Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient to be announced
Date: October 11, 2017
Description: The trustees of the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry are happy to advise that the next Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient will be announced on Wednesday, October 11, 2017. The Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient will attend the Shortlist Readings on June 6, 2018.
Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LV
Date: September 26, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it. Please spread the word through social media and other means. Let our event become as diverse as we are.
Host of the evening is Bänoo Zan, and the featured poets are Janet Marie Rogers and Cole Forrest.
Title: Johnstone, Neilson, Hoogland and Banks at knife | fork | book
Date: December 7, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: All knife | fork | book readings events happen Thursday evenings (unless otherwise noted). Doors open at 6:30 pm at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington Market. This event features readings by Jim Johnstone, Shane Neilson, Cornelia Hoogland and Chris Banks.
Title: Peerbaye, Principe and Davis at knife | fork | book
Date: December 14, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: All knife | fork | book readings events happen Thursday evenings (unless otherwise noted). Doors open at 6:30 pm at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington Market. This event features readings by Soraya Peerbaye, Concetta Principe and Jack Davis.
Title: Poetry and Place with Rachel McCrum
Date: August 30, 2017
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Rachel McCrum’s first full collection, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate, offers poems which are rooted in place and landscape. Join McCrum for a reading as she returns to Scotland for the collection’s launch. She’ll discuss how place, whether inhabited or longed for, can inform and effect poetry.
Title: The Word On the Street – Halifax
Date: September 16, 2017
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description: Since 1990, The Word On The Street has proudly hosted the finest talent in Canadian literature. The next festival in Halifax is shaping up to be another great one. Check out the authors and artists appearing this year.
Title: The Word On the Street – Saskatoon
Date: September 24, 2017
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: Since 2011, The Word On The Street Saskatoon has proudly hosted a wide and diverse range of literary talent from across Canada. Their seventh annual festival is shaping up to be another great one. Check out the authors and artists appearing this year!
Title: The Word On the Street – Lethbridge
Date: September 23, 2017
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Description: Since 2011, The Word On The Street Lethbridge has proudly hosted a wide and diverse range of literary talent from across Canada. Their seventh annual festival is shaping up to be another great one. Check out the authors and artists appearing this year!
Title: The Word On the Street – Toronto
Date: September 24, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Since 1990, The Word On The Street has proudly hosted the finest talent in Canadian literature. Check out the lineup of authors and artists who will appear at the 28th festival on Sunday, September 24, 2017.
Title: Vancouver Writers Fest
Start Date: October 16, 2017
End Date: October 22, 2017
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Words shape our worlds. They can delight, inspire, provoke, comfort and unite—as do the authors, journalists and poets who wield them. At the Vancouver Writers Fest, readers of all ages are encouraged to explore the power of storytelling, and books, through our dozens of events with local and international writers.
This edition of the Vancouver Writers Fest includes appearances by Margaret Atwood, Jan Zwicky, Eileen Myles and many more.