The Griffin Poetry Prize International and Canadian winners will be announced at a gala awards evening, and immediately shared via the Griffin Poetry Prize web site and social media channels. Take a look back at the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize winners. Join us on Facebook or here for a livestream …
Souvankham Thammavongsa and Beth Follett of Pedlar Press read recent poetry. Learn more here.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his bestselling novel The Sympathizer, hosts an evening featuring Vietnamese writers of the diaspora. Representing a variety of genres—fiction, poetry, comics, memoir, children’s literature—these writers are currently fellows at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Thi Bui (Berkeley, California), …
#TwitterPoetryClub meets on Twitter, on alternating Monday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST. Their formula is pretty simple: members share beloved or interesting poems by posting the poet's name, hashtagging "TwitterPoetryClub" and including an image of the poem and/or a link to the full text. Once a poem …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …