Submission to Issue 112: TREAT with poetry guest-edited by Tricia Dearborn will close at 11.59pm Melbourne time on Sunday, 4 February 2024. Cordite celebrates 27 years of publishing. Please consider making a donation. Please do NOT print your name or contact details on your submission document. Cordite only accepts unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions? …
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. …
Join Sylvia Legris, recipient of the 2024/2025 Prairie Grindstone Prize, and special guest Sherri Benning for a celebratory reading and discussion of Sylvia's poetry. followed by a Q&A (time permitting) and signing. This event will be held in person in the Travel Alcove. Sylvia Legris’s most recent poetry collection is The Principle of …
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. …
The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence is now open! The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence serves to honour the memory of Austin Clarke (1934-2016). Clarke was, above all else, an exceptional writer, one who disrupted the expectations of what Canadian literature could and should become. His literary career …
Award winning author of 23 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Dionne Brand, joins us to discuss her new novel, Salvage - her first work of non-fiction since the release of her groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return over twenty years ago. In Salvage, Brand interrogates the colonial, racist tropes found in …
Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series. Join us on September 25th for a Cross Pollinations event on the theme of Indigenous health and place-based care. This event will feature a …
The ‘Princess of Black Poetry’ Nikki Giovanni and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Fred Moten will bring their genius to Tallahassee for two days of musing about the future of Black artistic expression and activism, including a talk from Moten, a screening of the Sundance-winning GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT …
Poet, translator, and teacher George McWhirter was Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate, and holds a startlingly impressive list of awards and honours since then, most recently as translator from Spanish of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Mexican novelist, activist, and journalist Homero Aridjis. In conversation with author …
Enough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation? In the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, Giller Prize-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams wants to start a conversation about conversations. …
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. …
This translation prize honors the life and work of award-winning poet and translator Malinda A. Markham. The award is generously funded by Jennifer S. Epstein. $2000 and publication by Saturnalia Books Guidelines: –Manuscript must be a translation by a female translator of a female poet. Female is interpreted as anyone …
Graywolf Press is excited to offer an open submission period for contemporary poetry in translation. We are open to translations of poetry by living poets from any language, but we are especially eager to receive work from languages and countries of origin that are traditionally underrepresented in the literary landscape. We also …
In Ian Williams’ series of lectures, which he delivered across Canada this past fall, the award-winning author and poet explores what makes a good conversation, and how to connect with strangers even when you disagree with them — leaving space to maybe even change your mind. He also explains why …
Calico Series Call for Submissions Poetry: Female Afghan Poets We’re spotlighting the uncompromising voices of female Afghan poets in an upcoming edition of the Calico Series. The call is open to poets living in Afghanistan and the diaspora, translated from any language, and written in any style. We’re especially eager …
Draft Reading Series presents "An Archive of Care" November 22-24, 2024 Entirely on Zoom. What traces does care leave behind? Texts, images, scars, tears, belly-laughs, rituals, memories? For its 19th season, the Draft reading series has condensed our programming into a single weekend. Curators Kern Carter, Therese Estacion and Tyler Pennock …