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Title: Manchester Poetry Prize deadline for entries

Description: Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching the third Manchester Poetry Prize – a major international literary competition celebrating excellence in creative writing.

The Manchester Poetry Prize will award a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best poems submitted. The competition is open internationally to both new and established writers aged 16 or over; there is no upper age limit.

Get all the details here.

Date: August 31, 2012

Title: Queensland Poetry Festival

Location: South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Description: Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) supports and promotes a poetry culture in Queensland. Established in 1997, QPF is Australia’s finest annual literary event and has an established reputation for excellence amongst audiences and artists worldwide.

With an annual three-day festival, spoken in one strange word, QPF also manages the Arts Queensland Val Vallis and Thomas Shapcott poetry prizes as well as the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence program and partners on programs such as the annual Riverbend Poetry Series.

Learn more here.

Start Date: August 24, 2012
End Date: August 26, 2012

Title: The Poetry Route submission deadline

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Description: For a few years now, The Edmonton Poetry Festival has teamed with Edmonton Transit to bring Edmontonians literary beauty on their daily transit commute. The placards on buses and trains have proven to be a great way to get the work of Edmonton poets out to a wider audience.

Get the submission details here.

Date: July 23, 2012

Title: Hay Festival Beirut

Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Description: Hay Festival teams up with Beirut Art Center, British Council, Literature Across Frontiers and other partners to put together a three-day festival with writers, journalists, bloggers and thinkers.

Learn more here.

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

Title: Poetry Parnassus

Location: London, England
Description: From June 26, as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Southbank Centre is hosting a week-long Poetry Parnassus – the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK, bringing together poets from all the competing Olympic nations. Wend your way through each country’s poems using the Guardian’s interactive map.

Start Date: June 26, 2012
End Date: July 1, 2012

Title: Ledbury Poetry Festival

Location: Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
Description: The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Arguably the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 15th year in 2012, it features poets from all over the world. It offers live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family events, street events, a slam and much more.

Learn more here.

Start Date: June 29, 2012
End Date: July 8, 2012

Title: 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize winners announced

Description: The Griffin Poetry Prize International and Canadian winners are announced at a gala awards evening held at the Stone Distillery in Toronto.

Read the 2012 announcement here.

Date: June 7, 2012

Title: 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize readings

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The much anticipated readings by the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted poets is held at beautiful Koerner Hall, Telus Centre for Performance and Learning, part of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. The evening also includes the announcement of the Griffin Lifetime Recognition award recipient.

Read about the 2012 Griffin Lifetime Recognition award recipient, Seamus Heaney.

The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize readings were offered as a livestream, archived here.

Date: June 6, 2012

Title: Dublin Writers Festival

Location: Dublin, Ireland
Description: The Dublin Writers Festival – an initiative of Dublin City Council, supported by the Arts Council – presents annually the masters of international writing and bright emerging voices.

Learn more here.

Start Date: June 4, 2012
End Date: June 10, 2012

Title: Hay Festival Wales

Location: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales
Description: For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking.Hay is, in Bill Clinton’s phrase, ‘The Woodstock of the mind’.

Learn more about the Hay Festival in Wales here.

Start Date: May 31, 2012
End Date: June 10, 2012