Toronto’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series Featured poets: Tawhida Tanya Evanson & Ayomide Bayowa Featured dance artist: Paromita Kar Host: Bänoo Zan Open Mic Sign-up: 6:45 EST Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, author and multidisciplinary artist. Her two collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and …
For our Poetry Prize, send no more than three poems in a single document. The winner of the prize will be awarded $1000 and publication in an upcoming issue of Indiana Review. Each paid submission comes with a year-long subscription to Indiana Review. For non-US mailing addressees, please add $12 for postage ($7 …
Cambridge Literary Festival is a much-loved and regular highlight drawing large audiences from Cambridge and the rest of the UK. Thousands of wordsmiths, writers and authors have graced their festival stages and have enthralled, entertained, educated and sometimes enraged our audiences. They now welcome over 350 writers and speakers to Cambridge each year and stage events that cover a huge …
April 20, 2022 marks the first in-person Lunch Poems event in over two years! Please join us to enjoy readings by Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam with guests Adrienne Yeung and Britt McGillivray. Fiona Tinwei Lam Vancouver's sixth poet laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam has published three collections of poetry and a children’s book. …
Get Tickets Through Eventbrite Verses Festival of Words is at it again! We are bringing together a broad intersection of poetic artists, including spoken word and page poets, storytellers, singer-songwriters and improvisers, to celebrate the power of the spoken word. This year’s festival combines poetry with music inspired by a …
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10,000 students across Canada learned a poem by heart this year. School champions participated in online qualifiers and the 42 students who obtained the highest scores advanced to the semifinals, where their videos were judged by a panel of poets. The semi-finalists all received $250 each …
Join us on April 21st at 7:30 p.m. for the 2022 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Cherie Dimaline, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, Hunting By Stars, and Empire of Wild. Dimaline’s lecture is titled An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety. The event will take place at the TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS (masks strongly recommended). …
The Edmonton Poetry Festival is Edmonton’s annual celebration of poetry and verse. The best place to get a grasp on the basics and history of the festival is by reading our story. There, you’ll find a brief history of the festival with several points of interest. Additionally, the following links may …
The United States' largest literary event is back with an in-person event scheduled for this spring, April 23 and 24, on the lovely campus of the University of Southern California. Join us for one-on-one conversations, exciting panels, readings by your favorite authors, musical performances, and so much more!
19:00 workshop by Sarah Tsiang 20:00 EST open mic. 20:30 Sarah Tsiang and Hari Alluri On Tuesday, April 26, Tree is excited to welcome featured readers Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang and Hari Alluri, hosted by Brandon Wint. Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is the author of Grappling Hook with Palimpsest Press (2022), Status …
Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Toronto’s most diverse and brave monthly poetry reading and open mic series. It was founded by Bänoo Zan in November 2012, two years after she immigrated to Canada. Since then, we have been bridging the gap among diverse Toronto poetry communities and have so far …
Claudia Rankine was a 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize judge. She is Professor of Creative Writing at NYU, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the author of many works, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), The White Card: A Play (2019),and Just Us (2020). NYU English's Creative Reading Series will be a hybrid event. …
The Academy of American Poets annual gala presents luminaries from across the arts sharing favorite poems for National Poetry Month. About this event Poetry & the Creative Mind is presented by the Academy of American Poets, the nation's leading organization championing poets and poetry. This special event, which features actors, …
University of Alberta Press is pleased to announce its annual event Literary Cocktails. Please join us online on April 28, 2022 at 6 pm MT. Everyone is welcome! This year, the virtual poetry reading event will be hosted by Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Artistic Producer, Shima Robinson. The event will feature readings …
Join us for an evening of poetry and music. In the Winter 2002 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine , the 1st Annual Diana Brebner Prize winner was announced. After 20 years of administering this award for an exceptional poem by an Ottawa-based poet not yet published in book form, Arc 97 looks back at the …
Canadian Individual Poetry Slam is a nationally recognized poetry slam. This year, the competition will take place online and in-person , as part of the Verses Festival of Words. 16 poets representing spoken word series and regions across Canada will compete in a head-to-head double knock out tournament, presenting poems that …
Vallum’s Chapbook Series has published work from Bhanu Kapil, Sina Queyras, Nicole Brossard, George Elliott Clarke, Erín Moure, Franz Wright, Fanny Howe, John Kinsella, and many more. Past winners of the Vallum Chapbook Award have won the bpNichol Chapbook Prize, been nominated for the Nelson Ball Prize for poetry of …
April 30th 2022 will see Poetry Spring at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets, including two past Griffin Poetry Prize winners: Valzhyna Mort and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Other guests include Anita Pati and Denise Saul, with a workshop by Holly Corfield …
Ani Gjika is among the most prolific and renowned translators of contemporary Albanian literature today. Translator of a wide range of Albanian authors, sensibilities, and literary genres, and a poet herself, her work is a testament to the versatility, cultural mediation or brokering, and nimbleness that is central to the …
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates Canadian and international authors every year at its flagship festival in May. This year’s festival will be held online from May 1 – 7, 2022 with a few in-person events held in Brampton, Ontario May 6 and 7 at the Rose Theatre. Click …