Join us for the launch of Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (CBC Poetry Prize Winner) with Pratyusha and Nina Mingya Powles. In Alycia Pirmohamed’s debut poetry collection, a woman’s body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its …
The annual Poetry Africa festival is curated and presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. The festival is one of the single most important contemporary poetry events on the African continent and offers a weeklong celebration of wordsmiths across all ages …
With a name that harkens back to a late 1800s New York vaudeville act, this moveable feast of an event—curated and presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and songwriter Paul Muldoon—combines music, prose and poetry, and high commentary and low comedy with an evolving lineup of world-class guests and house band …
The Writing Circle is a drop-in session for writers of all genres and languages to work on their writing at any stage of development, whether writing a first draft, revision or editing, or even submitting to publications. It is open to writers from the University of Alberta, as well as …
LitFest is a festival where writers share true stories. Every October, we invite authors to the stage to tell what they know and challenge us with their ideas. It’s Canada’s first and only nonfiction festival. LitFest started small. In 2002, a few thought leaders formed the Alberta Book Fair Society …