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 …
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Eve Joseph joins fellow writers Yvonne Blomer, Lorna Crozier, Cecily Nicholson and Jason Stefanik for this much anticipated Whistler Writers Festival event. Learn more here.
Multi-award winning poets Raymond Antrobus, Ilya Kaminsky and Carcanet debutante Lisa Kelly share the stage to perform their latest work. The event explores both the poets’ personal experiences of d/Deafness as well as looking at a wider political and historical context in which d/Deaf communities have been marginalised. Learn more …
The competition offers a $1,500 prize for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer, and $1,500 for Best Suite by a Writer at Any Career Point. The total page length of the suite submission is not to exceed 16 pages. It is urged that a submitted suite be complete work, not …
The Vancouver Writers Fest’s flagship Festival welcomes local and international writers to stages on and around Granville Island for a week of literary events and immersive conversations for all ages. As Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig says of this year’s Fest, “We have created a week of events that will entertain …