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 …
The raison d'être of Lunch Poems is to invite and welcome everyone to enjoy poetry in a relaxed and casual atmosphere: whether you are new to poetry or have had a long romance with it. Lunch Poems at SFU invites you to join them to lunch on words and feed …
A reading by three of the most dynamic and provocative performers in the genre: Joyelle McSweeney (author of TOXICON), Urayoán Noel (author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO), and Ronald V. Wilson (author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT). Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Learn more here.