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The Ruth and David Lampe Poetry Competition and Award

Online

All forms and styles of poetry considered.  Open only to Canadian writers. Closes Monday, July 31, 2023. General guidelines: • Up to 16 pages of poetry may be submitted as a suite (we advise the poems be a related grouping, not a hodgepodge of random selections; you may also submit …

$35

The 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest

Online

Timeline –Submissions are open from March 1st 2023 until July 31st 2023. –Finalists and winner will be announced by Driftwood editors in November 2023. –The winning chapbook(s) will be published in 2024. ​ Guidelines​​ –Poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are all welcome. …

$13

The Half and One Poetry Video Contest

Online

Based in the state of Meghalaya, India, Half and One is an online publisher of poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and comics in written, audio, and video form. We welcome submissions of previously unpublished poetry. –Poetry submissions are poems between 20 and 70 lines. –One poem per entry. –The winner of …

$15

In Conversation: Terrance Hayes and Roger Reeves

Austin Central Library 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX

The Library Foundation and Texas Book Festival continue the author series In Conversation with MacArthur Foundation Fellow Terrance Hayes and 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roger Reeves. In Conversation pairs writers for intimate, unmoderated discussions of their work. Both Hayes and Reeves have new essay collections. Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets …

Free

Book Launch: Erín Moure

Parc Drolet 4274 Drolet St, Montreal, Quebec

Poet, translator, and three-time Griffin finalist and judge Erín Moure launches her new collection, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, (House of Anansi Press) on August 3rd at 7:00pm ET in Montreal at Parc Drolet. Klara du Plessis joins her, reading from her new book …

Free