The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 will be £5,000. In addition the winner will be invited to read at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University for the annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry, provided with travel, accommodation, and an honorarium. Learn more here. Return to …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
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 …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 21st year, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family …
Today is the first of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2018. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than June 30, 2017 for books published between January 1 and June 30, 2017. Learn more here about how to enter and how to obtain entry forms. Return …
The Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country BUT at least one of the winners will be a debutante (with no chapbook or book published previously). Up to 25 - 50 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended". The …
Entries are open for the Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £1000 for a single poem. Poet Clare Pollard is the guest judge. 50 poems will be longlisted and published in Live Canon's 2017 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
The Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver seeks to hire an Adjunct Professor to teach CRWR 401-001: Writing of Poetry 1. The successful candidate will teach poetry writing across a variety of forms. CRWR 401 is a two-hour workshop course, requiring additional office hours, with …
The next Dead Poets reading will take place at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch on July 9th, 2017, from 3-5 PM. The reading will be hosted in the Alice MacKay Room, which is located one floor below the entry concourse. It will feature: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 …
The TS Eliot Festival is an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions on the occasion of the centenary of TS Eliot’s first published collection, Prufrock and Other Observations. The celebrated novelist Ali Smith will read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and discuss it with biographer Adam Begley. …
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In July, they examine the eclogue, a short dialogue or soliloquy that most often takes a pastoral theme. The group will read and discuss a wide variety of eclogues. A creative …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
From climbing Himalayan peaks to scaling the big walls of Yosemite, program participants have canoed across Canada, surfed down the coast of the Baja, cycled the Silk Road, almost perished on Mt. McKinley, and kayaked around Greenland. Their stories share themes of both isolation and comradeship, close encounters with death, …
This two-week literary residency nurtures a new frame of contemporary Canadian writing. Increasingly, today’s writer is participating in acts of acknowledgement, reclamation, restoration, and resurgence regarding minority, diasporic, and Indigenous histories. This year, 2017, provides an opportunity to take pause, pivot, and create space to think about these histories, and …
The Saskatchewan Festival of Words (established in 1996) is a registered charity and non-profit organization that holds an annual literary festival the third weekend in July with over 50 events over 4 days in and around historic downtown Moose Jaw. The festival showcases literary talent from all over Canada including …
In commemoration of Margaret Laurence, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie and the community’s ongoing literary heritage, the Lakefield Literary Festival showcases Canadian authors and promotes the joy of reading and writing among children and adults. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Vallum is accepting original and previously unpublished poetry submissions for the Vallum Award for Poetry 2017. The judge this year is Nicole Brossard. An important voice in poetry over the last 40 years, she has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and has twice won the Governor General's Award …
Room is Canada’s oldest literary journal by and about women. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases fiction, poetry, reviews, art work, interviews and profiles about the female experience. Many of our contributors are at the beginning of …
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote. Learn more here. …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Founded in 2016, Ore Samples is a Canadian writers series curated and managed by a volunteer director. An excellent volunteer advisory board is in place. All funding and support received by Ore Samples go to the writers and performers featured in the series. Ore welcomes Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott …
It's the finale of words(on)stages' third season and they're closing it off with a big ol' bang, featuring three incredible poets, as well as Toronto-based finalists of the 2017 Blodwyn Memorial Prize. They've got Kate Hargreaves, Domenica Martinello, and Phoebe Wang gracing the stage, as well as those secret Blodwyn …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Bookstock supports the cultural richness and diversity of the Upper Valley and celebrates authors and poets, both established and emerging, from our region. New England is home to many talented writers representing diverse genres, from national Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to emerging young writers and those who have …
West Cork itself is one of the most beautiful art galleries on the planet. At every turn there are incredible vistas and on every corner you are likely to bump into a practitioner of the arts. The seventh Skibbereen Arts Festival pays homage to this fabric of our community with …
Blackwell's Bookshop is delighted to host the launch of a bumper Scottish edition of The Café Press, an American poetry journal. Guest edited by Edinburgh Makar Christine de Luca, their Scottish Poetry Issue is a triumphant celebration of the fine variety of voices Scotland has to offer. Learn more here. …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The Love Poetry Festival was the brainchild of the poet George Elliott Clarke, Canada's seventh national poet laureate. Co-organizers George and Michelle Alfano, Founder of the (Not So) Nice Italian Girls & Friends Reading Series, worked together to create the first annual Love Poetry Festival in honour of Milton Acorn …
The POP Montreal International Music Festival and Matrix Magazine have teamed up for the tenth consecutive year to bring you the most innovative and exciting literary competition on Earth. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary by opening up submissions to Europe and featuring one of fiction's rising stars and an …
The Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence program is a residency for Canadian writers. Wilfrid Laurier University offers both shorter, "intensive" residency opportunities and longer residencies, depending on available funds and local planning initiatives from year to year. All Canadian writers of established literary reputation in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or drama …
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is an opportunity for any young poet aged 11-17 to accelerate their writing career. Since it was founded in 1998 the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting new voices, such as Helen Mort, a successful poet whose …
Resonance is a monthly reading series of original creative writing and other text based collaborations. It's based at Café Résonance, Montreal. This month's readings are by Stevie Howell, Tessa Liem, Cam Terwilliger, Katharine Beeman and Darryl Whetter. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Imagined Landscapes is a collaboration between 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Simpson and photographer John Berridge. "The poems of Imagined Landscapes were written specifically for this exhibit. While the photos and poems have their own integrity, rather than illustrating each other, they “speak” in a conversation. The inspiration comes …
The Fables for the 21st Century program invites emerging and established Canadian writers to explore and re-imagine our individual and collective identities, through the creation of an anthology of 10 stories. Emerging and established writers of any genre who wish to create an original short piece for inclusion in the …
South Shore Poetry Night features readings by Alice Burdick, Michelle Elrick, Cory Lavender, Nanci Lee and Beth Munroe. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The RL Poetry Award is an initiative of Ræd Leaf Poetry India, a not-for-profit trust that supports poetry and allied arts. The award celebrates the enduring significance of poetry across the world, and its continuing significance to world literature. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The intent of the Back Roads Reading series is to bring regional and national writers and poets to audiences in the Northeast Kingdom and Eastern Townships in Vermont, so people have the chance to hear authors read their work and to meet them personally. After each reading everyone is invited …