Category: International Events

July 11, 2017

Bookstock Literary Festival

Title: Bookstock Literary Festival

Start Date: July 28, 2017
End Date: July 30, 2017

Location: Woodstock, Vermont, US
Description: Bookstock supports the cultural richness and diversity of the Upper Valley and celebrates authors and poets, both established and emerging, from our region. New England is home to many talented writers representing diverse genres, from national Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to emerging young writers and those who have found their compelling voice at midlife. Bookstock encourages appreciation for good writing and other artistic endeavors by introducing residents and visitors of all ages to writers, musicians and artists in an intimate setting.

July 11, 2017

Launch of Arc Poetry Magazine 83

Title: Launch of Arc Poetry Magazine 83

Date: July 15, 2017

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: Come out for the launch of Arc Poetry Magazine issue 83 with readings by Kayla Czaga, Deanna Young, Mike Blouin and Karen Massey.

Alice James Award submission deadline

Title: Alice James Award submission deadline

Date: November 1, 2017

Location: United States
Description: The winner of the Alice James Award (formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award) receives $2000, book publication, and distribution through Consortium. The winner will also receive a $1000 honorarium and give a reading at the University of Maine at Farmington. In addition to the winning manuscript, one or more additional manuscripts may be chosen for publication as the Editor’s Choice.

Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence application deadline

Title: Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence application deadline

Date: July 31, 2017

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence program is a residency for Canadian writers. Wilfrid Laurier University offers both shorter, “intensive” residency opportunities and longer residencies, depending on available funds and local planning initiatives from year to year. All Canadian writers of established literary reputation in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or drama are encouraged to apply.

Melbourne 2017 Writers Festival

Title: Melbourne 2017 Writers Festival

Start Date: August 25, 2017
End Date: September 3, 2017

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Description: For more than three decades, Melbourne Writers Festival has been bringing together the talent and ideas of the best writers from Australia and around the world, to create a unique moment in time which is the highlight of Melbourne’s literary calendar.

Lit POP 2017 submission deadline

Title: Lit POP 2017 submission deadline

Date: July 31, 2017

Description: The POP Montreal International Music Festival and Matrix Magazine have teamed up for the tenth consecutive year to bring you the most innovative and exciting literary competition on Earth. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary by opening up submissions to Europe and featuring one of fiction’s rising stars and an iconic poetry legend as judges. They are looking for your best stories and poems. Winners will have their work published in Matrix, and receive free travel to POP Montreal for a night in their honour.

This year’s judges are Saleema Nawaz (Fiction) and Eileen Myles (Poetry).

Greenbelt

Title: Greenbelt

Start Date: August 25, 2017
End Date: August 28, 2017

Location: Kettering, England
Description: Greenbelt is a festival of arts, faith and justice. The best you’ve never heard of. Greenbelt saw its first edition way back in 1974 and has hosted its annual festival every single year since. But thinking of Greenbelt as just another ‘festival’ doesn’t do it justice. It is also an idea, a way of seeing, a gathering of the clans – part movement, part moment. Its genius is that it defies easy description. You have to be there.

Forms and Features at Comfort Station: Eclogue

Title: Forms and Features at Comfort Station: Eclogue

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In July, they examine the eclogue, a short dialogue or soliloquy that most often takes a pastoral theme.

The group will read and discuss a wide variety of eclogues. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing original eclogues, will conclude the session. No RSVP required.

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Date: July 10, 2017

Launch: The Cafe Review, Scottish Poetry Edition

Title: Launch: The Cafe Review, Scottish Poetry Edition

Date: July 28, 2017

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Blackwell’s Bookshop is delighted to host the launch of a bumper Scottish edition of The Café Press, an American poetry journal. Guest edited by Edinburgh Makar Christine de Luca, their Scottish Poetry Issue is a triumphant celebration of the fine variety of voices Scotland has to offer.