A tram running on Bucharest’s line 1 will host an interactive poetry library between September 10 and October 1, as part of the Poetry Tram project of Arta nu Musca (Art Doesn’t Bite) organization, in a partnership with the Bucharest City Hall and the capital’s public transport company STB. Those …
Canadian artist Doris McCarthy (1910-2010) recognized that her home and studio in Toronto, Fool’s Paradise, nurtures the creative process. She wanted other artists to have the same opportunity to live and work at the site that had fostered so much of her own artistic expression. To that end, the Ontario …
The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence is awarded to the single best submission in the respective categories of poetry and fiction. This year, the writing contest will be judged by Michael Redhill (fiction) and Souvankham Thammavongsa (poetry). This year the prize includes $1,000 for the winners in fiction …
Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later became the kernel of her acclaimed collection Say Something Back (Picador). The poem’s prose counterpart Time Lived, Without Its Flow was initially published …
In June 2020, Poetry In Voice will publish the second issue of VOICES/VOIX, their student poetry journal. If you are a student in grades 9 through 12 (Sec. 3, 4 & 5 and CEGEP 1 in Quebec), you're encourage to send your original poems via their submission form. The journal …
Fred Cogswell mentored Candice James, the New Westminster poet laureate and a founding member of Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS). He spent his last years in New Westminster, writing his last books here. The award is intended to honour his dedication both to the craft of poetry and to …
The Capilano Review‘s annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award began in 2011 to honour Robin Blaser’s role in the formation of West Coast poetics. Each year a Canadian poet is invited to draw on Blaser’s work to create a focus for the contest and to act as the contest judge. This …
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 fourth annual Victoria Festival of Authors launches Fall 2019 with a fantastic lineup of local and national authors. Join in for a week of readers and writers celebrating words and engaging with ideas. Listen to inspiring readings, check out the diverse voices on discussion panels, and attend workshops to …
The AfterWords Literary Festival, which debuts in October 2019, is the creation of a small volunteer group of professional writers keen to bring the very best Canadian and international writers to audiences in eastern Canada. They’re primarily interested in presenting (and being in the audience for) conversations among writers about …
National Poetry Day is a UK-wide celebration of poetry taking place every October. Each year there’s a different theme and in 2019 the theme is Truth. National Poetry Day generates an explosion of activity nationwide, thousands of amazing events across the UK – in schools, libraries, bookshops and hospitals, on …
In this eight-week writing workshop participants will be writing poetry and personal narrative (prose) exploring illness and disability. Through close reading, discussion of literary devices and workshop writing exercises and assignments, participants will work towards making their experiences of illness and disability speak to others in an evocative and possibly …
Arc Poetry Magazine was founded in 1978 by three professors at Carleton University in Ottawa, on the traditional and unceded territories of the Algonquin Nation. The magazine is proud to honour poets from this region, especially by presenting the Archibald Lampman Award to an outstanding collection of poetry by a …
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is 70 this year – the longest running Literature Festival in the world, and the first ever. Set up by G.A.M. Wilkinson, the council’s Spa and Entertainments manager, this small but perfectly formed town in the heart of the rolling Cotswold countryside gave birth to an …
The annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award (CMMA) is for the publisher of an outstanding example of pamphlet poetry published during the previous year. Established in 2001 in memory of Scottish publisher Callum Macdonald, this award was created to encourage, recognise and reward the publication of poetry in pamphlet form. Learn …
Come on down for the Coach House fall 2019 poetry reading at Knife Fork Book in their new swanky space at Artscape Youngplace on Shaw! The following poets will be featured reading from their new works: National Gallery by Jonathan Ball, This is the Emergency Present by Vincent Pagé, Vulgar …
Poetry Weekend is an annual gathering of poets in Fredericton, New Brunswick, usually on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Readings take place in Memorial Hall at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm Saturday and Sunday. Learn more here.
Founded in partnership with the Open Air Market at the Phoenix Public Market in 2018, Meet Your Literary Community is an annual celebration of local literature showcasing over 50 local authors, publishers, and other literary organizations from all across the Valley. Beyond meeting local authors and learning more about all …
Come to The Manx to celebrate the 20th year of the Plan 99 Reading Series with readings from Ken Babstock and Anita Lahey and to view "Fixative," a vernissage of evocative sketches by Ken Babstock on display for the month of October. Learn more here.
