The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence is now open! The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence serves to honour the memory of Austin Clarke (1934-2016). Clarke was, above all else, an exceptional writer, one who disrupted the expectations of what Canadian literature could and should become. His literary career …
Award winning author of 23 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Dionne Brand, joins us to discuss her new novel, Salvage - her first work of non-fiction since the release of her groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return over twenty years ago. In Salvage, Brand interrogates the colonial, racist tropes found in …
Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series. Join us on September 25th for a Cross Pollinations event on the theme of Indigenous health and place-based care. This event will feature a …
The ‘Princess of Black Poetry’ Nikki Giovanni and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Fred Moten will bring their genius to Tallahassee for two days of musing about the future of Black artistic expression and activism, including a talk from Moten, a screening of the Sundance-winning GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT …
Poet, translator, and teacher George McWhirter was Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate, and holds a startlingly impressive list of awards and honours since then, most recently as translator from Spanish of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Mexican novelist, activist, and journalist Homero Aridjis. In conversation with author …