Palette is thrilled to offer the Palette Poetry Prize for 2019: $4000 and publication. They are seeking one excellent poem that speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today. Send them your incandescent heart on the page. The winner will be selected by our guest judge, …
PEN Canada is now accepting English language submissions for the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The annual award aims to encourage new writing and to provide a space where young, unpublished writers can submit short stories, creative non-fiction, journalism, and poetry. A jury of distinguished PEN Canada members will judge …
Are you a writer currently living on PEI or in the Maritimes? If so, you may be eligible to apply for the One Life Writing retreat scholarship to attend the 2019 Write by the Sea retreat. This scholarship is part of One Life's commitment to ensuring that the benefits of …
This event features a conversation with a poet-physician, a poet-patient, and the Mount Sinai poet-in-residence. With Dr. Shane Neilson, author of Dysphoria (PQL); Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst (Biblioasis); and Ronna Bloom, author of The More (Pedlar Press). Moderated by Dr. Allan Peterkin of The Program in Health, Arts …
The 2019 CLC Kreisel Lecture will be delivered by Dionne Brand. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award, she will give a lecture titled “An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading.” Brand will be introduced by bestselling author Lawrence Hill. Brand’s …