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Voices and Poetry: A Workshop on Memory, History and Poetry

Rumney Methodist Chapel Rumney Methodist Chapel, 57 Wentloog Road, Rumney, Cardiff

Attend a free, unique workshop interpreting voices, memory and local history through poetry as part of the Living Levels Landscape Project. Participants will learn how to use poetry to examine, transform and respond to communal memory and history from the local area. Throughout the afternoon attendees will create their own …

Poets & Players with Morgan, Stepanova, Dugdale and France

Whitworth Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Rd, Manchester

Poets & Players is known for its imaginative programming of complementary arts — poetry with music, dance and visual art — in several striking settings in Manchester, UK, particularly the Whitworth Art Gallery. Newer writers are showcased alongside established poets and musicians. This event features poets J O Morgan, and …

Freedom to Read Week

Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Freedom to Read Week is organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council. …

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers submission deadline

Established in memory of poet Bronwen Wallace, this award now presents two awards for short fiction and poetry every year, effective 2020. As Ms. Wallace’s first book was not published until she was 35, this annual award is given to a writer below the age of 35 who has yet …

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LXXXII

Tranzac Club Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, Ontario

The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …