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Toronto Poetry Slam Featuring Kahsenniyo

Soulpepper Theatre 50 Tank House Lane, Toronto, Ontario

Get ready to snap those fingers and clap it up for poets hitting the mic once again. Join us August 14th at Soul Pepper Theatre (new venue) with our amazing feature poet Kahsenniyo from Six Nations. It will be a night to remember! Key details: Time: Show 8:00pm | Doors 7:00pm …

$12.75

Call for Submissions: Dear Yusef (edited by John Murillo & Nicole Sealey)

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John Murillo and Nicole sealey are editing, for Wesleyan University Press, an anthology dedicated to Yusef Komunyakaa, who received our 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award. Please consider submitting: Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa Edited by John Murillo and Nicole Sealey Wesleyan …

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Berton House Writers’ Residency: Deadline to Apply

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It could be the best two months of your life — a time to reflect, to discover the Yukon, and to fully dedicate yourself to your work-in-progress. Berton House is situated in Dawson City, Yukon, on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Located in the childhood home of iconic …

The Other Futures Award 2022

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The Other Futures Award is given annually to an innovative, adventurous full-length work that challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form. We are interested in writing that imagines new lived or literary possibilities, and questions established paradigms. The winner will receive publication with Futurepoem and an honorarium of …

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Authors on Authors: Carissa Halton & Michael Hingston

Through the month of August, the Writers Guild of Alberta will be streaming prerecorded author interviews in our new Authors on Authors series. August 17 will focus on Research with Carissa Halton and Michael Hingston.

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