Category: International Events

Title: TS Eliot Festival, hosted by The Eliot Society

Date: July 9, 2017

Location: Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, England
Description: The TS Eliot Festival is an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions on the occasion of the centenary of TS Eliot’s first published collection, Prufrock and Other Observations.

The celebrated novelist Ali Smith will read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and discuss it with biographer Adam Begley. Robert Crawford, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at St Andrews University and author of Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, will discuss aspects of Prufrock.

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Title: Skibbereen Arts Festival 2017

Start Date: July 28, 2017
End Date: August 6, 2017

Location: Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
Description: West Cork itself is one of the most beautiful art galleries on the planet. At every turn there are incredible vistas and on every corner you are likely to bump into a practitioner of the arts. The seventh Skibbereen Arts Festival pays homage to this fabric of our community with a programme, that we hope you agree, is pretty amazing!

There will be music, film, theatre and poetry. Literature, exhibitions, symposiums and interventions. Walks, talks, workshops and dance. Family fun days and a spectacular torchlit parade. No matter your age, there truly is something for everyone. We hope you enjoy.

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Title: words(on)stages season finale: Blodwyn Memoria Prize launch

Date: July 20, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: It’s the finale of words(on)stages’ third season and they’re closing it off with a big ol’ bang, featuring three incredible poets, as well as Toronto-based finalists of the 2017 Blodwyn Memorial Prize. They’ve got Kate Hargreaves, Domenica Martinello, and Phoebe Wang gracing the stage, as well as those secret Blodwyn Memorial Prize winners.

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Title: Rattle Poetry Prize submission deadline

Date: July 15, 2017

Description: The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.

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Title: Dead Poets Reading Series

Date: July 9, 2017

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The next Dead Poets reading will take place at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch on July 9th, 2017, from 3-5 PM. The reading will be hosted in the Alice MacKay Room, which is located one floor below the entry concourse. It will feature:

• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 – 2004), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
• bpNichol (1944 – 1988), read by Mallory Tater
• Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967), read by Diane Tucker
• James Tate (1943 – 2015), read by Shaun Robinson
• Miriam Waddington (1917 – 2004), read by Selina Boan

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Title: University of British Columbia (UBC) Adjunct Professor (Poetry) application deadline

Date: July 7, 2017

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver seeks to hire an Adjunct Professor to teach CRWR 401-001: Writing of Poetry 1. The successful candidate will teach poetry writing across a variety of forms. CRWR 401 is a two-hour workshop course, requiring additional office hours, with a maximum enrolment of 14 students. This 3-credit course will be scheduled in the 2017 Winter session, term 1 (September to December 2017)

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Title: Winter Writers Retreat 2018 application deadline

Date: October 11, 2017

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Winter Writers Retreat is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room, which doubles as your private studio, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers. You will have the opportunity to attend inspiring talks and performances and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work.

Writers in all creative genres are invited to apply. The program is designed for emerging and established writers with a proven publication record seeking a period of dedicated time to work on a project in any genre.

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Title: Mountain and Wilderness Writing application deadline

Date: July 12, 2017

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: From climbing Himalayan peaks to scaling the big walls of Yosemite, program participants have canoed across Canada, surfed down the coast of the Baja, cycled the Silk Road, almost perished on Mt. McKinley, and kayaked around Greenland. Their stories share themes of both isolation and comradeship, close encounters with death, and the joy of experiencing rare, remote, and often threatened landscapes. In many projects the focus is as much on the transformative inner journey as it is on the physical accomplishment involved.

Mountain and Wilderness Writing is designed for emerging and established writers seeking a period of dedicated time to work on a project in any genre that explores mountain narratives, wilderness adventures, and environmental writing. All genres—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, history, biography, or memoir—are encouraged to apply.

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Title: Fables for the 21st Century application deadline

Date: August 2, 2017

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Fables for the 21st Century program invites emerging and established Canadian writers to explore and re-imagine our individual and collective identities, through the creation of an anthology of 10 stories.

Emerging and established writers of any genre who wish to create an original short piece for inclusion in the anthology.

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Title: Centering Ourselves – Writing in a Racialized Canada application deadline

Date: July 12, 2017

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: This two-week literary residency nurtures a new frame of contemporary Canadian writing. Increasingly, today’s writer is participating in acts of acknowledgement, reclamation, restoration, and resurgence regarding minority, diasporic, and Indigenous histories. This year, 2017, provides an opportunity to take pause, pivot, and create space to think about these histories, and to write those necessary stories, poems, essays, and novels that speak from an interracial, interethnic, and inter-sectional point of view.

Emerging writers in all creative genres are invited to apply. This program is designed for emerging writers and/or graduate students in creative writing or another humanities program who have a minimum of 20 pages published in trade journals.

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