Introduced and moderated by Fanny Howe, this event will feature a reading and oral history conversation with the pioneering poet Bernadette Mayer (author of Midwinter Day and Poetry State Forest). A book-signing will follow the event. Learn more here.
This is the Toronto launch of the reissue of Heroine, Gail Scott's classic feminist novel, resonating in a world of increasing radicalization, featuring a new foreword by Eileen Myles. Gail will be joined by Zoe Whittall and Liz Howard who will be reading their favourite sections of Heroine. Learn more …
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 …
Lexicon Books is thrilled to host three wonderful poets: Kirby, also the owner/publisher of knife/fork/book, an all-poetry bookstore and publishing house in Toronto, with their newest book This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press); Annick MacAskill, author of No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press), critic and editor, and …
Poets’ Society of Hastings County North & Highlands East presents The Word Is Wild Literary Festival III. This year's festival features author and poet Sharon Berg, poet and vocalist Honey Novick, and science-fiction and fantasy novelist, Nina Munteanu, with music by Albert Saxby. The festival features poetry, books and music, …
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word began as a small festival in Ottawa in 2004. At that time, it was dubbed the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics. The first festival included six teams of poets and a small number of guests in attendance. In just nine short years, the festival grew from …
The TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) -St Edmund Hall Writer in Residence scheme for 2020 is designed to bring a BAME writer to the University of Oxford for the eight weeks of Hilary Term (January 19th through to March 14th 2020). St Edmund Hall, a small and …
From its advent, the mission of Sequestrum has been to feature new and emerging writers alongside literary heavyweights. With its New Writer Awards, hundreds in cash prizes and publication in a future issue of Sequestrum will be awarded to up-and-coming poets. This award is open only to writers who have …
PRISM has a total of four recurring contests: their annual Creative Non-Fiction competition, the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction and the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms. Each contest is open to all writers, international and Canadian. Each entry includes a one-year subscription …
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 raison d'être of Lunch Poems is to invite and welcome everyone to enjoy poetry in a relaxed and casual atmosphere: whether you are new to poetry or have had a long romance with it. Lunch Poems at SFU invites you to join them to lunch on words and feed …
A reading by three of the most dynamic and provocative performers in the genre: Joyelle McSweeney (author of TOXICON), Urayoán Noel (author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO), and Ronald V. Wilson (author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT). Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Learn more here.
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Co-sponsored with the School for Canadian Irish Studies, Writers Read Concordia presents Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe for an evening of Irish and Choctaw poetry, followed by a …
Join the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and the League of Canadian Poets for a reading by five Nova Scotian members of the League of Canadian Poets: Janet Barkhouse, Deirdre Dwyer, Chad Norman, Anne Simpson, and Margo Wheaton. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be …
The Al Purdy house on Roblin Lake near Ameliasburgh, Ontario is now the site of the A-Frame Residency Program, under which writers are offered a time and place to work in a location that is attractive and of historic significance. Each year between mid-April and mid-November the house will be …
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Eve Joseph joins fellow writers Yvonne Blomer, Lorna Crozier, Cecily Nicholson and Jason Stefanik for this much anticipated Whistler Writers Festival event. Learn more here.
Multi-award winning poets Raymond Antrobus, Ilya Kaminsky and Carcanet debutante Lisa Kelly share the stage to perform their latest work. The event explores both the poets’ personal experiences of d/Deafness as well as looking at a wider political and historical context in which d/Deaf communities have been marginalised. Learn more …
The competition offers a $1,500 prize for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer, and $1,500 for Best Suite by a Writer at Any Career Point. The total page length of the suite submission is not to exceed 16 pages. It is urged that a submitted suite be complete work, not …
The Vancouver Writers Fest’s flagship Festival welcomes local and international writers to stages on and around Granville Island for a week of literary events and immersive conversations for all ages. As Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig says of this year’s Fest, “We have created a week of events that will entertain …
Award-winning poets Anne Boyer (author of A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (author of HEAVEN IS ALL GOODBYES) will share the podium for our first Vocarium reading of the season. A reception and book-signing will follow the event. Learn more here.
