Category: International Events

Title: The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry submission deadline

Date: December 31, 2017

Description: Winning manuscripts are issued in both hardback and paperback editions and authors receive royalties on sales in addition to the cash award of $2,000. Each entrant will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Tampa Review (mailed to any U.S. address; mailing outside U.S. can be arranged with a supplementary postage fee). The manuscripts by TR Prize winners represent a range from first books to new titles by well-published poets.

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Title: Dorset Prize 2018 submission deadline

Date: December 31, 2017

Description: The Dorset Prize is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. The winner receives a $3,000 cash prize and a week-long residency at MASS MoCA worth $1,500 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 20 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. Manuscripts are judged anonymously and all finalists will be considered for publication.

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Title: Griffin Poetry Prize helps celebrate 49th Shelf’s 12 Days of Bookness

Date: December 14, 2017

Location: Canada
Description: From December 4 to 15, you could win some of 2017’s biggest books — shortlisted and prize-winning books from Canada’s major literary awards! We’re talking major fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, YA, mystery, poetry, and cookbook award winners — something for absolutely everyone on your list – or for you!

Each day, 49th Shelf will open a different prize pack. On December 14th, the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist will be showcased. You have one day to enter for a chance to win all the books associated with that prize. The next day, come back, and you get another chance to win the next prize pack!

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Title: 49th Shelf’s 12 Days of Bookness

Start Date: December 4, 2017
End Date: December 15, 2017

Location: Canada
Description: From December 4 to 15, you could win some of 2017’s biggest books — shortlisted and prize-winning books from Canada’s major literary awards! We’re talking major fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, YA, mystery, poetry, and cookbook award winners — something for absolutely everyone on your list – or for you!

Each day, 49th Shelf will open a different prize pack. On December 14th, the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist will be showcased. You have one day to enter for a chance to win all the books associated with that prize. The next day, come back, and you get another chance to win the next prize pack!

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Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LVIII

Date: December 19, 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 Lisa Richter and George Elliott Clarke.

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Title: The Banff Centre Writing Studio application deadline

Date: January 24, 2018

Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: An ideal environment for artistic inspiration and growth, Writing Studio is structured to provide an extended period of uninterrupted writing time, one-on-one editorial assistance from experienced writers/editors, and an opportunity to engage with a community of working writers. Faculty for this session, which runs April 30 to June 2, 2018 includes Karen Solie, David O’Meara, Hoa Nguyen, Shyam Selvadurai and Kathy Page.

The application deadline has been extended to February 7, 2018.

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Title: Literature Salon: Anne Michaels – An Intimate Evening

Date: November 14, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Literature section of the Heliconian Club Salon Series is honoured to host a salon with one of our country’s bona fide literary luminaries. Anne Michaels, Toronto’s current Poet Laureate, is the author of two highly acclaimed novels and several books of poetry and has won several prestigious awards. Enjoy this rare chance to meet the author in a warm setting.

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Title: The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King

Date: November 11, 2017

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom / online
Description: Join Newscastle University live from King’s Hall for the launch of “The Mighty Stream” a poetry anthology celebrating Martin Luther King.

The event features readings by poets from both sides of the Atlantic featured in the anthology, including Fred D’Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, Sarah Howe, Major Jackson and Jackie Kay.

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Title: Palm Beach Poetry Festival

Start Date: January 15, 2018
End Date: January 20, 2018

Location: Delray Beach, Florida, US
Description: The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the writing, reading, performance, and appreciation of poetry – by presenting an annual festival and other poetry events in Palm Beach County – featuring America’s finest poets.

The 14th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be presented in loving memory of Thomas Lux. The festival’s special guest, poet Coleman Barks, will be interviewed by Chard deNiord and featured at the Annual Gala Reading. Conference faculty this year includes Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Nickole Brown and Lorna Knowles Blake.

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Title: Library Book Club: Tracy K Smith

Date: November 10, 2017

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: All experience levels are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we read and discuss Life on Mars by the new United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Space is limited to 15 participants.

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