Since 2011, The Word On The Street Saskatoon has proudly hosted a wide and diverse range of literary talent from across Canada. Their eighth annual festival is shaping up to be another great one. Learn more here.
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 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 …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
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 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 …
Today is the first of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2020. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than June 30, 2019 for books published between January 1 and June 30, 2019. Learn more here about how to enter and how to obtain entry forms.
The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. One of these winners will be the highest scoring manuscript entered by a poet with no solo collection (full-length or chapbook) previously published. Up to 25 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended". The winning …