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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry – Deadline

Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in …

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Prairie Fire Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50

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Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50 Prairie Fire is giving centre stage to women writers over fifty! This special issue is a celebration that honours and recognizes the enormous contribution of living Canadian women writers, who have helped shape CanLit and continue to do so. If you are a woman, aged …

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Translation Talks: D. M. Bradford & Donald Nicholson-Smith

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Join us on Monday, February 26th at 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT on Zoom for Translation Talks featuring D. M. Bradford in conversation with Donald Nicholson-Smith. Register here! Darby Minott Bradford is a poet, translator, and sometimes curator. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, was a finalist …

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Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets Official Book Launch

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Please join us for the official virtual launch of Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets! We will be celebrating this multilingual conversation between fifteen poet-translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and diasporic gathering—out February 15 with Litmus Press!✨ Featuring Hoda Adra, Omar Berrada, Sara Elkamel, Safaa Fathy, Soukaina Habiballah, Marilyn Hacker, Golan Haji, Kadhim J. Hassan, Pierre Joris, Mona Kareem, Souad …

2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist Announcement

Stay tuned as we announce our 2024 Longlist of 10 books. Join us on our website and social media channels at 10:00am ET as we reveal the top ten poetry books of the year as chosen by our 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize judges: A. F. Moritz, Jan Wagner, and Anne …