Calling all poetry and music lovers! This is a must-see digital concert on October 22, part of this year's Oxford Lieder Festival! Eric McElroy, a prize-winning pianist and widely-performed composer, is joined by renowned tenor James Gilchrist to perform the world premiere of a newly commissioned song-setting of poetry …
The application deadline for the University of Alberta's 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence Program is October 30, 2021!
A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering is a 4-day virtual webinar and participatory workshop (Nov. 3-6). Artists, scholars, and writers will gather to take stock of, reflect on, and extend the important work that Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: …
Catch two brilliant Griffin Poetry Prize winners in conversation on Wed. Nov. 10 at 7pm ET! Register here: https://bit.ly/3ENRmwp Organized by the Words Festival in partnership with Western's Anti-Racism Webinar Series.
Register to hear Valzhyna Mort, our 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize International winner, speaking on a panel Saturday Nov. 13 on "The State of Democracy in Eastern Europe." https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wda-easterneurope/register Books & Books and Writers for Democratic Action present…"An Afternoon with Julia Fiedorczuk, Valzhyna Mort, Maxim Osipov, and Andrey Kurkov Moderated by Askold Melnyczuk"