Category: International Events

Title: Calgary Distinguished Writers Program writer-in-residence application deadline

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Calgary Distinguished Writers Program encourages submissions from promising Canadian writers for the position of Canadian Writer-in-Residence, a ten-month residency at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Arts from August 15, 2014 to June 15, 2015. This is a unique opportunity for early to mid-career Canadian writers to devote their time to writing and to advancing their writing careers. Applications for the position are encouraged from writers from diverse genres—including literary fiction or non-fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and playwriting. Candidates will have one to four published and/or performed works to their credit, and are expected to propose a project or projects that they will undertake during their term as Canadian Writer-in-Residence. They will preferably, but not necessarily, hold a university degree.

Learn more here.

Date: January 31, 2013

Title: 2013 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts nomination deadline

Location: Ontario, Canada
Description: This annual awards program recognizes the outstanding achievements of Ontario’s artists, creative professionals and cultural organizations.

It is open to all art practices and cultural industries including community arts, crafts, dance, music, opera, theatre, visual and media arts, writing, book and magazine publishing, digital media, film, television and sound recording.

Learn more here.

Date: December 3, 2012

Title: Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth submission deadline

Location: Canada
Description: The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth. There are two age categories, junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12).

First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize:

Winners: $350
Second Place: $300
Third Place: $250

Learn more here.

Date: January 15, 2013

Title: A Tribute to Louise Gluck

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: In celebration of former Academy of American Poets Chancellor Louise Glück’s Poems 1962-2012, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Ecco Press this fall, poets Frank Bidart, Dana Levin, Robert Pinsky, Peter Streckfus, and Ellen Bryant Voigt join Glück on stage to read selections of her work.

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Date: December 14, 2012

Title: Ontario International Poetry Slam 2012

Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Description: Guelph Spoken Word proudly launches this November its inaugural spoken word event, the Ontario International Poetry Slam! This single-day, all-day competition is unlike any other in the world, featuring: top-notch local, national, and international talent; a professional two-stage venue; edgy new custom slam rules; incredible one-day intensity; and absolutely massive cash prizes!

Learn more here.

Date: November 10, 2012

Title: The Really, Really Boring Poetry Event

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library has the right idea …

You’ve been forced to read them at school. You’ve nodded off during them at readings. We’re going to have a good look at boring poems, and find out if they really are loathsome. Bring along a poem that sends you to sleep, and join us for a glass of wine while we read, discuss and maybe find a thing or two to like about boring poems.

Learn more here.

Date: December 11, 2012

Title: November for Beginners, a poem by Rita Dove

Description: This is one of the best days on the calendar to consider Rita Dove’s poem “November for Beginners”. Read it here.
Date: November 21, 2012

Title: Master Class on Revision and Close Reading with Fanny Howe

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Winner of the Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry, Fanny Howe has written numerous books of prose and poetry, most recently Come and See. She has won the Lenore Marshall Award, the Commonwealth of California Award and is professor of writing emerita at the University of California, San Diego.

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Start Date: November 10, 2012
End Date: November 11, 2012

Title: August Kleinzahler discusses nature, practice of poetry

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: As part of his Gould Fellowship at Claremont McKenna College, August Kleinzahler will discuss the nature and practice of poetry in a public talk. This event will provide an opportunity for the general public to engage with a writer once described as a mixture of Allen Ginsberg combined with “Norman Mailer’s inveterate pugnacity.”

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Date: November 7, 2012

Title: Poetry Seminar with August Kleinzahler

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: August Kleinzahler brings his often provocative understanding of the craft of poetry to the Claremont McKenna College during a month-long residency under the auspices of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. His visit to campus includes a regular weekly seminar, Oct. 30-Nov.27, with interested students titled “Speed, Compression, Kablooey: Paris, New York and the New Poetries.”

Learn more here.

Date: November 27, 2012