Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: Winston Collins / Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem submission deadline
Location: Canada
Description: This annual prize is in memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The prize will perpetuate his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing.
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Date: October 12, 2012
Title: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award winners announced
Location: London, England
Description: Successful entrants for either the Top 15 or 85 Commended spots for the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award will be announced to the public on the 4th October, National Poetry Day.
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Date: October 4, 2012
Title: National Poetry Day
Location: London, England
Description: Join the Poetry Society and Southbank Centre for National Poetry Day Live, a cosmic celebration of poetry with Stars as its theme. All afternoon, there’s a rolling programme of free readings by top poets, including Dannie Abse, Simon Barraclough, Megan Beech, John Cooper Clarke, Charlotte Higgins, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Grace Nichols, Mario Petrucci, Christopher Reid, Rachel Rooney and Helen Mort. Come and hear your favourite writers, and discover new names, at this friendly annual event.
Date: October 4, 2012
Title: WordFest
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Description: WordFest’s main event is a six-day literary festival that features upwards of 70 writers from the local, national and international stage. The Festival has approximately 60 separate events and attracts an audience of over 14,000. Some events also offer programming in multiple languages such as French and Spanish. Festival events take place across Calgary and in Banff through founding production partner, The Banff Centre.
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Start Date: October 9, 2012
End Date: October 14, 2012
Title: Berton House Writers-in-Residence application deadline
Location: Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Description: Berton House is both a destination and an opportunity to leave behind the familiar and avoid the distractions that intrude on a writer’s day. Dawson City, Yukon provides a historically impressive setting where a writer can concentrate on her or his work or just get away to think.
Professional Canadian writers who have published at least one book and are established in any creative literary discipline (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play/screenwriting, journalism) may apply for residency.
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Date: October 5, 2012
Title: Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page release date
Location: Canada
Description: Journey with No Maps by Sandra Djwa (published by McGill-Queen’s University Press) is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade’s research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada’s best-loved and most influential writers. “A borderline being,” as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery.
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Date: October 1, 2012
Title: Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest submission deadline
Location: International
Description: The Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books welcomes poetry in any style or theme, and offers a range of prizes. Learn more here.
Date: September 30, 2012
Title: The Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice voting closes
Location: Canada
Description: The Walrus Poetry Prize offers prizes of $5,000 and $1,000 respectively for poems that win juried and readers’ choice competitions.
Learn more here and vote for the Readers’ Choice here.
Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Poetry off the Shelf: Red, White & Blue: Poets on Politics
Location: Chicago, Illnois, US
Description: Part of a national series, this program explores the role of politics in the literary landscape today. Poets Suji Kwock Kim, Li-Young Lee and D. Nurske will take part, and Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America, will moderate.
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Date: September 27, 2012
Title: Brooklyn Book Festival
Location: Brooklyn, New York, US
Description: The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
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Date: September 23, 2012