The POP Montreal International Music Festival and Matrix Magazine have teamed up for the tenth consecutive year to bring you the most innovative and exciting literary competition on Earth. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary by opening up submissions to Europe and featuring one of fiction's rising stars and an …
The Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence program is a residency for Canadian writers. Wilfrid Laurier University offers both shorter, "intensive" residency opportunities and longer residencies, depending on available funds and local planning initiatives from year to year. All Canadian writers of established literary reputation in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or drama …
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is an opportunity for any young poet aged 11-17 to accelerate their writing career. Since it was founded in 1998 the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting new voices, such as Helen Mort, a successful poet whose …
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 …
Resonance is a monthly reading series of original creative writing and other text based collaborations. It's based at Café Résonance, Montreal. This month's readings are by Stevie Howell, Tessa Liem, Cam Terwilliger, Katharine Beeman and Darryl Whetter. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The Fables for the 21st Century program invites emerging and established Canadian writers to explore and re-imagine our individual and collective identities, through the creation of an anthology of 10 stories. Emerging and established writers of any genre who wish to create an original short piece for inclusion in the …