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 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.
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 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 …
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 …
Poets and writers, join the Mississauga Writers Group at their next Free Writers Workshop, monthly meeting and Random Acts of Poetry. Share your enthusiasm and works and be part of the group's next anthology. 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 …
For emerging poets, this contest only accepts submissions from authors with fewer than two full length collections out at the time of submission. The winning poet will be awarded $3000 and publication on Palette Poetry. Second and third place will win $300 & $200 respectively, as well as publication. Guest …
The Writer in Residence at the University of the Fraser Valley (also known as the Kuldip Gill Writing Fellowship) term lasts for eleven weeks, between January and April each year. Candidates should have a substantial publishing record, including two books (or the equivalent) with a recognized publisher. The program aims …
The Cobourg Poetry Workshop Third Thursday Reading Series welcomes guest poet Victoria Butler, Poet Laureate, City of Barrie and local poets Marion Fuessel and Jessica Outram, Poet Laureate, Town of Cobourg. Learn more here.
Join the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors for a reading of 'The Mask of Anarchy' written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in response to the Peterloo massacre which occurred in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819. Professor Ian Haywood of the University of Roehampton will discuss the poem’s historic context. …
Lilla presents Idris Anderson, Kate Gray, Tak Kendrick, Missy Ladygo, Gigi Little, and Anis Mojgani reading on the theme of Seek. Join them on the beautiful East Terrace at Portland’s Leach Botanical Garden. Learn more here.
Breathing Space is a summer evening series for short readings and performances in any language. In-progress, experimental, or unfinished work is welcome, new collaborative work is enthusiastically encouraged, trying things out is invited. What we hope is to create room to be unsure and that be okay. There will be …
This course, led by Deryn Rees-Jones and Katrina Naomi, will draw on a range of examples from contemporary poetry that could assist participants to develop their own writing, as well as consider various ways in which one might respond to political circumstance, both with reference to the wider world and …
Hear established and emerging poets read their poems outdoors under the park's London Plane trees. This event features the following poets: James Arthur, Jim Johnstone, Michael Prior and Robin Richardson. 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 …
Rhina P. Espaillat reads from And After All and Toni Treadway reads from Late Harvest, followed by book signings. Learn more here.
Enjoy an evening of poetry by Kim Fahner and Kelly Norah Drukker. These two poets will share their work, and then copies will be available for sale and signing. Light refreshments will also be served. Learn more here.
Each year we invite our audience to be challenged, be entertained, to learn and be inspired through a buzzing program of storytelling, conversation and discussion, intellectual debate, educational programs, live performance, music and art events. The Festival includes events for people of all ages and more than a quarter of …
Erasure poetry begins with an existing piece of text. Letters, words and punctuation are removed—or erased. What is left behind is a new stand-alone poem, one that both complements and gives new meaning to the Erasure Text. The Erasure Text for the 2019 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest is an excerpt …