The Claire Harris Poetry Prize, a new initiative of Goose Lane’s icehouse poetry imprint, is designed to enhance the visibility of debut poetry collections by previously unpublished poets from Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities. This prize will be presented for the first time in 2024 and thereafter will be …
Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in …
Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50 Prairie Fire is giving centre stage to women writers over fifty! This special issue is a celebration that honours and recognizes the enormous contribution of living Canadian women writers, who have helped shape CanLit and continue to do so. If you are a woman, aged …
Join us on Monday, February 26th at 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT on Zoom for Translation Talks featuring D. M. Bradford in conversation with Donald Nicholson-Smith. Register here! Darby Minott Bradford is a poet, translator, and sometimes curator. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, was a finalist …
Please join us for the official virtual launch of Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets! We will be celebrating this multilingual conversation between fifteen poet-translators, connected through friendship, correspondence, and diasporic gathering—out February 15 with Litmus Press!✨ Featuring Hoda Adra, Omar Berrada, Sara Elkamel, Safaa Fathy, Soukaina Habiballah, Marilyn Hacker, Golan Haji, Kadhim J. Hassan, Pierre Joris, Mona Kareem, Souad …