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 …
Lexicon Books is thrilled to host three wonderful poets: Kirby, also the owner/publisher of knife/fork/book, an all-poetry bookstore and publishing house in Toronto, with their newest book This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press); Annick MacAskill, author of No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press), critic and editor, and …
Poets’ Society of Hastings County North & Highlands East presents The Word Is Wild Literary Festival III. This year's festival features author and poet Sharon Berg, poet and vocalist Honey Novick, and science-fiction and fantasy novelist, Nina Munteanu, with music by Albert Saxby. The festival features poetry, books and music, …
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 …