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 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 …
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 launch of Gordon Hill Press' very first season will be held at the brand new Knife | Fork | Book space at Artscape Youngplace. The launch will feature readings by all their fall authors – Roxanna Bennett, Gary Barwin, Danny Jacobs, and Tom Prime. It should be a great …
Prairie Fire is now accepting entries for the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Contests. Although the deadline is November 30 (postmarked), you may submit anytime. The 2019 poetry judge is Jennifer Still. Learn more here.
Minola Review's inaugural Poetry and Fiction Contests are now open! Enter to win the grand prize of $750 in each category, plus publication in Minola Review. Submissions will be accepted until December 1, 2019. The contests are open to Canadian and international women and non-binary writers anywhere in the world, …
Named “Canada’s coolest poet” by Time Out London, Priscila Uppal was a tour-de-force and her poetry was anything but sit-down, tame, or by-the-book. She often used humour to confront darker issues head on, wasn’t afraid to laugh at our beautiful and messy world, and found joy in the glamorous through …
Nelson Ball (b. 1942) was a much beloved Canadian poet, bookseller, and publisher. He died on August 16, 2019, in Brantford. He was the author of dozens of poetry books and chapbooks and ephemera, published by Coach House, ECW, Mansfield, Curvd H&z, Apt. 9, Proper Tales, Monks Press, Book*hug, Weed/Flower, …
Atlantic Canada's international literary journal The Fiddlehead offers $2,000 for the Best Poem, to be judged this year by Ali Blythe, Kayla Geitzler, and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Learn more here.
The Writers’ Trust Mentorship program provides support, guidance, and one-on-one instruction to a young, developing writer under 35 from an established writer. Three mentors are selected by the Writers’ Trust, each working in one of the fields of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Each mentor selects one mentee from a …
Come give a warm welcome to Brick's Winter issue, with readings from contributors Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ken Babstock, a celebration of translation, and more. 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 …
"I have all these open-ended questions and by December I'm supposed to have them answered!" When you come to the open-ended end of things--the degree, the course, the relationship--how much can be planned, how much can be known? In this workshop as the year ends, Writers' Co-op will explore the …
Jonathan C. Creasy (editor of BLACK MOUNTAIN POEMS/New Directions, 2019) explores two remarkable artistic and educational experiments of the 20th century: Black Mountain College and the Cambridge-based Poets' Theatre. Distinct as they were, both reveal continuing concerns in art, poetry, performance & politics. The event culminates in the screening of …
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival came into being in 2002 and was the first and is the biggest international platform for short films based on poems – poetry films. Every two years it offers poets, film-makers and festival organisers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange of …
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 hosts a feminist writing panel featuring Sue Sinclair, Sue Goyette and Larissa Lai in conversation with Sina Queyras as part of Writing Lives. Learn more here.
With the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contests, students choose classic and contemporary poems from the junior anthology for grades 6-8. Then they learn them deeply, commit them to memory, hone their recitation skills, and compete for over $75,000 in travel and prizes. Learn more …
The Scottish Poetry Library is proud to present its Christmas event, Die Bard, a poetic rendering of the classic action-slash-Christmas movie Die Hard. Last year, they transformed It’s A Wonderful Life into a sequence of newly commissioned poems, and this year they’re repeating the trick with Bruce Willis’ finest moment. …
Publishers and authors may now submit books published in 2019 to the following awards: Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (for debut books of poetry) Pat Lowther Memorial Award (for books of poetry by women) Raymond Souster Award (for new poetry books by active League members) Learn more here.
Jim Johnstone joins Citadel to host a talk about the Canadian publishing industry. Topics of discussion will include how to prepare (full-length and chapbook) manuscripts that will stand out, where to find the right publisher, and what editors look for in submissions. With over 15 years of experience in micropress, …
Renowned poets and translators Robert Hass and Forrest Gander take the stage together for an evening immersed in the power of language as part of the Merwin Conservancy's Green Room arts and ecology salon Memorial Series, in honor of the organization’s founder, the late W.S. Merwin. Learn more here.
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 …
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 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 …
The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Award in 1987 to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing. This prestigious Award is the province’s leading award for literature. The quality of Ontario authors and writing speaks for itself …
One of the UK’s most successful spoken word collectives, Loud Poets return with their monthly showcase of the UK’s top spoken word talent. This is make some noise, fist-thumping, pint-drinking, side-tickling, heart-wrenching poetry. This is poetry for the masses. Learn more here.
Today is the first of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2020. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than June 30, 2019 for books published between January 1 and June 30, 2019. Learn more here about how to enter and how to obtain entry forms.
The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. The prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 …
The perfect candidates will be wildly in love with stories, and fascinated with how authentic community building can create a more humane and beautiful world. They will know in their bones that when people are truly heard in their creative expressions, they become more whole, more courageous, and more kind. …
There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace – what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility – over 150 poets, performers, and …