Category: International Events

Title: Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition submission deadline

Location: United Kingdom
Description: The Book & Pamphlet Competition invites entrants to submit a collection of 20-24 pages of poems for the chance to win a cash prize and publication by Smith/Doorstop Books.

Four first stage winners are selected and given the opportunity to submit a full-length manuscript to the second round of the competition, in which one of them can win book publication. The three first-stage winners receive pamphlet publication.

This year’s judges are Simon Armitage and Ann and Peter Sansom.

Learn more here.

Date: November 29, 2012

Title: Simon Armitage: Walking Home at the Birmingham Book Festival

Location: Birmingham, UK
Description: The Birmingham Book Festival is a collection of events and activities celebrating literature via thought, reading and discussion, in Birmingham, UK.

In summer 2010 poet and writer Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born.

Walking Home is the story of that journey, about facing emotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them. It’s nature writing, but with people at its heart. Contemplative, moving and droll, it is a unique narrative from one of our most beloved writers.

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Date: October 5, 2012

Title: Birmingham Book Festival

Location: Birmingham, UK
Description: The Birmingham Book Festival is a collection of events and activities celebrating literature via thought, reading and discussion, in Birmingham, UK.

In the 14th year of the Festival, events range from the delights of acclaimed writers Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage, Patrick Gale, David Edgar, Femi Oyebode, Tiffany Murray, Peter F Hamilton, Caitlin Moran and Stuart Maconie to the beauty of dramatic poetry performance Being Human and the quiet strangeness of night at the sixth all night writing workshop, at The Locksmith’s House in Willenhall (part of the Black Country Living Museum).

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Start Date: October 4, 2012
End Date: October 13, 2012

Title: The Salt Prizes submission deadline

Description: The Salt Prizes aim to discover and publish the best new writing each year. The Best Individual Poem competition is open to anyone from anywhere in the world.

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Date: October 31, 2012

Title: Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics

Location: Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Description: Poetic discourse in Canada has always been changing to assert poetry’s relevance to the public sphere. While some poets and critics have sought to shift poetic subjects in Canada to make political incursions into public discourses, others have sought changes in poetic form as a means to encourage wider public engagement.

The Public Poetics conference sets out to explore the changing shapes of and responses to poetic genres, aesthetic theories, and political visions from a diverse range of cultural and historical contexts.

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Start Date: September 20, 2012
End Date: September 23, 2012

Title: Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work – The Royal Society of Literature

Location: London, England
Description: The Royal Society of Literature, founded by George IV in 1820, celebrates and nurtures all that is best in British literature, past and present. We organise roughly twenty-four events a year; make awards and grants to established and emerging writers; run regular Masterclasses with the Booker Prize Foundation; and campaign on issues affecting writers, such as the closure of local libraries or reductions in PLR payments.

Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work at this special Royal Society of Literature event.

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Date: November 28, 2012

Title: Wild Writers Literary Festival

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Description: Here’s to the wild ones—the unbridled lovers of the written word, embarking on a journey of discovery and experimentation.

Here’s to the fearless readers and writers who open up new worlds. Who revel in a well-turned phrase and a well-worn page.

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Start Date: November 2, 2012
End Date: November 3, 2012

Title: Saskatoon Public Library Writer in Residence Position application deadline

Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: Applications are invited from Canadian creative writers for the term position of Saskatoon Public Library/Canada Council for the Arts Writer in Residence from September 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014. Criteria are based on Canada Council for the Arts guidelines.

A Writer in Residence program encourages exchanges between the author and the community, and enables the author to work on his or her own writing project.

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Date: November 1, 2012

Title: Women Poets at Barnard – Anne Carson and Alice Oswald

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Since its founding in 1889, Barnard has been a distinguished leader in higher education, offering a rigorous liberal arts foundation to young women whose curiosity, drive, and exuberance set them apart.

In an event co-sponsored by Women Poets at Barnard and the Barnard Humanities Initiative, celebrated poets Anne Carson and Alice Oswald read from their recent works, followed by a reception.

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Date: November 1, 2012

Title: Phil Hall reads at BookFest Windsor

Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Description: Poet Phil Hall reads at BookFest Windsor at 2 pm at the Joy Family Theatre.

BookFest Windsor invites attendees to meet their favorite authors, through readings, panel discussions, book signings and workshops. The festival features books in a variety of genres, including novels, biographies, short stories, poetry, graphic novels and comics.

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Date: October 27, 2012