Words Worth Books presents an evening of poetry with Tanis MacDonald and Moez Surani, reading from their most recent poetry collections, Mobile and Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real respectively. Learn more here.
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 …
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 Poetry London Reading Series, in partnership with the London Public Library, hosts monthly readings and poetry workshops in London, Ontario. They bring a diverse list of Canada’s finest poets into London for readings, as well as providing a wide range of poetry-related opportunities for local writers and poetry aficionados. …
Following a successful inaugural year, Spotlight Series returns to the Art Gallery of Northumberland in support of its growing art education initiative. Intimate and interactive, the 4-part artist series features local artists and their stories and passions for their art form from poetry, to opera, modern dance and animation film, …
The Toronto International Festival of Authors is an 11-day celebration of words and ideas for curious readers of every kind. Learn more here.
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Co-sponsored with x (Post) Colonial Ports Conference with CISSC, Writers Read Concordia presents writers David Chariandy and Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Learn more here.
Pivot Readings are well into Fall now, with their fourth installment for the new season, with some amazing readers: Terrence Abrahams, Carolyn Bennett and Nikki Reimer. Learn more here.
The 2019-2020 Sheridan College Writer-in-Residence will serve a term of six months (November to April). In addition to working on their own writing project, the Writer-in-Residence will provide creative leadership, mentoring, and public outreach in the area of creative writing and/or publishing (including class visits and public events), to members …
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Writers Read Concordia presents writer Kathryn Mockler, offering a reading and workshop on poetry and climate change activism. Learn more here.
The Ottawa International Writers Festival partners with the Plan 99 Reading Series for a late afternoon of stunning live poetry, with readings by Jacqueline Turner, K.B. Thors and Nikki Reimer. Learn more here.
The Department of English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University, McMaster University Library, and the Hamilton Public Library invite applications from Canadian creative writers for the position of Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence. At this time, they are calling for applicants for three, non-renewable positions, one in each of …
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 …
Join Audreys Books as they celebrate the poetic career of Billy-Ray Belcourt! This event will feature readings by both Billy-Ray Belcourt and his friends, who will each share and read the poems that they found most meaningful in their own lives. 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 …
The LaHave Review is an online poetry journal edited by Michael Goodfellow and will launch in December, 2019. Each issue will feature one poem per season, a biography of the poet, and an interview. The LaHave Review is named after the LaHave River in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. The river …
One of the biggest single poem competitions in the world, the National Poetry Competition is open to anyone aged 17 or older. The competition is for previously unpublished poems of up to 40 lines in length. This year's judges are Mona Arshi, Helen Mort and Maurice Riordan. Learn more here.
The Words Aloud Spoken Word and Storytelling Festival is a small but mighty regional event held in the southwestern Ontario village of Durham (pop. 2500), about an hour-and-a-half north of Guelph. Co-founded in 2004 by Liz Zetlin and Dawna Proudman, in response to a suggestion from Durham Art Gallery curator …
Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) magazine offers a poetry contest exclusively for writers under the age of 35. The YOUNG BUCK poetry prize will be awarded to the author of the single best submitted poem, along with $1000 and publication in CV2. Three honourable mentions will also be awarded, each with …
Words is committed to the advancement of accessibility in the arts, cultural participation within the community, and diversity in our programming. During the first weekend of November each year, Words brings the Southwestern Ontario region together for a celebration of creative ideas, artistic expression, and cultural diversity. Words features emerging …
The Malahat Review invites entries for its annual Open Season Awards in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction with prizes totalling $CAN 6000. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world, with a final deadline of midnight (PDT) on 1 November 2019. All entries are judged …
Poetry inPrint is a writer’s residency in a printmaker’s studio. Collaborating with local author Jacqueline Valencia, organizer of the Toronto Poetry Talks Symposium, this program pairs eight local visual artists, including members of the inPrint Collective, with eight local poets. Artists and poets are at various stages in their career, …
The Toronto Arts Council and the Toronto International Festival of Authors have partnered on Toronto Lit Up, an initiative designed to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. The programme also gives curious readers access to their local writing community. Toronto Lit Up book release parties take …