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Title: The Dodge Poetry Festival
Location: Newark, New Jersey, US
Description: The Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America, will be returning to Newark in the autumn of 2012. The 14th biennial Festival’s lineup of performances and discussions will again transform New Jersey’s largest and most vibrant city into a “poetry village” for four days.
Start Date: October 11, 2012
End Date: October 14, 2012
Title: Manchester Literature Festival
Location: Manchester, England
Description: Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) began trading in 2006 and was built on the legacy of its very successful predecessor, Manchester Poetry Festival. MLF provides unique and imaginative opportunities for audiences to experience high quality live literature via an annual festival format and associated project activities.
Start Date: October 8, 2012
End Date: October 23, 2012
Title: Hay Festival Xalapa
Location: Xalapa, Mexico
Description: Hay Festival & Veracruz join forces to create an extensive programme of events celebrating the best of international culture, a privileged space for thought, dialogue and celebration. Exciting conversations about literature, cinema, journalism, history, science and much more; concerts, theatre and exhibitions; workshops for students by the best writers, film-makers and artists… Hay Festival Xalapa presents the work of the best local, national and international artists in an open and participative context.
Start Date: October 4, 2012
End Date: October 7, 2012
Title: Kingston WritersFest
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Description: Kingston WritersFest was launched in 2006 by a core group of dedicated and hardworking volunteers under the auspices of Kingston Frontenac Public Library and Kingston Literacy.
In 2009, Kingston WritersFest was expanded and revamped to bring the widest range and most exciting programming possible to this community of readers. Still lovingly organized by a corps of book-loving volunteers, the festival now takes its place alongside the best literary celebrations in Canada’s greatest cities.
Start Date: September 26, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
Location: Eden Mills, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival was founded in 1989 and has taken place annually since then. Although it started out as the fulfillment of Governor General Award winner Leon Rooke’s personal vision, the Festival has matured and expanded over the years becoming a nationally acclaimed and widely respected literary event that still maintains a small “footprint.”
Date: September 16, 2012
Title: Hay Festival Nairobi
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Description: Storymoja Hay Festival is a collaboration between Kenyan publishers Storymoja and Hay Festival, to create a forum for sharing great literature, poetry and ideas in the country’s capital, Nairobi.
Start Date: September 14, 2012
End Date: September 16, 2012
Title: Brisbane Writers Festival
Location: South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Description: Brisbane Writers Festival has been celebrating reading, writing and ideas with the people of Queensland for fifty years. Renowned for its energy and casual intellect, BWF brings together readers, writers, innovators, and provocateurs within the cultural precinct on the Brisbane River in the heart of the city.
Start Date: September 5, 2012
End Date: September 9, 2012
Title: Manchester Poetry Prize deadline for entries
Description: Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching the third Manchester Poetry Prize – a major international literary competition celebrating excellence in creative writing.
The Manchester Poetry Prize will award a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best poems submitted. The competition is open internationally to both new and established writers aged 16 or over; there is no upper age limit.
Date: August 31, 2012
Title: Queensland Poetry Festival
Location: South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Description: Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) supports and promotes a poetry culture in Queensland. Established in 1997, QPF is Australia’s finest annual literary event and has an established reputation for excellence amongst audiences and artists worldwide.
With an annual three-day festival, spoken in one strange word, QPF also manages the Arts Queensland Val Vallis and Thomas Shapcott poetry prizes as well as the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence program and partners on programs such as the annual Riverbend Poetry Series.
Start Date: August 24, 2012
End Date: August 26, 2012
Title: The Poetry Route submission deadline
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Description: For a few years now, The Edmonton Poetry Festival has teamed with Edmonton Transit to bring Edmontonians literary beauty on their daily transit commute. The placards on buses and trains have proven to be a great way to get the work of Edmonton poets out to a wider audience.
Get the submission details here.
Date: July 23, 2012