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Title: Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Description: In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.

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Start Date: September 21, 2012
End Date: September 29, 2012

Title: The Malahat Review’s Twitter Monostich Contest deadline

Location: Canada
Description: Send your one-line, 140 character (or less) poems to The Malahat Review via Twitter @malahatreview. Enter as many times as you like, but each monostich must only be tweeted once for the duration of the contest. Winners receive a prize of a free subscription to Plenitude magazine and four new books (donated by Canadian publishers).

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Date: September 10, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Vancouver

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

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Start Date: September 28, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Lethbridge

Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

Learn more here.

Date: September 23, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Saskatoon

Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

Learn more here.

Date: September 23, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Kitchener

Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

Learn more here.

Date: September 23, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Halifax

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

Learn more here.

Date: September 23, 2012

Title: The Word On the Street – Toronto

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.

Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012

Title: Poets Read at Governors Island

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Yusef Komunyakaa, Tan Lin, Paul Muldoon and Brenda Shaughnessy will read from their work amid large-scale steel sculptures by Mark di Suvero on Governors Island.

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Date: September 22, 2012

Title: Lecture: Portraits of Writers: David Harsent on Seamus Heaney

Location: London, England
Description: Inspired by the display On Paper: Portraits of Writers, poet and script-writer David Harsent discusses the work of Seamus Heaney. David will focus on a number of poems that highlight Heaney’s unique gift for writing.

This event is a joint presentation of the National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Society of Literature.

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Date: September 13, 2012