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Title: The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 winner announced
Start Date: June 26, 2017
End Date: June 30, 2017
Description: The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 will be £5,000. In addition the winner will be invited to read at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University for the annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry, provided with travel, accommodation, and an honorarium.
Title: Live Canon International Poetry Competition submission deadline
Date: July 1, 2017
Description: Entries are open for the Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £1000 for a single poem. Poet Clare Pollard is the guest judge.
50 poems will be longlisted and published in Live Canon’s 2017 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live Canon ensemble at their prize giving event at Greenwich Theatre. 1 poem will receive a winning prize of 1000 pounds. There is also a 100 pound prize for the highest placed entry by a poet living, studying or working in the London Borough of Greenwich.
Title: Izsak, Howell and Wareness at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: July 4, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Art Bar is recognized as Canada’s longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.
This week’s offering features Emily Izsak, Stevie Howell and Noah Wareness.
Title: Pitts, Balevi and Stones at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: June 27, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Art Bar is recognized as Canada’s longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.
This week’s offering features Brandon Pitts, Ariel Balevi and David Stones.
Title: Saskatchewan Festival of Words
Start Date: July 13, 2017
End Date: July 16, 2017
Location: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: The Saskatchewan Festival of Words (established in 1996) is a registered charity and non-profit organization that holds an annual literary festival the third weekend in July with over 50 events over 4 days in and around historic downtown Moose Jaw. The festival showcases literary talent from all over Canada including many award winners. Over the 4 days of the festival they have workshops for all ages, reading sessions, concerts, film, panel discussions, interviews, music, theatre, and even a slam poetry competition.
Title: An Evening of Poetry with the Hornets
Date: June 9, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: The Hornets are a working group of 10 poets, Alex Berry, Ruth Brock, Sue Chamberlain, Naomi Crosby, Eve Ellis, Ceri Hunter, Karen Littleton, Miranda Peake, Meg Rumbelow Hemsley and Susanna Steele. Join them upstairs at The Betsey Trotwood in London, to hear the latest poetry from the Hornet Press collective.
Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LII
Date: June 27, 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 Bunny Iskov and Takatsu.
Title: Vallum Award for Poetry 2017 submission deadline
Date: July 15, 2017
Description: Vallum is accepting original and previously unpublished poetry submissions for the Vallum Award for Poetry 2017.
The judge this year is Nicole Brossard. An important voice in poetry over the last 40 years, she has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and has twice won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. In 2016 she won a Pushcart Prize for poems published in Vallum, which were excerpted from her Vallum chapbook A Tilt in the Wondering.
Title: League of Canadian Poets’ 2017 awards announced
Date: June 10, 2017
Description: On June 10th at an awards ceremony in Toronto, the League of Canadian Poets will announce winners of the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, the Raymond Souster Award and, together with the Calgary Spoken Word Society, the finalists for the 2017 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award.
Title: League of Canadian Poets’ 2017 AGM and Conference
Start Date: June 9, 2017
End Date: June 11, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The League is excited to have its annual awards celebration, feminist caucus programming, members-only events and much, much more. The League’s annual conference is proud to have events each year that are open to the public. These events are of interest to writers, poets, publishing professionals, and patrons of the arts.