The 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition - Young People's Prize welcomes submissions from poets aged between 11 and 17. Each year 12 poets will be selected to appear at a special event at the Newcastle Poetry Festival and receive a £25 book voucher. The 2020 competition judge is Vidyan Ravinthiran. Learn …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
March is a month for poetry – and what a wealth of poetry we’ve got lined up for you! Between Wednesday 4 and Sunday 8 March 2020, St Andrews promises to be just brimming with verse: with readings, exhibitions and installations from some of the most exciting poets writing today. …
With the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contests, students choose classic and contemporary poems from the senior anthology for grades 9-12. Then they learn them deeply, commit them to memory, hone their recitation skills, and compete for over $75,000 in travel and prizes. Learn more …
Columba is a small online quarterly of new poems. Contributors are predominantly from Canada and the USA, including Stephanie Burt (forthcoming), Leah Umansky, Flavia Cosma (forthcoming), Darren Bifford, and Sue Sinclair, among others. Columba's editors are based in eastern Canada, but its readership is broad. The submissions window opens and …