The Al Purdy house on Roblin Lake near Ameliasburgh, Ontario is now the site of the A-Frame Residency Program, under which writers are offered a time and place to work in a location that is attractive and of historic significance. Each year between mid-April and mid-November the house will be …
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Eve Joseph joins fellow writers Yvonne Blomer, Lorna Crozier, Cecily Nicholson and Jason Stefanik for this much anticipated Whistler Writers Festival event. Learn more here.
Multi-award winning poets Raymond Antrobus, Ilya Kaminsky and Carcanet debutante Lisa Kelly share the stage to perform their latest work. The event explores both the poets’ personal experiences of d/Deafness as well as looking at a wider political and historical context in which d/Deaf communities have been marginalised. Learn more …
The competition offers a $1,500 prize for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer, and $1,500 for Best Suite by a Writer at Any Career Point. The total page length of the suite submission is not to exceed 16 pages. It is urged that a submitted suite be complete work, not …
Award-winning poets Anne Boyer (author of A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (author of HEAVEN IS ALL GOODBYES) will share the podium for our first Vocarium reading of the season. A reception and book-signing will follow the event. Learn more here.