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Title: Summer Sport Poetry Competition submission deadline

Location: Canada
Description: Go for poetic gold! Pick any summer sport, any style, any form. Bring your competitive spirit. Established poets and first-time participants welcome.

Winners to be judged by Griffin-nominated poet Priscila Uppal. Three winners will be chosen and awarded “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” prize packs. The poem that takes “gold” will be published online and in print in Literary Review of Canada.

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Date: September 10, 2012

Title: Irish Times Poetry Now award winner announced

Location: Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Description: The €5,000 prize has been presented annually for the past seven years for the best single volume published in the previous 12 months. The winner will be announced in The Irish Times on Saturday, September 8th, and an award ceremony will be held at this year’s Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Mountains to Sea book festival.

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Date: September 8, 2012

Title: Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival

Location: Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Description: Dún Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) is not a name that trips off the literary tongue. DLR is not Bloomsbury, the Parisian Left Bank or the Village in New York. Or isn’t it?

DLR has been the birthplace and inspiration for many of Ireland’s most influential, entertaining and popular writers. In 2012, the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival celebrates its fourth season.

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Start Date: September 4, 2012
End Date: September 9, 2012

Title: Robin Blaser Poetry Award submission deadline

Location: Canada and International
Description: The Capilano Review invites entries for our fall contest. The contest’s judges, Miriam Nichols and Sharon Thesen, have provided a thematic statement for this year’s contest:

Throughout his writing life, Robin Blaser repeatedly turned to the sacred as a meditation on otherness: the world does not appear in his poems and essays as an economy of the Same, but as a dialogue among differences. In “Poetry and Positivisms,” he writes that “our cultural condition has a great deal to do with the nature of the sacred and that poetry of a certain order returns again and again to a discourse of cosmos with new attentions and cares.” Considering Blaser’s work on the other in the Image-Nation poems and in his essays, how might such a “discourse of cosmos” be articulated now?

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Date: August 15, 2012

Title: Poetry & Conversation at Enoch Pratt Free Library

Location: Baltimore, Maryland, US
Description: The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland offers a Poetry & Conversation evening as part of its ongoing presentation of classes, events, exhibits and meetings.

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Date: August 8, 2012

Title: Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival

Location: Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England
Description: The Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival offers a great line-up of headlining artists, outdoor performances, public participation and sparkling entertainment making up an exciting programme of events that leaves Stratford saturated in verse and the spoken word.

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Start Date: July 4, 2012
End Date: August 6, 2012

Title: Kootenay Literary Competition winners announced / awards ceremony

Location: Kootenays region, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Kootenay region residents can submit their best works of fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, with prizes awarded to first and second place winners. Along with cash prizes, winners also receive helpful critiques from the judges, to help improve their writing, and their winning entries are published in the competition anthology.

Learn more here.

Date: January 18, 2013

Title: Kootenay Literary Competition winners contacted

Location: Kootenays region, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Kootenay region residents can submit their best works of fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, with prizes awarded to first and second place winners. Along with cash prizes, winners also receive helpful critiques from the judges, to help improve their writing, and their winning entries are published in the competition anthology.

Learn more here.

Date: January 11, 2013

Title: Kootenay Literary Competition submission deadline

Location: Kootenays region, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Kootenay region residents can submit their best works of fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, with prizes awarded to first and second place winners. Along with cash prizes, winners also receive helpful critiques from the judges, to help improve their writing, and their winning entries are published in the competition anthology.

Learn more here.

Date: November 10, 2012

Title: Lavinia Greenlaw reads at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomes over 800 authors in over 750 events each year. Lavinia Greenlaw will read from her most recent collection, The Casual Perfect, and she’ll be joined by American writer Marie Howe.

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Date: August 25, 2012