry over the last 40 years, she has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and has twice won the Governor General's Award …
Room is Canada’s oldest literary journal by and about women. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases fiction, poetry, reviews, art work, interviews and profiles about the female experience. Many of our contributors are at the beginning of …
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote. Learn more here. …
Come out for the launch of Arc Poetry Magazine issue 83 with readings by Kayla Czaga, Deanna Young, Mike Blouin and Karen Massey. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
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 …
Founded in 2016, Ore Samples is a Canadian writers series curated and managed by a volunteer director. An excellent volunteer advisory board is in place. All funding and support received by Ore Samples go to the writers and performers featured in the series. Ore welcomes Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott …
It's the finale of words(on)stages' third season and they're closing it off with a big ol' bang, featuring three incredible poets, as well as Toronto-based finalists of the 2017 Blodwyn Memorial Prize. They've got Kate Hargreaves, Domenica Martinello, and Phoebe Wang gracing the stage, as well as those secret Blodwyn …