The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word began as a small festival in Ottawa in 2004. At that time, it was dubbed the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics. The first festival included six teams of poets and a small number of guests in attendance. In just nine short years, the festival grew from …
The TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) -St Edmund Hall Writer in Residence scheme for 2020 is designed to bring a BAME writer to the University of Oxford for the eight weeks of Hilary Term (January 19th through to March 14th 2020). St Edmund Hall, a small and …
PRISM has a total of four recurring contests: their annual Creative Non-Fiction competition, the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction and the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms. Each contest is open to all writers, international and Canadian. Each entry includes a one-year subscription …
From its advent, the mission of Sequestrum has been to feature new and emerging writers alongside literary heavyweights. With its New Writer Awards, hundreds in cash prizes and publication in a future issue of Sequestrum will be awarded to up-and-coming poets. This award is open only to writers who have …
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 …