Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: The Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice voting closes
Location: Canada
Description: The Walrus Poetry Prize offers prizes of $5,000 and $1,000 respectively for poems that win juried and readers’ choice competitions.
Learn more here and vote for the Readers’ Choice here.
Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Poetry off the Shelf: Red, White & Blue: Poets on Politics
Location: Chicago, Illnois, US
Description: Part of a national series, this program explores the role of politics in the literary landscape today. Poets Suji Kwock Kim, Li-Young Lee and D. Nurske will take part, and Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America, will moderate.
Learn more here.
Date: September 27, 2012
Title: Brooklyn Book Festival
Location: Brooklyn, New York, US
Description: The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012
Title: Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Description: In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
Learn more here.
Start Date: September 21, 2012
End Date: September 29, 2012
Title: The Malahat Review’s Twitter Monostich Contest deadline
Location: Canada
Description: Send your one-line, 140 character (or less) poems to The Malahat Review via Twitter @malahatreview. Enter as many times as you like, but each monostich must only be tweeted once for the duration of the contest. Winners receive a prize of a free subscription to Plenitude magazine and four new books (donated by Canadian publishers).
Learn more here.
Date: September 10, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Vancouver
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Start Date: September 28, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Lethbridge
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Saskatoon
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Kitchener
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Halifax
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012