Hear established and emerging poets read their poems outdoors under the park's London Plane trees, featuring the poets Forrest Gander, Ani Gjika and Richard Sieburth. Produced in partnership with Poetry Society of America, all readings are free and open to the public. Books are available for purchase at the event …
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 Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 23rd year in 2019, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, …
An evening of poetry and stories explores the body as a site of power and resistance. What does the body mean to you? Who draws the boundaries of what the body is or what it could potentially be? Join us for an evening of poetry and story-telling exploring the relationship …
Founded in 1975, the Literary Press Group (LPG) is a not-for-profit association of Canadian literary book publishers. With a current membership of about sixty Canadian-owned and -operated publishing houses, the LPG's mandate is to support the growth of Canadian literary culture. The LPG helps member publishers sell, distribute, and market …
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 …
carte blanche, founded in 2004, is the official online magazine of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. They are celebrating over 15 years of promoting poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, translation, photography, fiction, and literary commentary from Quebec, Canada, and around the world. carte blanche seeks a Poetry Editor to work both independently …
Literature is haunted by that which covers two-thirds of our planet, the sea. Its myths and marine life offer inexhaustible inspiration for writers. This course, led by Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, delights in the sea’s influence on poetry and considers different approaches to reflecting its pervading presence in our …
The West Cork Literary Festival features workshops, readings, seminars, family events and more. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Carson is among the writers attending this year's festival. Learn more here.
Uncover your creativity at a poetry workshop with the writer of incisive, intimate poetry collection The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice 2018). Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and he is the recipient …
Since 2002 the international ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has been taking place every two years. In 2019, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is inviting entries for its first competition to find the best poetry films from Germany! Eligible for entry are short films (co-) produced in Germany in or after …
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.
Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be …
Get profane with Inua Ellams to learn how four letter expletives can actually enrich your writing. In this workshop participants will discuss and dissect the pros and cons of using, and the various approaches to writing, bad language. Learn more here.
Mansfield Press is launching the following new titles: Laura Cok — Doubter’s Hymnal Tim Conley — Unless Acted Upon Paola Ferrante — What To Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack James Hawes — Breakfast with a Heron rob mclennan — A Halt, Which is Empty Learn more here.
Poets, film-makers and fashion-designers present open-ended experiments in Creative Journalism. For readers to be re-enchanted with the world, we have to go beyond zombie news ... Creative Journalism Factual, Lyrical, Truthful As told by today’s media, the world we live in reads like a closed book. Can it be re-opened, …
From July 16–28, 2019, the University of the South will host the 30th session of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The Conference will gather a distinguished faculty to provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in poetry, fiction, and playwriting. This year’s faculty includes poets B.H. Fairchild, Robert Hass, …
Mansfield Press is launching the following new titles: Laura Cok — Doubter’s Hymnal Tim Conley — Unless Acted Upon Paola Ferrante — What To Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack James Hawes — Breakfast with a Heron rob mclennan — A Halt, Which is Empty Learn more here.
In July, Poets Corner Reading Series is fortunate to have not one, not two, but three featured poets. Two out-of-towners and one local will be stepping up to the microphone. And what do they have in common? A natural gift for writing poetry, yet you are going to hear some …
Join the Friends of the Free Library of New Hope Solebury (FOL) on the third Thursday in June in the garage bay of Ferry Market (that's the one right out front by the street) for our Poetry Don't Slam (that beer) Event! The FOL is excited to provide a space …
Witness the transformative power and diversity of Singapore poetry at Poetry Festival Singapore 2019. Centred around the theme 'Metamorphosis', the festival takes stock of how far we have come, while shining a spotlight on emerging talents and exciting new trends. Come celebrate the diversity of Singapore literature at multilingual readings …
The Bengaluru Poetry Festival is Bangalore’s only literary event dedicated to poetry. Organized by the not-for-profit Bengaluru Poetry Festival trust, the event has seen 3 back-to-back successful years, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and has attracted thousands of poetry lovers each year. The three years of the festival has seen participation …
Cherie Dimaline and Layli Long Soldier are part of the entrancing lineup for this series of readings, open to the public. Learn more here.
Port Eliot is a festival unlike any other. You're invited to this little corner of Cornwall from 25th to 28th July 2019 when the festival will celebrate words, music, imagination, ideas, nature, food, fashion, flowers, laughter, exploration, fun and all that is good in the world! Writers appearing at the …
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 …
This workshop-based program embraces multiple genres, providing structured support for new creative writers wanting to improve their writing skills. Four faculty work closely with eight participants in one of these genres: first chapter novel, creative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction. Participants read the submissions of fellow group members, then give …
The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry pamphlet contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest — this year’s judge is poet and teacher Airea D. Matthews. Learn more here.
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is now open. This year's judges - Raymond Antrobus and Jackie Kay - cannot wait to read your poems. It is free to enter to anyone in the world aged 11-17 years old. Learn more here.
The autumn issue of mpt (Modern Poetry in Translation) will have an Extinction focus. The publication welcomes translated poems from any language about threatened species and ecosystems, and also hope to give a platform to translations from indigenous and endangered languages. Learn more here.
The summer treasure hunt is back. Join Live Canon, from anywhere in the world, for an August full of poetry. Discover new writers, revisit old favourites, and get a smidge competitive about it all. Each day you receive a an email, introducing you to the work of a particular poet. …
Scottish arts company I Am Loud Productions are delighted to return for a sixth consecutive year to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Presenting Loud Poets: Best of Fringe, they are featuring 69 fantastic poets performing across 24 shows throughout August. Learn more here.
Poets Anonymous originated in February 1990 at Ashburton Library, Addiscombe as a house-to-house workshop to encourage poetry writers to share their poems and offer constructive criticism. Some people attended as an aid to getting themselves into print, other to help one another, others for the pure pleasure of enjoying poetry. …
The Battle at the Border is here. There will be teams from Canada, and the US coming together to battle for Team Slam supremacy right by the border in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Look for teams from Buffalo, Rochester, Toronto, Burlington, St Catherines, Jamestown, and Albany. Learn more here.
At this series of poetry workshops at Sidmouth Folk Festival, participants will be encouraged to write their own poems using a series of prompts and guidance from Ilse Pedler, an experienced workshop leader. Poems, pictures and games will be used as starting points. The workshops are all stand-alone and at …