Category: International Events

Title: Poetry Africa

Location: Durban, South Africa
Description: The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the 16th edition of Poetry Africa. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and made possible through principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund. Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 15 to 19 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 20 October. Satellite events take place in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Cape Town before culminating at the main event in Durban.

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Start Date: October 15, 2012
End Date: October 20, 2012

Title: Pushcart Prize nomination deadline

Location: United States
Description: Little magazine and small book press editors (print or online) may make up to six nominations from their year’s publications by the Pushcart Prize December 1, (postmark) deadline. The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot.

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Date: December 1, 2012

Title: Far Horizons Award For Poetry submission deadline

Description: The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites emerging poets from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter the Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Eligible poets have yet to publish their poetry in book form (a book of poetry is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $1000 (CAD) is awarded. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.

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Date: May 1, 2014

Title: Bath Literature Festival

Location: Bath, Somerset, England
Description: The Bath Literature Festival is at the centre of local, national and international debate featuring some of the most intelligent, creative, and cutting edge thinkers alive today.

In its seventeen year history the Literature Festival has hosted Nobel and Booker Prize winners such as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and Howard Jacobson; leading political thinkers from Tony Benn and Tariq Ali to Anna Politkovskaya and Eric Hobsbawm, poets ranging from poets laureate Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy to Wendy Cope and Simon Armitage, and humorists from Garrison Keillor and Terry Pratchett to Steve Bell.

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Start Date: March 1, 2013
End Date: March 10, 2013

Title: John Ashbery attends as Kelly Writers House Fellow for Writers Teaching Writers

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Description: The Kelly Writers House Fellows program makes it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere.

John Ashbery is the February 2013 Kelly Writers House Fellow. He will give a reading on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at 10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation.

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Start Date: February 11, 2013
End Date: February 12, 2013

Title: Scottish Poetry Library presents Nothing But the Poem Redux

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Our reading group where we read and explore poems by a well-known poet – no previous knowledge or experience necessary! And this year we’ve added a twist: at each meeting, we’ll also introduce you to an ‘if you liked this, you might like’ poet whose poems might tickle your fancy. This session is devoted to Kay Ryan.

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Date: December 15, 2012

Title: Book Week Scotland 2012

Location: Scotland
Description: Scottish Book Trust will be running the first Book Week Scotland, a national celebration of books and reading, from 26th November to 2nd December 2012.

During Book Week Scotland they will be working with a wide range of partner organisations, including libraries, schools, museums and workplaces, to deliver a packed programme of free projects and events, bringing Scots of all ages and from all walks of life together to celebrate the pleasures of books and reading.

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Start Date: November 26, 2012
End Date: December 2, 2012

Title: Scottish Poetry Library presents Gifted: The Edinburgh Book Sculptures on Tour 2012

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Of late, no other subject has attracted quite so much interest at the Scottish Poetry Library as that of the mysterious paper sculptures. We will host an exhibition of all 10 sculptures as they reach the end of their Scotland-wide tour, in time for Book Week Scotland. In partnership with Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust.

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Start Date: November 24, 2012
End Date: December 8, 2012

Title: The BMO Winterset Award submission deadline

Location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Description: The BMO Winterset Award was established to honour the memory of Sandra Fraser Gwyn, award-winning social historian who died in Toronto on May 26, 2000. An ardent advocate and promoter of Newfoundland and Labrador culture, she was granted an honorary degree from Memorial University, made a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Hall of Honour, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

The BMO Winterset Award is designed to encourage and promote excellence in all genres of writing. Published literary works, written either by a native-born Newfoundlander and Labradorian, or by a current resident of the province, are eligible. One prize of $10,000, and two prizes of $2,500 are awarded annually.

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Date: December 31, 2012

Title: The Poets’ Theatre: Antigonick with Anne Carson and actors

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Anne Carson returns to the 92Y Poetry Center for a staged reading of her new translation of Sophocles’ famous tragedy, Antigonick.

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Date: November 19, 2012